1963

1963

A seemingly simple question emailed by Alumni Council representative Bob Bysshe to the class executive committee on May 31 at 11:48 p.m. stirred riveting dialogue during the ensuing 24-plus hours. The question from Rick Asher, professor of art history at University of Minnesota, asked in effect, whether the Dartmouth Bible was required reading in our freshman year.

Easy? Yes, if you were required to take English I, like me and others. But for some classmates it was more complicated. “Even though I have a Dartmouth Bible, I do not remember ever using it for any course,” Dave Schaefer, our unofficial class historian, responded. “I remember it well. It was part of a required freshman English course,” wrote the Rev. Ken Kvistad. “I personally found it very confusing and giving a very distorted biblical perspective.”

Bob Chavey, Tom Kraig and Dan Muchinsky agreed the Dartmouth Bible was required in English I. Marty Bowne remembers only Chaucer in his class; Tom Jester believes everyone had to take English I, while George Hellickthinks he used the Dartmouth Bible for Religion I. Jim Clouser and Rick Asher discovered they were in the same English I class and the last word arrived Friday, June 2, at 1:14 a.m. from Steve Brenner, who, we hope, was not pulling an all-nighter. “Thanks to Dan Muchinsky,” Steve wrote, “for providing an honorable rationale for my fading brain’s failure to remember the Dartmouth Bible.”

You can stimulate your brain and share your memories with classmates at Homecoming mini-reunion in Hanover October 6-8, featuring dinners, parties and the game against Yale. For more information, contact Sam Cabot, scabot@ me.com, (978) 927-2333 or Dan Muchinsky, dmuchinsky@earthlink.net, (603) 469-3593.

Mike Cardozo, who served as deputy counsel to President Jimmy Carter, was quoted in The New York Times on potential benefits President Trump’s renewal of the EB-5 visa program will bring to Kushner Cos. EB-5 offers permanent residence to affluent foreigners who invest in real estate projects and is a cheap source of money for project owners. “It’s just one more dilemma that a family with vast commercial interest has when relatives are in the federal government, particularly the White House,” said Mike, whose Carter administration had problems related to the president’s brother, Billy.

Lee Bateman retired from private medical practice in Port Jefferson, New York, while working part-time at the Stony Brook University Student Health Services. Lee recently spent “a wonderful day” with Jim Leavitt visiting from Hawaii. “We played golf and had a nice dinner,” said Lee. “His daughter, Jocelyn, and my son, Brad, are friends and live in Brooklyn, New York, so we all get together on occasion.”

Brooklyn is where I live, a block from Frank and Lisa Wohl. Recently Frank started walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and then picking up the subway to Lankier Siffert & Wohl, his 35-yearold commercial, regulatory and white-collar criminal law firm. After j oining him once, I have two words—magnificent and exhilarating—and the exercise is good too. Go, Dartmouth.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com