1969

1969

For the next several columns I will start by reminding you all of the importance of our upcoming 50th reunion and the many interesting items about the class, your classmates and the planning progress toward that event available to you on the ’69 website. Please visit www.dartmouth69.org, register your intent to attend and check out those who have already indicated they will be in Hanover in June of 2019. Norman Jacobs reported onthe mini-reunionfor Dartmouth-Brown football at Fenway. Twenty people gathered for apregame dinner at the Lansdowne Pub next to Fenway Park: Ann and Mark Bankoff, Delly and Peter Beekman. Karen and Clark Doran, Hilary and Dick Glovsky, Meg and Clint Harris, Mike and Dona Heller, Paul Tuhus, Pat, Bay and Frank Wille, Joan and Rick Willets and Norman with Irene. Following dinner the group moved to Fenway to watch Dartmouth beat Brown. The most repeated comment about the game was: “It was cold.” Leaving Canada to visit relatives in Ohio, David Prentice had the opportunity to spend time with Nick North and encourage him to sign up for our 50th. In the same vein ofvisiting old friends, Dud Kay wrote an article forthe webpage describing his interaction with some Phoenix fraternity brothers at Homecoming. A brief version ofthat gathering is that Dud discovered some bros hidden in the crowd at the football game, including Dave Maier and Paul Sindelar. He also met Skip Auten post game at the Hanover Inn bar. During the summer, on his way to the Mets mini, he and Jill stopped and picked up Peter Schenck and Marion, spending the night with them before they all continued onto the Mets game.

Our mini-reunion chair Arthur Fergenson had his own mini when he attended a performance of Farinelli and the King at the Belasco Theater on Broadway with George Stauffer and their wives. George is still dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The two are fraternity brothers of Foley House. Phil Bush provided an article on the Polka Dot Diner, which has not served an early morning, post-party breakfast to hungry students since 2015. The town is trying to place the building on the National Register of Historic Places. If successful there is no word on whether we will be able to dine there during our 50th reunion return, but we can always hope!

While communicating with Bruce Hamilton about our postgraduate activities in San Francisco, he mentioned that I was not the only ’69 attending Hastings Law School in the fall of1969. Jim Sheldon not only attended but graduated, unlike my one day, which convinced me it was not where I belonged. Had I known then, I could have crashed on his floor instead of the YMCA and the Hotel Arlington in the Tenderloin while I was looking for work. Please keep sending information about your activities to Peter Elias for the website, Allen Denison for the newsletter and me.

—Steve Larson, 837 Wildcat Trail, 10328 Big Canoe, Big Canoe, GA 30143; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com