1964

1964

Our Zoom session of August 17 brought together some 23 stalwarts to talk about travels both in the past and upcoming. A surprisingly large number of classmates mentioned mountain climbing— from New England (Hunt Whitacre to name but one) to Africa and Asia (Tim Brooks who did a 20,000-foot climb in Nepal). Howard Soroos told us about the six solar eclipses he has observed on his travels, Lou Goodman about traveling in China. Chuck Marsh told us about his December 2018 trip to Antarctica (“Yes, it is cold, but the adventure is well worth it”). Don Mutterperl tied in his traveling with ski trips in the good old USA, where he unsurprisingly encountered other Dartmouth classmates. Ben Koehler mentioned traveling to New Zealand. Dave Hope talked about his oneway circumnavigation of the world on Delta Airlines as well as three trips to Vietnam during his service there. Steve Thompson told us about his three-month tour of Europe and that reminded others during this session of similar exploits after our Dartmouth careers, including Lee Chilcote, who briefly reprised his several travels in Europe through the decades. Hunt Whitacre added that trips to the various presidential libraries across the country are worth making. As to future travels, Gus Buchtel showed us some pictures of a 13,000-foot peak in the Wind River Mountain range in Wyoming that his father climbed in the early 1930s and that Gus is planning to climb later this year. (Good luck, Gus, and be safe!) No doubt most of us will be traveling in the future, health and physical limitations notwithstanding. Also see our classmates’ more detailed postings on our class of 1964 Facebook page, including a recording of the most recent 60-minute Zoom session conducted by your class secretaries. We also need to mention the latest newsletter from Tom Seymour that provides much more detail on activities of classmates that we only mention here. Lastly, let’s keep going with our project to aid Ukrainian refugees in Romania. Funds given to Maria, Andi, and Larry Laster total more than $30,000 as of this writing. The easy-to-use link for monetary contributions iswww.paypal.com/ paypalme/RCCAMENA. It is as simple as that, and our funds go securely via PayPal directly to the Rotary Club in Piatra Neamt. Best regards.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodrnan@kaufcan.com