1966

1966

Sadly, Terry Lowd passed away on July 29. “Terry was not only one of our finest class leaders,” wrote current class president John Rollins, “but also a good friend who was always available to lend a hand.” For 50 years Terry served on class committees or tackled important jobs, including class president and agent and Alumni Council rep. He will be sorely missed.

I continue to share responses from classmates about what they are most thankful for. Mark Budnitz, professor of law emeritus at Georgia State University, is thankful for his wife, Paula, “who will always be my high school sweetheart”; children Dan, Judy, and Jessica; his dad, a class of 1922 “who did not pressure me to go to Dartmouth”; his “rewarding jobs my entire legal career”; and “to be still in frequent contact with some of my best friends from Dartmouth.”

“I bet every one of us has come to appreciate the many blessings and good luck that we have enjoyed through the years,” writes Dr. Jeff Brown, a geriatric medicine specialist in Menlo Park, California. “As our Class Notes draw toward the beginning of the section month by month, remember, ‘Aging is fine, but it comes at such an inconvenient time.’ ” Jeff is also a talented and prolific artist. Check out his work at jeffcontemporaryoils.com.

“I’m most thankful for my family, my health, and my good fortune to have attended Dartmouth and been born in this great country,” writes 38year and 13-country Foreign Service veteran Jim Cason from Coral Gables, Florida, where he recently served as a three-term mayor before “really retiring.” For Jim that means helping the American Flood Coalition educate municipalities about the threat of sea-level rise and spending more time with Carmen (50th anniversary this past September!) and his six grandchildren.

Read worthy classmate books: Bob Carter’s history of the world through Dartmouth eyes is available at TheWheelerDealers.com. Tom Brady used the Covid lockdown to write three books about his entrepreneurial engineering career, at BookBaby.com.

Our sympathies to the family and friends of Rich Morrissey, a renaissance man who passed away in Montana in June.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com