1971

1971

In April classmates were treated to a new mini location in Austin, Texas. Thirty-five members of the class of ’71 and their guests enjoyed wonderful Texas hospitality courtesy of hosts Ted and Betsy Eismeier and Joe and Ann Daly.

On the wide-ranging menu of activities were a welcome cocktail party; music and dancing at the famous Broken Spoke; golf; hiking, biking, kayaking, and paddle boarding on Lady Bird Lake; shopping on South Congress Avenue; and a closing dinner (with music) at Austin’s Onion Creek Club. Down home cooking, lots of great BBQ, wonderful conversations, and private docent tours of the LBJ Presidential Library and the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center conducted by our own Professor Eismeier rounded out our long list of activities.

Many of us explored the city but weather curtailed our plans to watch the daily bat flyover on the river. Austin is an amazing city—the 11th largest in the United States and growing both outward and upward!

Never a group to let grass grow beneath its feet, the ’71s were on the road again this spring for get-togethers. Seventeen classmates and significant others accepted the invitatio n to a river party at Mark and Carol Bellonby’s waterfront home on Mason Neck, Virginia.

Highlights included a boat cruise from Mark’s dock to George Washington’shome, Mount Vernon, a beautiful Italian-themed dinner, and tremendous ’ 71 camaraderie as we p rep are d fo r Dartmo uth Homecoming with a 7-foot, 1-inch bonfire on Mark’s beach. Peter Pratt and David Aylward were planning to run 71 laps around the bonfire, but rain interrupted their athletic feat (thank God!).

We took a hiatus from the Nantucket, Massachusetts, mini-reunion this year but will offer plenty of travel opportunities in 2024: Naples, Florida, in March; Charlottesville, Virginia, in May; and a trans-Canadian train trip with preand post-activities in June. Timely details with costs, booking information, and contacts will be posted on our class website. It’s never too early to start planning!

Bob Cordy has kindly accepted the board’s nod to become our new representative to the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Many thanks to Steve Hoverman for his service.

We are looking forward to a great Homecoming in October, the first opportunity for many of us to welcome President Sian Beilock, 19th president of Dartmouth, to Hanover.

I regret to inform the class of the passing of Mark L. Bardo on March 2; Malcolm L. Jones on July 17; and Gordon B. Flint Jr. on July 28. Memorials will appear online at Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

The “Age to Engage” is here! Go to dartmouth71.org and click on class engagement to see what’s up.

—Alice Reno Malone, 834 Colridge Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22903; tammyarm@aol.com