1966

1966

Pete Barber died peacefully on December 22, 2022, at Boston’s Roxbury VA Hospital, his wife, Mary, and family at his side. It was nearly 54 years ago, in March 1969, that Pete was carrying his company’s radio equipment on a besieged hilltop near Con Them, Vietnam, when a Viet Cong mortar shell exploded right behind him. It severed his spinal cord and altered the course of his life.

Pete, a three-year varsity soccer and baseball standout, won the 1966 Watson Trophy for best athlete in our class and was inducted into Wearers of the Green (2009). Throughout his long and productive life, Pete’s courage, determination, humor, honesty, and humility were an inspiration to his many Dartmouth friends across the classes and around the world. He will be missed by many. May Pete’s memory be a blessing.

“By far and away,” writes Jeff Fuller. “I’m most happy and grateful for the health and happiness of all of us, recognizing that it can change in a split second.” Jeff had a busy 2022, chairing his 60th reunion from Port Washington (New York) High School and winning some 55-andover tennis tournaments. He and Susie also kept busy traveling to visit just-graduated or graduating college daughters Jillian, Claire, and Allison.

Chuck Forester has a lot to be thankful for, and he chronicles many of his blessings in his newly published autobiography, I Throw Like a Girl, described on the Barnes & Noble site as “his life-changing journey from a lonely and suppressed gay boy in 1950s Wisconsin to his eye-popping 1971 arrival in San Francisco’s Castro, where he finds community and empowerment to live his life as a proud, out gay man for the first time.”

Filmmaker Charlie Stuart has produced dozens of timely and topical award-winning documentaries during the past 30 years. His latest, on immigration, was screened outside at Kennedy Center last August.

Can you top this? Lifelong Mainer Lance Tapley has been a prolific investigative journalist, reporter, and author for decades. Lance and Peggy have also produced four sons, all of whom have graduated from Dartmouth: Isaac ’92, Asa and Adam ’03s, and Elias ’09. Wow!

Our sympathies to the family and friends of Edgar Holley and Daniel Yocum who recently

passed. Find obits on the DAM website.

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

Larry Geiger