1967

1967

1963-1970

Bill White’s fondest memory of the 1950s was at age 10, when “my father introduced me to tennis, a game he loved dearly.” Joe Alviani recalls “beaming with pride” watching his father up on the dais introducing Sen. John F. Kennedy. Michael Wilson remembers his entire class “watching Gen. Eisenhower’s inauguration on television in my living room.” Bill Adams recalls fondly “my football and basketball teammates.” Gary Atkins got hooked after his “first airplane ride in 1956,” and John Lobitz “got to sit in the pilot’s seat wearing his golden wings pin.” John Bash was in Cuba when Castro took over and “observed the celebrating, looting, and rioting,” while John Manopoli was in Saigon riding his “bicycle everywhere, including to the bar for pinball.” Tad Campion remembers “1956 and everyone going wild over Elvis!” Imagine Bruce Miller wearing his “Chicago flattop ducktail held tight with butch wax, listening to Bill Haley & the Comets.” At 12, Al Hine “drove a big, honking John Deere farm tractor on my great-uncle’s dairy farm.” Bill Kirkpatrick recalls “my first kiss, in the hallway after school.” John Rhead says, “I may almost be over Patty at this point,” while Mike Gfroerer says, “that girl in seventh grade ended up becoming my wife, Eileen!” Bruce Pacht remembers “lying around in a sea of comics reading and reading for hours.” Bob Reid recalls “trying to impress a girl by chugging a quart of water. She wasn’t impressed, but practice led me to the Alpha Delta house.” In the summer of’55 Chris Smith and his dad “picked up a new Olds ’98 convertible at the assembly line and drove home to Iowa,” while Jeff Zimmerman remembers the “1956 family trip from Baltimore to the Grand Canyon in a’53 Buick.”Read all their stories at 1967.dartmouth.org!

—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339; 1967damnotes@gmail.com

Larry Langford