1960 NEWSLETTER President: Bruce Hasenkamp, 2435 Skyfarm Drive, Hillsborough, CA 94010-6343 (650) 343-6829 bhasenkamp60@gmail.orgVice President: Dudley Smith, 12 Sandy Brae, PO Box 1335, Grantham, NH 03753 (603)-863-8856 djsmith37@comcast.netSecretary: John Mitchell, 300 Grove Street, Unit 14, Rutland, VT 05701; (802) 775-3716 jmm00033@comcast.netTreasurer: William Moorman, P.O. Box 6605, Jefferson City, MO 65102-6605; (573) 462-0009 bmoorman60@gmail.comCo-Head Agents: Kenneth Johansen, 1783 Bartlett Ave., Orange Park, FL 32073 (H) (904) 264-2078; (C) (904) 214-5522 Jim Adler, P.O. Box 1653, Norwich, VT 05055, (802) 649-1008; Phil Kron MLBKPCK@aol.com Gift Planning: Phil Kron, 127 Riveredge Drive, Chatham, NJ 07928-3116, phone (772) 631-3766 MLBKPCK@aol.comAlumni Council Representative: Bruce Clark, 35 Alan Rd., Danbury, CT 06810 (203) 207-0037 campbruce89@gmail.comClass Webmaster: Walter E. Daniels, 2802 Deer Street, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547-2000 (914) 245-1250 wdhikes@gmail.comNewsletter Editor: Dennis Goodman, 472 Hanover Center Rd., Etna, NH 03750 (603) 643-9763 goodman@sover.net

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Looking Forward to Mud, a Little Canadiana, and Homecoming’s Coming and our 55th, too; also, Plaid Clad Gun Nuts, Liberal and Proud of It, and Non Illegitimi Carborundum (or Something)

Margie Long, Roger and Ann Hanlon, John Goyette, Linda and Rick Roesch,’60s All

September, 2014

Two events for your calendars: Homecoming is October 17-19. Our 55th Reunion is June 15-18, 2015. Good weather and good company guaran-teed for both. Save the dates. Start planning.Bob Kenerson does a truly magnificent job of keeping tabs on our Class Scholars, of whom we

currently have five at the College. He is surely something of an unsung hero for his work on this. Here is the information he recently provided on two of “his” students:

Kenerson, Unsung Hero

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Justine Obr ’17: Justine is from Fourqueux, France and attended the Lycee de St Germaine en Laye. Parents are native born Americans who have lived in Europe for many years. Justine speaks French and English equally well, is fluent in Spanish and was named to the National French Women’s Figure Skating Team. She was an honor student who chose to take Spanish 6 her first semester, as well as Ecriture, advanced creative writing in French. She also elected a course, Global Sounds, in the music department. Jocelyn Shyong ’16: Jocelyn is from San Jose, California, but her parents are both from Taiwan. She is planning to major in chemistry and in en-gineering sciences, and to go to graduate school in chemical engineering. She took a computer programming class at Thayer during her freshman year. Jocelyn started a research internship in the spring of her freshman year which proved very exciting. She synthesized her first peptide as part of the goal of a drug discovery. Here is Justine Obr’s most recent communication to Bob: “My freshman year has been fantastic-- I can’t believe it’s almost over! In the winter term, I took an International Development class that has encouraged me to pursue a Geography major. I am on my way to completing the Spanish minor, taking Spanish 20 this term, and I recently found out that I was selected to participate in the Spanish foreign study program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next spring. I can’t wait to go! I am also currently taking a Computer Science introductory course that I find fascinating, even if it is quite outside of my usual areas of study, and a Biology class as my first-year seminar.“This spring, the Figure Skating Team traveled to Adrian, Michigan, for Intercollegiate Nationals, and we [took] third place! I participated in a team event in which we also took bronze, and in an in-dividual event that I won. Now, the skating season is over and I am able to spend some time outside to enjoy the sunny weather. “The Great Issues Scholars program that I am in is also coming to an end, and we only have one event left this year. It was a wonderful program, and I feel like I definitely learned a lot about inter-national security, health, and gender issues.

“Since I knew that my main activities would be ending somewhat early in the spring term, I ap-plied to be part of a crew that will be producing a short film. I am the script supervisor for the film, which we will begin shooting this weekend.” By the time this reaches you, I will be staring at a beautiful lake in northern Ontario where we have spent most of the last 45 summers. While we live there with no electricity, no indoor plumbing, and a cold lake to bathe in, not all Canadians are so privileged. Most live a lot like their southern neighbors. Few Americans seem to know much about our largest trading partner (and I like to tell Canadian friends when they complain about our lack of in-terest that they should count their blessings that we are ignorant of Canada, that they wouldn’t like it if we thought as much about them as we do about Iraq and Afghanistan). How many can name the Canadian prime minister or all the provinces?So here is some wisdom on education, with rel-evance to Dartmouth, from classmate David Bond, a voracious reader, a nationally known Canadian economic and political pundit, and a keen observer of the U.S. scene to his south. From a September 2013 column by pundit Bond: “For the last few decades, Canadian universities have been run increasingly for the benefit of the faculty. This trend was evidenced by ever-larger class sizes, ever-fewer student assignments de-manding written work, lighter teaching loads and increasing emphasis on being ‘research intensive’ universities….“The tide is turning. The quality of university teaching is being questioned, budgets are being restrained and pressures are mounting from digi-tal media and MOOCs (Massive Open On-line Courses) that use outstanding teachers from world-renowned institutions. Each of these factors is worthy of a detailed discussion but I want to com-ment upon a trend in some Canadian universities… towards hiring faculty who are focused on teaching rather than on research….“A four-year undergraduate degree is an oppor-tunity to taste a tiny portion of what humankind has learned and produced in the past 80,000 years.

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I saw teaching as a chance to excite minds about learning and to perfect the student’s skills to con-front problems, analyze alternative solutions and present those findings in a cogent and effective manner - all while instilling a life-long curiosity and thirst for knowledge. “Nowadays, this is a much more challenging task. With the Internet, there is an almost infinite quan-tity of material on virtually any subject. Separating the wheat from the chaff, the valid from the fake, is an immensely difficult task. So university faculty, if they serve no other function, must act as guides through this thicket of information overload….“There is a growing level of dissatisfaction with the quality of teaching in universities on the part of both taxpayers and tuition-payers. Universi-ties need to become more customer-focused (i.e. focused on the needs and priorities of students). ‘Research-intensive’ sounds nice but the number of truly gifted researchers is limited and much of the material generated by others is of marginal value. Finally, improvement in the undergraduate experi-ence is long overdue and opposition by faculty or administration to any such improvement will only result in governments, which provide much of the funding, forcing change to placate those complain-ing about inferior teaching.“Forward-thinking institutions will embrace the move to improve teaching and the entire under-graduate experience. The rest will perish.”George Potts responds: “I am currently a tutor at the Natick, Mass. High School and, thus, have some thoughts about where education is going on all levels. Rather than restate these ideas, allow me to reference just two of my blog entries. The first has to do with computer-assisted learning -- http://fletchcast.blogspot.com/2012/05/prediction.html, and the second has to do with improving the qual-ity of teaching (mostly at the high school level) -- http://fletchcast.blogspot.com/2010/09/radical-change.html. I think David Bond has a valid point about collegiate teaching skills vs. research skills, but I also think what subjects are being taught there needs serious review.”And from Reed Browning, who has a bit of experience in higher ed (about 40 years’ worth):

“Here’s my quick take on Dave’s refreshingly hopeful analysis.“Dave is absolutely right that most institutions of higher education give, at best, lip service to the importance of effective teaching. Universities gen-erally don’t try to teach it; colleges too often don’t reward it.“But there’s a new element at play: the slowly mounting consumer revolt against the indefensibil-ity of rising college costs in an era of proliferat-ing MOOCs, mounting student debt default, and stagnant family incomes. Faced with signs of this revolt, colleges are increasingly asking if they are really spending money wisely even as they recalibrate downwards their calculations about their ability to raise prices. In the process, even as economizing becomes essential to survival, many institutions of higher education will also recognize that offering excellent teaching needs to be part of their competitive response. In eternal optimism, Reed.”Says Bob Colyer: “It will be interesting to see what responses David gets. I very much agree with his aims, easy when teaching high school English, but also when teaching college physical education, if one remembers which word is the adjective and which is the noun. We at Dartmouth must have been taught by heretics–depart-ment chairmen required to teach freshmen?“My graduate education, MAT at Wesleyan (so glad I turned down Yale and a Harvard scholar-ship), was everything David says his was not. We loaded up further on content in our academic field while taking the courses (no texts, always original sources) necessary for certification in the various states. What is ironic is that the program’s direc-tor, Dr. Stabler, was a native and educated Cana-dian!“My old freshman roommate, Reed, is always spot-on, and I love his sign-off.”

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Jack Sommer’s response to David’s column: “Hooray, Dave! Thank you for sending his very nice column. I am forwarding it to Jane Shaw, President of the Pope Center for Higher Educa-tion Policy (and upon whose board I serve), an organization that has parallel critiques of higher education in the U.S. Perhaps there will be a way to publish David’s remarks in the Center’s on-line journal ‘Clarion.’“Talented teaching faculty must be au courant with the research literature whether the frequency of their publication is great or small, and excellent higher education institutions are such because they have cultivated an environment of constructive critique within their faculty.“I bet there is a legion of students who remember Dave as a superb teacher as well as a scholar.”Mark Steyn, as some of you right wing gun nuts may know, is a Canadian-born, prolific conserva-tive columnist who lives hidden somewhere in Lyme, NH, one town north of Hanover. This from a not-so-recent column: “I look on religion like gun ownership. That’s to say, New Hampshire has a high rate of firearms possession, which is why it has a low crime rate. You don’t have to own a gun and there are sissy Dartmouth College arms-are-for-hugging types who don’t. But they benefit from the fact that their crazy stump-toothed knuckle-dragging neighbours do. If you want to burgle a home in the Granite State, you’d have to be awful-ly certain it was the one-in-a-hundred we-are-the-world pantywaist’s pad and not some plaid-clad gun nut who’ll blow your head off before you lay a hand on his $70 TV.” This newsletter, by the way, comes to you from one of those we-are-the-world pantywaists. So be it. Last time I shot a gun was 40 years ago to kill a mouse with a b-b rifle. No kidding. And I vaguely recall 4 a.m. visits to the rifle range at Ft. Knox in 1960.So, speaking of illustrious military careers, John Mitchell writes: “Dartmouth and Tuck on ones resume got a lot of doors open. Ya had to do the work if you got the job but getting in the door was a bit less stressful! The oddest D’mouth Tuck luck

was when I joined the 7th Regt Nat. Guard in New York. I started as a pvt., was soldier of the cycle at Ft. Dix, and shipped to Ft. Benning for OCS. “As a new 2d Lt, I was assigned to the Operations Officer as an S-3 asst (staff officer). The S-3 was a NYC cop, had never met an AB, MBA before, and was impressed that I could write simple declara-tive sentences and organize a two-car parade. So he talked the Bn. Cmdr. in to making me a Com-pany Commander as a 2d Lt. Even my pop was impressed by that! The Brigade Commander was miffed that a 2d Lt. was a C.C. and let me know it until my Company came out on top of all the In-fantry Companies in the 42 Division in the annual Inspector General’s competition.”Responding to an email picturing WW II posters, Jack Hodgson wrote, “When I was a little boy, I’d stand in uniform saluting the airmen as they passed in review at the evening parade at Macon AFB. A year or two later, I would have my hand line fish-ing for flounder off the dock in Boothbay Harbor, ME while Norman Rockwell spent the mornings painting next to me.”Sid Goldman packs it in: “Retired from the hack last week. Playing more tennis and also raising a puppy. Where was my head on that one?” Spencer Morgan will have two grandchildren attending Dartmouth in the fall. For-tunately that will only cost somebody about $124,000 a year.

OBITUARIES

The Class honors classmates it has lost with a me-morial book to be added to the collection at Baker-Berry Library. Each will carry a bookplate bearing our classmate’s name. Widows should know that we think of you still as a part of the Dartmouth Class of 1960. You will continue to receive the Class Newsletter and Dartmouth Alumni Maga-zine, and you will enjoy a warm welcome at ’60

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events such as Reunions, Homecoming, and Class Birthday Parties should you wish to attend. We very much hope that you will.Antony S. Rodolakis, 74, of Westfield, Massachusetts passed away Saturday, January 11, 2014 in Western Mass Hospital. He was born in Springfield, Jan 17, 1939 to the late Stelianos and Amelia Rodolakis of Crete. He was predeceased by his brothers Harry, Michael and Mano and his sister Theresa. Tony graduated from Springfield Technical H.S. and received degrees from Dartmouth and the University of Maryland. At Dartmouth he majored in Physics and was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. Tony worked as a physicist for Naval Ordnance Laboratories in Washington D.C. and retired as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. An avid sports fan, he was also interested in politics and the stock market. He developed the first quantitative stock options trading program and published it in his book Options on a Shoestring in 1976. His ground-breaking research led to a new field of study in economics. Tony leaves his loving brother Mark and his wife Cynthia Rodolakis of Longmeadow, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Services were held at St. Luke Greek Orthodox Church in East Long-meadow. Classmates/Tri Kap brothers join in tribute: From Bill Danforth: “Tony and I were both from the Springfield, MA area. We met before Dart-mouth….competing in a local church basketball league … I can remember that he was the quick-est and most tenacious defender on the team. It seemed that he actually had four arms and legs. At the time it was impossible to foresee how mightily that tenacity was to be tested. “Tony was an ideal roommate…quiet and indus-trious when in the room. Of course he wasn’t so quiet as he burst into one of his Four Aces songs.

After graduation we kept in touch but my Navy travels kept me far away much of the time. “It wasn’t until 1975 that…I learned of his tri-als with MS. Gradually he found life in the DC area too difficult with the heat and humidity so he returned to the Springfield area. His faculties began to leave him and he started using a motor-ized wheel chair around town. The city fathers got a taste of his tenacity as he lobbied strongly for improved intersection facilities for the handi-capped. Over time Tony became unable to live independently so he had to leave his apartment. He left behind a massive collection of gadgets, clocks, computers, and unopened software boxes. “Tony moved to the Western Massachusetts Hos-pital where he continued his very difficult battle with his disease…It was through the intercession of Don Belcher that a computer came to be in-stalled at Tony’s bedside, his enthusiasm increased, and he was able to feel part of the outside world from his bedside. Through the last years Tony’s tenacity allowed him to maintain an interest in life despite continued physical decline. Many of the Tri Kaps visited him…. and we will be with him in sprit as we gather this September in Boston. Each member of the fraternity has fond memories of Tony and we will certainly share them all with reverie and respect.”Frank Bell: “Tony had good looks, a brilliant mind, an innovative nature, and was a friend to all he met. But he was dealt a rough life, thru no fault of his own. Yet, he met these adversities with a quiet, sustainable courage, for decades, without losing his humor, kindness, and caring for others. He was what a man should be. It is one of my life’s joys, to have known Tony.”Bill Langley: “Tony was and will always be ‘The Greek’!! Smart, handsome, active, fun, obnoxious, good at singing show tunes and killing kegs, broth-er! He had a tough hand to play but he played it to the limit.”

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Paul Goldberg: “Tony and I shared a special ‘below the radar’ bond. As two of the minor-ity ethnics in what was then a stalwart ‘Waspy’ house (apologies to the RC’s among us),

we often wondered how we happened to choose Tri Kap, and more importantly, how did Tri Kap happen to choose us. Whatever the answers, our relationship remained steadfast over five decades. Tony and I continued our friendship after gradu-ation as we both migrated to the DC area: he to pursue a PhD in physics at the University of Mary-land, and I to attend a Navy ‘grad school’ in DC. The relationship dimmed after he had to drop out of school for health reasons and I went on active deployments in the Pacific. I was shocked, as were all of us, the next time I saw him many years later in his extended care facility. Even though he got dealt just about the worst hand that could befall anybody, he remained steadfast in his determina-tion to live life as fully as he could. The real Tony never disappeared, and, more importantly, never diminished. I was blessed to have known him.”Don Belcher: “Thank God for Tony Rodola-kis...well beyond his always sharp mind, his sense of humor, his wonderful politi-cal leanings slightly to the right of Attila the Hun, he brought so much to me and other Brothers of Tri Kap.... unbelievable courage, the power of persistence, the strength of will to never give up, despite the most fearsome odds. He was a great man and a great friend, and he will be greatly missed by many. May he rest in peace.”

Lewis “Lars” Lofgren, 76, a native and long time resident of Oak Park, Illinois, died on April 24, 2014 with Mary, his wife of 54 years, by his side. Most recently Lars and Mary split their time between Green Lake, Wisconsin and Fountain Hills, Arizona.After graduating from River Forest High School in Oak Park, Lars came to Dartmouth, bringing with him his strong Midwestern character. That he pledged Beta Theta Pi was no doubt influenced by that frater-nity’s significant tilt to the Midwest. At Dartmouth Lars majored in English.Lars devoted his professional career to the found-ing and development of Chicago’s ADE Inc. His passion for spirituality and learning drove his unending support of 4th Presbyterian Church in Chicago and Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. He loved life, golf, cocktail hour and good conversation. Lars is survived by his wife, Mary Lehwald Lofgren; his children, Kurt (Eva), Jessica (Jon) Bedway, Jason (Peggy), Katherine (Kurt) Arbeen, and Jacob (Jenny), and 21 grandchildren and step grandchildren. For those who knew Lars at Dart-mouth and wish to honor him with a memorial gift, the family asks that memorials be made either to 4th Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut St., Chi-cago, IL 60611 or Lawrence University (Lofgren Scholarship Fund), 711 E. Boldt Way, Appleton, WI 54911.Mickey Straus: With many thanks to Tom Trimarco who wrote and compiled from oth-ers’ contributions the follow-ing: “On May 15, 2014, more than 500 friends and family of Melville ‘Mickey’ Straus gath-ered at Jazz at Lincoln Cen-ter, The Appel Room at the Time Warner Center in New York, to celebrate his life. As his wife Leila eulogized: ‘It was a full one, which it

Margie and Paul, Minority Ethnics

Don Belcher, Doing Good

Lars Lofgren

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is bound to be if you are both a workaholic and a serious bon viveur.’“Mickey was born in Pittsburgh on March 16, 1939 and came to Dartmouth from Tucson. He lived in Gile Hall for three years and the Sigma Chi (Tabard) house in his senior year. He was in NROTC and after his service, he graduated in 1967 from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. “Mickey moved to New York City in 1967 where he became a true New Yorker and lived and worked the ‘good life’ until his passing on May 1, 2014 after a 20-month battle with brain cancer. Ac-cording to Leila, ‘he remained his optimistic self until the very end when he was ready to go.’“In listening to his eulogies, which included his son Scott ’92, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, among the many acco-lades used to describe Mickey were words such as, warm, generous, loyal, driven, perceptive, precise, kind-hearted; lover of fine food, five-star hotels and beautiful land and seascapes; magician, pied piper and visionary.“His professional career included stints at Don-aldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Standard & Poor’s Intercapital, 25 years at Weiss, Peck and Greer as a member of its executive committee and head of its small cap growth products. In 1998, he started his own firm, Straus Asset Management where he was managing principal. “His philanthropic endeavors were legendary. At Dartmouth, he was a member of the Dartmouth President’s Leadership Council, a member of the Board of Visitors at the John Sloan Dickey Center, and a past Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center/Hood Museum.“In NYC, his passionate and dedicated philan-thropy for the arts included Guild Hall in East Hampton, the American Ballet Theatre, the Mu-seum of Modern Art, and the Independent Curators Association.“In addition to Leila and son Scott, Mickey also left his daughter Alexandra, son Ben, and daugh-ter-in-law Sara, grandchildren Sadie and Solomon, and his beloved Wheaten Terrier, Tiggy.

“With respect to his family, Leila said, ‘There could be no husband, father or friend more willing to share. He was a wonderful example to his chil-dren of integrity, hard work and giving back.’“Ciao, Melville --- all who knew you loved you.”POLITICS AND OTHER NONSENSE (continued from the previous Newsletter)DocSid Goldman: “Thanks for labeling me pro-gressive. I feel like a dinosaur these days in less and less touch with many issues. I’ve looked at as many videos as I could to try to form an opinion and cannot. I think the kids are spoiled brats and that Phil Hanlon gave them more than enough of his valuable time, and then passed them along to appropriate administrative staff without dropping the ball. Certainly the huge laundry list manifesto was inappropriate and out of order. Looking at the current mix of students at Dartmouth we should not be ashamed of our diversity stats.”Bob Colyer: “Rape is rape, and trespassing is trespassing, college campus or otherwise. Actions have consequences…. Bad lawyers, bad case, etc., probably, but the bottom line is its effect on the College. As a somewhat minor consequence, the two stories could make DCF soliciting tough for us in the next few months. Is it fair to conclude that we 1960s consider Dartmouth attendance a privilege and not an entitlement? Perhaps what disgusts me most is the matriarchal hug from a mother to a son who drank too much (by his own e-mail admission) and thus felt no moral compunc-tion to gratify himself with a willing/unwilling coed. Great sense of values, Lady. I guess it’s the way children are brought up these days -- ‘spe-cial’– thus undisciplined by others and thus by themselves, not respecting others.“Yes, I guess I can be labeled a prudish curmud-geon, an old-fashioned monogamist, or whatever. But Dartmouth attendance doesn’t necessarily confer education, especially when, in my canon, the highest level of education involves values….I do think that whatever the incidents provoke in our various 1960 responses is worthy fodder for the Class Newsletter. Right on! Write on!”

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Bill McClung: “Ridiculous! Maybe Hanlon as new kid on the block felt befuddled–but acceptance of college standards and legal and logical standards of civility should be a condition of enrollment. These students broke the law and one wonders how they were admitted.“In the late ’60s Tina Dickey was my sister- in-law and I got

a fair amount of feedback on how difficult John Sloan Dickey found

it when some students seemed to insist ‘black was white’ and not allow for even gray. John Sloan had no frame of reference for this kind of behavior but it would seem ‘College President 101’ would prepare today’s college leaders to act decisively....unless, of course, they are very liberal themselves. I hope the college acts strongly, even if late. Perhaps there is a position our class could take that most of us would share.”Reuel Stanley: “I have been reading with great in-terest the several emails from ’60 classmates that Bill McClung was good enough to forward to me regarding the recent WSJ article. While not typically one to openly express my opinion about Dartmouth, I find this incident is too outlandish for me to ignore. “In many ways, I believe the action of the stu-dents and President Hanlon’s reaction are typical of the breakdown in respect and discipline that has been going on in society since the ’60s. It also reflects the inappropriate desire on the part of many in academia and government not to ‘offend’ the fringe constituencies by saying no to their demands…. “I believe the message is clear. We the alum-ni should not stand quietly by as Dartmouth knuckles under to the ridiculous demands of a few without the administration apparently even consid-ering appropriate disciplinary action. (In contrast, it is interesting to note how the administration acts promptly against fraternities for ‘inappropriate’ behavior.) In addition the administration contin-ues to add expensive staff headcount in support

of the fringe causes. If we do nothing…. we only have ourselves to blame. It’s time for the alumni to strongly voice their opinion and to push the admin-istration to run Dartmouth more like a business and less like a social experiment.”Rich Pomboy: “Dartmouth’s administration should be congratulated! First award goes to the Department of Social Engineering, previously known as the Admissions Dept. They have suc-cessfully won out in the competition for some of the most extreme candidates for admission. “Second award is for financial management where recent studies show costs totally out of control, even relative to some of the most liberally spend-ing competitors.“Third award is for creating ‘awareness’ about the fine state of affairs at Dartmouth with the WSJ and some news shows featuring unflattering stories about the college.“And finally the administration gets the award for pathetic weakness in confronting a challenge which any textbook on management would rec-ommend handling more forcefully. I guess some still see the college as perfect, but I find it all quite sad.”Bill Langley: “Good Show, Rich [Pomboy]!! Right on the nail head. Instead of worrying whether the grands might get in or not, I think I’ll worry that they might try. What a mess!” Phil Kron: “….you correctly brought the Halverson/Freud matter to the right conclusion! Mary Lou and I got a great chuckle over it. Also, a great chuckle over the coverage of the first marriage at 75 of our Classmate and my friend, one Bob Farmer. We met Mr. Winston in Hanover at our 50th. As for Washington D.C., it sure hasn’t gotten any better! I’m sure Mr. Putin gets a big grin on his face whenever our ‘Commander in Chief’ makes another idle threat. My hope at this point is that

McClung: Still Swinging

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the Republican Party and the Tea Party can get their act together to field winnable candidates for the Senate this fall. There is some modest reason to believe that they are moving in that direction.”Barry Sibson: “As you know, I was an engineer and not a student of foreign relations or his-tory. I am, however, in the camp of encouraging negotiations, even with ones adversaries as long as concessions are not given except in exchange for guaranteed concessions in return. (Trust and Verify?) That Obama and Clinton made an effort does not say to me that they ‘failed completely in his assessment of Putin.’ Was there ever a policy or action that would have deterred his action in Crimea? With the turmoil in eastern Ukraine, he seized the opportunity to guarantee his control of Crimea which has been critical for the Russians for centuries. “I do get agitated by the likes of [Senators] Mc-Cain and Graham who, for political posturing or easing the taste of sour grapes, bash Obama at each and every turn, whether the attacks have any valid-ity or not. “As an old Victorian, I cannot understand how sexual assault can become such a problem on a campus such as Dartmouth. But I was also as-tounded by a long article in the NYT last year that presented some findings of the sexual attitudes and activities of coeds at Penn. I can imagine that the peer pressure on students of both sexes must be pretty heavy. I would agree with you that drinking has a major role, again, on both sexes.” Carol Nicklaus Clark (goes with Bruce): “First of all, I am frankly at a loss about why the WSJ thought that a group of thirty-some students, standing around pretty civ-illy in President Hanlon’s office for forty-eight hours (and half of them for much less than that, apparently) qualified

as Big News. (I was an art student at Ohio State in the early sixties, and we used to do this kind of thing all the time – usually demanding ‘free speech,’ or protesting administrative censorship of the college humor magazine, or some such cur-rently popular cause. It was no big deal – except to those of us who felt we were pretty Hot S**t Real Life Radicals, standing on the barricades of free-dom, hipness, and coolness, with our torches and pitchforks. Nobody thinks he or she is smarter than does a twenty-year-old… Basically, the President and administrative staff would just lock up, go home, and wait until we were done.)…“I was able to hear one of the senior administra-tors, on [a] video, talking to the students about what she thought would be an equitable way to proceed; I thought she bent over backwards to be empathetic, reasonable, and thoughtful. And there was no hollering or badgering from any of the students, either.“You know I’m a life-long liberal (and proud of it!), but even I think that the Freedom Budget’s list of 72 (72??!!) ‘demands’ is fairly absurd, no matter how noble the intentions behind it. (I also thought the College was mistaken to knuckle under to de-mands a while ago for ‘special’ dorms for ‘special’ minorities. Doing so seems to me to be the antith-esis of cultivating ‘acceptance.’) It would be better, IMHO, if these students would work more on a one-to-one basis with their fellow students, to nip bias and harassment in the bud, anywhere and any time they see it in their day-to-day campus life, rather than trying to bully the College into offering all kinds of ‘special protection’ for every minor-ity they can name….Real change rarely comes from badgering some institution for a bunch of new ‘rules.’ It comes from individuals refusing to tolerate discrimination and harassment every single time they encounter it…..these students seem to be asking the College to do work they should be do-ing themselves, if they feel so strongly about these issues. “On the other hand, the problem of excessive drinking and sexual predation IS a serious issue. That ‘rape guide,’ apparently posted a while ago by a few students, should have been shut down,

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and the students involved expelled immediately….Again, the ‘cure’ for this kind of thing is not going to come from the institution of ‘rules,’ other than perhaps making absolutely certain that everyone on campus knows that the penalties are grave, will be consistently enforced, and immediately applied. No exceptions. No ‘extenuating circumstances.’ Period….“I thought President Hanlon’s response was the epitome of, shall we say, ‘graciousness.’…. Under the circumstances, it was probably a good call. I look forward to hearing how other Sixties, and their wives/spouses/partners weigh in on this…”Frank Bell: “Were these really the Happy Days we think we remember when Thad had the controls, or just the dreams of old guys thinking of more ‘simple’ times? We all care about our Dartmouth, past, now, and into the future.”Eric Sailer: “I suggest the following:“Close the fraternities for four years and start all over again with new standards of behavior.“Close all the houses of color, etc. They encour-age segregation and divide the campus. Forced integration for four years would be good for all students, after which they can then choose how to live.“Disrespect for professors, deans, and the presi-dent should not be tolerated.“Create an honor system modeled after William and Mary and enforce it- 50% of students admit cheating at Dartmouth. I have knowledge that cheating is not confronted ‘because the students have lawyers.’“Men respecting women and women controlling their bodies and minds should become a focus of freshman orientation.”Russ Ingersoll: “….I am most skeptical of affin-ity housing. In a liberal arts college the stronger case would be to house people together who have divergent views and interests. Far more likely to learn something that way than to have your own views and interests reinforced by like minded classmates. Clearly I do not grasp the issue fully, but I feel like the now conventional thinking on this is terribly flawed and runs counter to the inter-

ests of a good liberal arts education. In retrospect I realize and regret that my life at Dartmouth was lived within a rather small bubble of my own mak-ing. Students do not need help from the college in building bubbles that will contain and limit their experience and broader interests.”Gary Kanady: “The current College administra-tion isn’t serious about solving the ‘sexual as-sault’ problem. Last year when Dean Johnson asked for a dialog on the problem, I responded with an email to her that you published in our class newsletter. She never even bothered to acknowl-edge it. ….At a minimum, they need to teach that sex has consequences. “Last week we had students occupying the presi-dent’s office demanding more of some of the very things that lead to sexual assault and the adminis-tration responded by rolling over….”Allen Muglia: “The occupiers are allowed their youthful idealism and flamboyant policy wishes. Picketing Parkhurst, OK; sitting in the indoor public spaces, maybe OK; seiz-ing the president’s private office, definitely verbo-ten! Move them out…. Providing a little lecture to them and anybody else on college administration: The president has little, if any, authority instantly to change anything. Decisions are reached collegially, or NOT at all.”David Horn: “Once again, on Fox news (the Five), the Phiesta flap. Unbelievable that they folded so quickly in the face of one person’s irrational objection. And a fundraiser for heart patients? Watch out – if you’re feeling chest pains, head for Vermont. Oh, wait a minute, that’s a socialist haven…. As I have previously said, I’m going to become a Texan!” Art Needham: “Page 8 of the February 2014 issue of the 1960 Newsletter carried the bastardized Latin quotation, GOP delenda est, along with the admonition to ‘Look it up.’ It is a commentary on

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the state of education in America that alums of an Ivy League college should have to be told to ‘look up’ Cato’s warning, ‘Carthage must be destroyed.’ To the 36%, my conservative classmates, I offer the advice of Bill Cunningham, Dartmouth alum and former Boston Herald columnist: ‘Non illegitimi carborundum.’ Because this is a little abstruse, I include the rough translation: ‘Don’t let the bastards wear you down.’ (Try saying that Latin phrase to yourself; it is almost musical…) “PS. Anyone who wishes to see what America would look like except for the ‘obstructionism’ of a majority Republican House of Representatives need only look to Massachusetts, California, De-troit, and/or Chicago.”END OF POLITICS, BEGINNING OF REAL WORLDEnd of politics, maybe, but not the end of contro-versy. John Mitchell has a different take on “non illegitimi carborundum.” Says he, “[it] translates to ‘the rocks aren’t real.’ ‘Don’t let the bastards wear you down’ goes ‘Noli nothis permittere te terere.’ [Ned] Nabers died in 1984 and he’s the only other guy I know who would know.” Any-body else care to weigh in?For those who knew but have lost touch with Jim Hughes, this in May from Howie Frankel: “Here’s the contact info I have on Jim: hug2000@gmail.com, (702) 658-9744 home; (702) 375-2006 mobile. He lives in Vegas after retiring from psychiatry practice in Mountain View [South Bay], CA. His wife of 50+ yrs, Carol, passed away two months ago.”Dave Hambleton, replying to my comment on the long winter and the wait for spring in NH: “Imag-ine. Looking forward to mud [season].”Joe Batchelder was: “Musing again on January 4, 2014. I wait in anticipation of the winter Olympic games, a favorite because I took advantage of the Dartmouth Ski Way and frolicked with the Winter Carnival every year. Fast forward to 1964 after I had completed my military obligation (Mili-tary Police Lieutenant) and was living at home while trading securities in Boston with a major OTC firm. I’m sitting with TV dinner tray with my mother and watching the opening ceremony

of the 1964 Winter Olympics and tears are roll-ing down my face as I am so happy and proud of the US athletes marching to Old Glory. Little, of course, did I know that I would be doing the same thing for my country in Tokyo, Japan, six months later, as a member of the US Yachting team. On the way to Tokyo, a stop in LA for orientation and fitting of uniforms, the US team marched down the field where the Rose Bowl had been played. The bad news, I never sailed with Sid [Goldman, I presume] at Dartmouth, but I did win an Olympic medal (50 years ago).” “I still spend the winter keeping in shape for cy-cling competitions in the late spring and preparing for go-ing to Colorado in late June for the 400+ mile tour in the Rockies,” emails Bruce Clark. “You probably know that I have been appointed to be the Class’s representa-tive on the Alumni Council as a poor substitute for Peter Crumbine. “I am also currently leading the Public Outreach efforts of our Al-Anon District which focuses on carrying the Al-Anon message to the healthcare and other professionals in the Danbury area. “I am serving my last year on our homeowner as-sociation’s board and have taken over the commu-nications responsibilities. An interesting innovation we have recently implemented is a new community communications service called NextDoor which is a sort of Facebook but only within the community. About 60% of the homes are signed up at present, and the service works quite well as community members ask questions and provide answers. I took on these two new communications roles because it was something that I had never done before. And then there are the thrice weekly racquetball games on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.“All in all, busy but not stressed out. This was much more than I could have written on the green card.”

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Kind words from a ’64 about his recent travel mates to Cuba, Allan and Marilyn Glick, Marc Austen, and Bob and Nancy Hatch.

Bob and Nancy Boye did a similar trip and sent the following interesting report: “Knowing your liberal bent towards U.S. foreign policy, I thought you might enjoy the attached pic of Nancy and me standing in Revolutionary Square, Havana, Cuba, last week. We spent nine days there on a cultural/people-to-people tour, the only way for

U.S. citizens to legally visit the blissful, social-ist state. We followed a prescribed itinerary and had little freedom (but some) to wander around. While we had a Spanish speaking American guide, we also picked up a Cuban guide at the airport.We managed to visit several cities along the west-ern part of the southern coast before heading to the northwest for some interesting sites and finally on to Havana. Thus, we covered a lot of ground in eight days.Initially, we were doubting why the U.S. continues the ‘embargo’ against Cuba. But, after a few days, I started to see more and more contradictions. Sort of like ‘What’s wrong with this picture?’ Then, I recalled the words of Ben Franklin, ‘Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.’ Good advice for anyone visiting Cuba. The Revolution is the only message seen on bill-boards. So much for freedom of the press. When the Russians pulled out in 1990, the Cuban econo-my went into a severe slump. They abandoned all infrastructure projects including a nuclear power plant, factory buildings, housing complexes, even highway bridges. They still stand, unfinished, as mute testimony to the glories of socialism.“In theory, Cuban citizens are free to travel wher-ever they choose. The only problem is obtaining a visa to do so - or finding the hard currency to pay for it. Remittances of U.S. dollars caused the government to create a form of scrip, the C.U.C. (kook). All foreigners as well as Cubans who re-ceive $$, must convert into C.U.C.s. on a dollar for

kook basis. But, dollars are subject to a tax. Thus, you receive 87 kooks for $100. Kooks are the only money acceptable at hotels, stores, taxis, whatev-er. The government, of course owns all hotels and most stores.“It is quite apparent that the Cuban population (12.5 million) has a distinct caste system, with Revolutionaries at the top, followed by govern-ment bureaucrats and military officers. Those who can grab a piece of the tourist trade (thus, kooks) also do quite well. Most of the millions earn an average of $15 - $20 per month. However, they do get free, mandatory education, free medical care, housing (in rotten, decrepit buildings), and a monthly food ration. It’s a virtual paradise! We met with a Cuban doctor, who served a thousand people in a commune type place. He had another doc and four nurses. He is paid the equivalent of $32 a month. He also has the training equivalent to a P.A. in the States. Contrast this with a cham-bermaid in a tourist hotel. If she receives the sug-gested tips from tourists, her income could easily be $32 a day, plus she still gets her peon perks. “We drove through some rice-growing land. Suddenly, one lane of the two-lane road was covered with a layer of rice for a mile, drying in the sun. We stopped for photos. Six peons who make $.50 a day were emptying, then refilling heavy bags of rice. (Nice way to sanitize your ba-sic food staple.) Most food production is done by hand or with teams of oxen pulling plowshares.“We drove through Miramar, the wealthy sub-urb of Havana. Unlike most of the country, how-ever, these large, opulent homes were surrounded by walls/fences and appeared to be well main-tained. Our guide told us they were embassies and homes of ambassadors. Problem! Embassies are part of sovereign nations and, usually, fly the flag of their country. No flags flew. We were forbidden to drive on one avenue in Havana. No explana-tion. Who really resides in those houses?“Wherever we dined, fish, pork and chicken were on the menu, sometimes beef (it’s illegal to kill a cow in Cuba). But, as we drove along a couple of hundred miles of southern coastline, we didn’t see any boats moored off the small villages. When I asked our Cuban guide how we got fish without

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fishermen, he said their boats were a few miles away pointing to the vast Zapata swamp where no-body lives. Fact: The average Cuban cannot own a boat (the only way to escape the island).“Venezuela has been selling Cuba cheap oil for a long time. Yet, the pump price is 102 kooks per liter, $4 a gallon. Not many cars on the road. Still lots of late ’50s models and Russian heaps from the ‘80s. However, there are a few old buses crammed with people and horse drawn carts. We passed hundreds of people hitchhiking.“Tourists ride in new, modern Chinese bus-es. Ours couldn’t climb up a series of switchbacks to get up to 800 meter elevation. It overheat-ed. The tourist people at the top sent down a thirty year-old Russian army truck with seats in the back.“We saw parts and places in Cuba that were quite scenic, including the mountains where Castro and his revolutionaries hid out. However, Cuba is fall-ing apart. The housing stock is aged and thread-bare. In Havana, we passed a rail freight yard with rolling stock that had to be 60 years old. There is no passenger rail service. Roads are few. In places, near Havana, there are a few four-lane roads, but no affordable transportation.“Our Cuban guide told us that there was growing concern among the population regarding what will happen in 2018 when Raul steps down as presi-dent. The logical choice is the first vice-president, but.…” Bob Caulfield, reacting to an obituary in the Feb-ruary Newsletter: “I was particularly sorry to learn that Brad Palmer had passed away. He and Brooks Wrightnour lived on the 3rd floor of Russell Sage our freshman and sophomore years right down the hall from Rick and me. If our Class ever had an election for the ’60 with the best manners, I am certain Brad would have won hands down. “I had not had any communication with Brad since we graduated; don’t recall ever seeing him at any events in Hanover in the intervening years, but he, like many other members of our Class, is an indelible part of my memory. Brad was a pole vaulter and I remember he was particularly fond of Johnnie Mathis’ records. Perhaps you knew Brad.

If you did, I am sure you liked him.”Caulfield again, this time on former roommate Rick Roesch who was not planning to attend the Dartmouth-Cal rugby match this spring in Berke-ley: “Roesch is out here and I tried to get him to come to the game as well. He is hopeless when it comes to sports. Always has been.” Smart, too. Dartmouth got demolished, Cal 99, Green 7.A nice “catch-up” from Larry Dingman. (Would that many more of you would send something like this about yourselves––and, if possible, with a photo.) “….I haven’t written in quite a while, so am checking in with some news and even a picture.“The picture is of Jane and me at our party on Feb. 1st in Orleans (Cape Cod) celebrating our 40th anniversa-ry (Feb. 2) and my 75th (Jan. 31). We had 45 in attendance, including our four children and spouses from CA, TN, and NH; two of our four grandchildren (now all post-college); other relatives; local friends; my last Ph.D. student; and classmates Bob Luce and Dunc and Arlene Mathewson, who came all the way from VA and northern VT, respectively. (That says something about what those guys will do for free drinks and a meal!) Unfortunately we didn’t see Dunc and Arlene for very long, but Bob was around for sev-eral days, and it was great to catch up with him at length. “We’ve been retired since 2005 (me from 30 years in the Earth Sciences Dept. at UNH, Jane from an antique business and some teaching biol-ogy courses at UNH) in Eastham on the outer Cape. We’ve mostly been enjoying the Cape’s combination of natural beauty and available ameni-ties (including, at times, medical facilities). We’ve taken a couple of excellent Dartmouth-sponsored trips: ‘Lands of Gods and Heroes’ with three of our grandchildren to Greece and the eastern Mediter-ranean (Jack and Scilla Benson were also on that trip) in ’06; and to Tuscany with Jane’s sister and

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her husband in ’07. Also two trips to CA, once by car (’09) and once by train (’10). “I’ve been playing trombone in community bands and orchestra, and in a swing band we started several years ago. I’ve also been quite busy profes-sionally: wrote a text, Fluvial Hydraulics (Oxford U. Press 2009), am just completing work on the 3rd ed. of Physical Hydrology (Waveland Press 2014), which is a fairly widely used text nationally and internationally, and have written a couple of scientific papers.“Very sorry to hear of Larry Mayo’s death. That was a wonderful obituary - real tribute. I worked with him briefly in Alaska in the late 1960s when I worked for CRREL. He was a unique guy; one of many in the notably large and accomplished group of Geology majors in our class.“Well, those are the high points. We are looking forward to getting back to Hanover in June for the 5th annual ‘Rocks Reunion’ - an every-10-year event for Dartmouth’s impressive community of earth scientists. Let Shelly Gisser know I’m an-other hard-core liberal (and I know of a few other ‘60s, but they can speak for themselves). Does anyone ever hear from Jim Lawrence?”WHAT’S-LEFT-OF-SUMMER READINGSpeaking of brother Gisser, he notes “three books covering roughly the same period, before and dur-ing the beginning of WWII. The three are: “Susan Dunn, 1940 (FDR, Wilkie, Lindbergh, Hitler--the Election Amid the Storm); Lynn Olson, Those Angry Days; Michael Fullilove, Rendezvous with Destiny. “I’m about 3/4 through 1940 and am enjoying it; learning a lot of history and a lot about Wendell Wilkie, of whom I knew nothing previously--an interesting and somewhat intriguing man.” Andy Paul: Be sure to read

Charles Krauthammer’s book, Things That Matter, if you haven’t already. (In fact, drop everything and get it from the bookstore.) [This for viewers of Fox News and open-minded progressives.]

Jack Patterson has been “….reading, reading, reading about George Washington, US frontier in 1700’s, Braddock, Earliest Europeans, the woods, forest, wilderness… A good fellow G.W. I think. “Love how he crossed the Delaware and surprised the Hessians at Trenton and then skipped out on Cornwallis, is it, and smacked his rear guard driv-ing him and his little pockets of troops back into the city.”I have from a local used book sale a copy in very good condition of The Dartmouth Bible, which you may recall from Freshman English. It is signed by one of the Dartmouth editors, Roy Chamberlin. I’d be happy to send it to the first to request it. E-mail me at goodman@sover.net And, while we’re at it, here’s a question from the final exam in English I that year: Identify the following: ‘And ye shall be as gods.’ Dave Sammon? Ken Taber? Anyone?From David Bond: “The Outermost House: A year in the life on the great beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston, first published in 1928, is a clas-sic of nature writing. Long before the advent of radar and GPS, when lighthouses were critical for navigation, he spent a year living in a small house on the outermost edge on Cape Cod. He recorded the passing of the seasons and the events on- and just off-shore. It’s a marvelous book that recounts a time long since past where life was both more simple and fascinating.“Allan Furst is a prolific writer of thrillers set in Europe in the period between 1935 and 1940. Two of his latest, Mission to Paris and Spies of the Bal-kans are up to his usual standard of complex plots, superb character definition and historical accuracy. Great reading for long winter nights.” [If you live where David does, that could mean tonight.]If current economic news is not sufficiently de-pressing, read this from Mike McGinnis: “My vision is that very few American have any savings: apparently 20% of American households have student loan debt (how many young people will earn enough to pay down this debt?). Many more households of frugal savers find that they must invade their savings to live (a source of anxiety?). Some households find their retirement plans to be unfunded (more anxiety?). Some households find

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their homes to be ‘under water’ (more anxiety?), etc. How will families marshal enough money to make 25% (or higher) down payments? And then there are the long-term unemployed. Trickle down??? Are you kidding? There are huge pools of money looking for investments: worthy invest-ments must be scarce.” Finally, a few reminders. News of those of you whom we haven’t heard from for too long, or ever, would be of interest to everyone. Take five minutes and bring us up to date, by e-mail, Green Card, smoke signals, whatever. Send a photo so we can see how good you still look. This edition includes the names of over 50 classmates. Still more would be most welcome.Homecoming, October 17-19, is around the cor-ner. It’s a good and well-planned weekend by the College and your classmates in the Upper Valley. Good food, good activities, good people.

Our 55th reunion is not so far off, June 15-18 of 2015. Bill Gundy and Dick Chase have re-upped to put it all together once again. (Obviously they have short memories of what that involves.) You will be hearing lots more about our 55th, but you might start planning for it now. dg

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