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In these pages:
Reunion Highlights from June 15th-18th, 2017
The Who, What, When, Where, and How:
A more or less chronological recap of the weekend’s events.
“Claim Your Space” in the Class Photo.
Class Dinner Address by our outgoing president, Dave Graham. Reunion service In Memoriam.
President’s Message from Barbie Snyder Martinez.
The new roster of Class Officers.
Oh, and photos. Lots of photos.
Dartmouth Class of 1978
“40th” reunion recap
Newsletter
Photo credit: Steve Peseckis ’78
First of all, I think it safe to say that we were utterly thrilled to gather on the Hanover plain this past June for our putative 40th. At 250 classmates, a little over a quarter of our current class number was able to attend. Along with guests and spouses, the college counted 377 event attendees for the class of ’78.
For the record, we came in second to none other than the ’77s for the most alumni and the highest total in attendance at a 40th reunion. (They had 26 more alums, and 35 total more than we did. Drat.)
And though we were busily engaged over the weekend, each and every one of you who couldn’t make it was missed. I am putting out hopes that another time will find you joining with your past, current, and future friends from the accomplished and generous class with which you matriculated, nigh on 44 years ago.
And now, on to recounting many of the weekend’s highlights as reminders for all who were there, and in doing so perhaps serve to offer an enticing recap that tempts all to participate, un autre jour.
For those who were able to arrive by Thursday morning there was a special trip to Moosilauke. Some of the hardiest and fittest hiked the mountain before joining the other participants at the building site. Tim McNamara, associate director of campus services, ensured that everyone got to see the new lodge, tour the recently constructed bunkhouses (ours is next!) and enjoy a box lunch while hearing about the many plans and improvements underway for the mountain campus.
Here’s hoping everyone saw the recent email offering a chance to pitch in and physically help construct our Class of 1978 Bunkhouse next May, and at other times during the summer. Your time and effort will count as donating!
Go here: http://dartgo.org/1978 to give dollars, by using the dropdown menu choice “Other Instructions About My Gift” and note “Class of 1978 Bunkhouse” in the comments section. ANY amount will add your name alphabetically to the plaque, or you can honor the memory of a deceased classmate, (use the “In Honor” dropdown) or even be anonymous, if you so choose; simply recognizing the fact of contributing. Be a part of this great legacy by giving any amount, whether it be “time or treasure.” As a class, we are committed to inclusivity, and truly want everyone recognized for donating, whatever that contribution may be.
At right, what our bunkhouse (a multi-level beauty that includes scientific research space) will look like, by Fall 2018:
The Who, what, when, where, and how
Class of ’78 peak baggers from our sojourn to Mount Moosilauke on 6.15.17
More pics from the trip to Mount Moosilauke:
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2017 Reunion recap: THURSDAY
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Robert T. Adams
Stephen James Adnopoz
Karen Fagerstrom Albright
Charles H. Allison, Jr.
John O. Ambler
James P. Ancona
Todd K. Anderson
Anonymous # 230
Catherine K. Anson, M.D.
Mark T. Arnold
Dogan W. Arthur
Susan F. Assman
Owen L. Astrachan, Ph.D.
The Reverend W. S. Axford
Anne E. Bagamery
David A. Banta
Bruce K. Barach, M.D.
Anne E. Barschall
W. Scott Barthold
James Putnam Bassett
Sarah Bayldon Beaman
Hampartsoum Bekarian
Clifton C. Below
Jonathan F. Benedict
Douglas E. Benham
Amy Simon Berg
Richard J. Beyer
Joseph W. Bishop III (d)
Bradford C. Blair
Raymond John Boniface, M.D.
Mark A. Brandt
Stephen Clive Braudo
Andrew J. Breen, M.D.
John F. Brenner
Christine Simpson Brent
Douglas S. Brown
Mary Kendall Brown
Scott Sinclair Brown
James L. Bullion
Alexis-Ann Bundschuh, M.D.**
Peter W. Bundschuh
Vicki J. Camerino, M.D.
Randolph B. Cardozo (d)
Catherine Anne Cates
Robert A. Ceplikas
Stephen P. Ceurvorst*
Kevin K. Chase
Celia Y. Chen, Ph.D.
Alexis Siu Ming Chiu
Peter J. Christie
Nathaniel Brooks Clark
William Cody, M.D.
Caroline E. Coggleshell
Mitchell D. Cohn, M.D.
James P. Coleman*
Paul R. Conkling, M.D.
Curtis H. Conroy
David C. Corey
Robert Corrente
Cortland T. Corsones
Geoffrey B. Crew, Ph.D.
Jeffrey M. Crowe
Barbara Meister Cummins
William R. Daniel, Sr.
Barbara E. Dau
Thomas J. Delanty
Charles G. Denison
Clark B. Dickson, M.D.
David G. Dietze
James A. DiNardo, M.D.
Craig B. Douglass
Pamela Daniels Drumheller (d)
Bernard V. Drury
Bernard L. du Breuil
Amy K. Dunbar
Todd Dunn
Andrew D. Ebbott
Paul A. Ehrsam
Michael R. Elitzer
Eric Engelsted (d)
Carolyn Kelley Evans
Elizabeth Putnam Flint
Delos E. Flint, Jr.
Kathryn Stiles Folk, M.D.
William Kevin Fraizer
Arlo Piers Frost, D.V.M.
Daniel D. Galyon, M.D.
Jeffrey R. Garnett
M. Rose Gasner
C. Christopher Gaut
Duana M. George
Mark J. Germano
Peter Gierke, M.D.
Cate S. Sprague Gilbane
Ian C. Gilchrist, M.D.
David L. Graham*
William Grant
Robert A. Gray
William A. Gray
Wendy Thurber Gross
Jerry H. Gurwitz, M.D.
Mark C. Hansen
Timothy C. Harrison
John R. Harvey
David J. Hathaway
Paul E. Heising
Geordie Heller
Frances Hellman
S. Todd Hemphill
Edwin L. Hill, Ph.D.
Gabrielle A. Hirschfeld*
Lap-Yiu Ho
Kevin Thomas Hoffman
Thomas J. Hopkins
Jane T. Horton, M.D.
David T. Hov
Christine Hughes*
Stephen A. Hughes, M.D.
John Henry Hugo
Margaret Fellner Hunt
Elissa Von Heill Hylton*
Robert Behrend Hyman
Jane Kirrstetter Ingram
Michael S. Jacobson, M.D.
Thomas G. Johansen, Jr.
David McKinlay Jones*
Peter H. Judson, M.D.
Paul A. Kadue
Lisa Kaeser
Jacqueline A. Kaiko
David S. Kalapos
Robert J. Kaler
Melinda R. Kassen
Bruce A. Kaufman, M.D.
Jonathan P. Keeve, M.D.
Barbara Kelly, M.D.
Heather Mayfield Kelly
W. Robert Kelly
Catherine Wieboldt Kendrick
Bruce W. Keough
Susan A. Kepes
Richard H. Kimball
David R. King*
Kenneth J. King
Pierre C. Kirch
Margo J. Krasnoff, M.D. (d)
Charles R. Kreter
Jeffrey M. Krolik
Douglas G. Kubach
Paul W. Kuhn****
Karen Kurkjian, M.D.
Ann McLane Kuster
James M. Lattin, Ph.D.
Derek Lawson
Wanda Ryan Lazarus, M.D.
Katharine Leggat
Steven M. Liebowitz, M.D.
Samuel D. Lippin
Richard W. Lougee
Nancy Luebbert
Helen A. Lukash
Scott C. Lundstrom
Christopher R. Lynch
Elizabeth Howell MacCallum
Joyce Green MacDonald
Alan Angus MacPhail
Ann H. Maddox
Walter A. Malmquist, II
Steve Mandel
Barbie S. Martinez
David B. Master
Ian McColough
Keith R. McCrae, M.D.
Mark H. McCubbin
Caroline McIlhenney
Classmate Donors to the “Class of 1978
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Harvey B. Weinberg
William A. Wechsler, PhD (d)
Leonard Weiser-Varon
Michael K. Whitcomb
Gerard C. Widdicombe
Douglas G. Wildes
Kevin B. Wilkey
Charles G. Wise
Alan F. Wohlstetter, Jr.
William H. Woods
David D. Wright
William F. Yancey (d)
Richard Charles Yocum, M.D.
Peter K. Zeitler, Ph.D.
Memorial Gifts in Honor of Non-78s
Alexander Jones ’38
Susan & Malcolm MacLane ’46
Jennifer Petit ’78S
Hayley Petit ’11
Michaela Petit
Roy Forester. Ph.D.
There is still time to Get on (the) Board. Join
these ~300 classmates with any size
donation and be listed on the donor
recognition boards in this final, two story
bunkhouse at the base of Moosilauke.
http://dartgo.org/1978 and use dropdown
‘Other Instructions’ to designate your gift.
(d) – deceased
* - gave in honor of another ’78. Multiple *s
means donor has given in that multiple of
deceased ’78s.
William R. McLaughlin
Paula H. McLeod
Lisa Miles McNamara
Timothy J. McNamara
Donald C. McQueen
Gregory M. Melvin
Brook G. Milligan
Timothy I. Moore (d)
John M. Moriarty, Jr.
Athena M. Moundalexis, M.D.
Thomas N. Mousin
Edward R. Moynihan
Wendy Gair Muello, M.D.
Douglas L. Murphy
William M. Murphy
Charles Muse
Nancy Myer Freedman
John A. Myer
Jeffrey C. Nadherny
Wilson S. Neely
James H. Newman, Ph.D.
George W. Niedt, M.D.
Helen Andrews Noble, M.D.
Frederick J. Norton
Curtis P. Oberg
Daniel O'Connor
Kathleen A. O'Connor
Margaret A. O'Donnell
William A. Origel, M.D.
Judith A. Osher, Psy.D.
Elisa A. Ostafin, M.D.*
S. W. Pacala
William C. Paganelli, M.D., Ph.D.*
Steven J. Pahos
L. Mark Panella
Alice Galuszka Papsun, M.D.
Donald W. Perkins Jr.
Steven M. Peseckis
Elin Peterson, Esq.
William A. Petit Jr., M.D., FACP, FACE
Jeffrey Paul Petrich
Andrew J. Petrie
Kent C. Pierce
Michael L. Pope, M.D.
Martha Roberts Post
James Pramburg (d)
Laurel Bates Preston
Stephen B. Preston
Florence Delbridge Quartarone
Ellen S. Foley Raemsch, M.D.
Katherine McKusicK Ralston
John W. Reeder*
Dan W. Reicher
David B. Reiser
Jonathon A. Reiss
Donald J. Rendall, Jr.
Sandra Smallwood Rendall
Peter A. Renner
Christine Hayer Repasy, Esq.
Allan S. Reynolds Jr., Esq.
Harriet T. Reynolds
Scott A. Riedler, M.D.
G. Christopher Riley
Andrew R. Rockwell
Jill Eilertsen Rogers
Charles F. Roots (d)
Bruce C. Rowe, M.D.
Denise M. Ruzicka
Alvaro Saralegui
R. Nichols Scheu
Harriet S. Schwartz
Randy K. Schwartz
Julie B. Schwarz*
Terry Ann Scriven, M.D.
James D. Senger
Frank J. Setian
Bruce Samuel Shames, M.D.
Kenneth Alan Shaw
Eloise Taylor Sheldon
Margaret McGrath Sherman
David M. Shoemaker, Ph.D.
Ellen Meyer Shorb
John R. Shuman Jr.
Friedrich A. P. Siekert
Cotten Jeffrey Smith
Gary A. Sobelson, M.D.
Mark A. Solomon
Dave Speer
Rick Spier
Dean Stephens
Joseph M. Sullivan
Richard P. Sunshine (d)
Thomas M. Swartwood
Lauren S. Tanny
Mary-Ellyn Tarzy
David A. Taylor, M.D.
Stephen L. Thompson
Cynthia Rae Tolbert, M.D.
Brian Tuck
James C. Vailas, M.D.
Carol Hillman Van Dyke
Christopher J. Vasiliu
Peter W. Vaughan
Francesca Taylor Voegelin
Jonathan T. Walton Jr.
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Bunkhouse” (As of December 5th, 2017)
Reunion recap 2017: Thursday Reception
A Thursday arrival also provided the opportunity to be graciously received by Drew Rockwell and Bartlett Leber (and Noodles) at their home in Norwich for the ’78 Welcome Reception.
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At the class tent, later that same evening...
Charlie Allison, one of our hard-working reunion co-chairs.
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2017 Reunion recap: Friday
Friday brought the usual range of activities; golf, hiking, biking, tennis, tours on campus including its architecture and the steam tunnels, and the Open Houses at Baker and Bartlett Towers and in the academic departments. We had breakfast at the tent, lunch and dinner in Leverone because of damp weather, and informative lecture choices to make among College Admissions, the Polar Regions, and “Fact vs. Fiction in an era of Fake News.” A highlight of the day was the pop-up Arts Celebration in conjunction with the Class of 1977, featuring artwork by our very own Gar Waterman, and the literary oeuvre of Rick Beyer. Another noteworthy event was the evening book discussion of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, and Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast, hosted by Nick Sakhnovsky and Anne Bagamery, before moving on to more socializing at the class tent. Whew! Hope you enjoy this selection of photos from the day.
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At a Top of the Hop gathering, the legendary philanthropy of the ’78s was noted as we collected several awards for being such a generous class. We received the Roger C. Wilde 1921 Award for setting a new 40th reunion giving record, and the Class of 1938 Award for the largest amount given in a reunion year. Our total gift of 6.2 million accounted for > 14% of the amount raised for the DCF, with 41% of our class participating in donating. That’s not close to the highest desired level of participation, however, as % of participation counts for a lot. If you want to be a part of helping future generations of students while raising our ranking, please use this link to give any amount to the DCF: http://www.dartmouthcollegefund.org/how-give. Every donation matters. We were also honored with the Class of 1960 Award for supporting the most DCF scholars (106!) in our commitment to financial aid; an accolade that with the help of your generosity and engagement, we will maintain. And as seeing is believing, here’s proof of our place on the plaque!
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Saturday began with several breakfast gathering choices: Buffet at the tent, alumnae of all three classes meeting at the home of Martha Beattie ’76, and the DGALA reunion breakfast. During the day there were the usual campus tours and open houses, the Alumni Row on the Connecticut, and several talks and programs, including remarks by President Philip Hanlon ’77 that concluded with a Dartmouth Aires performance. There was a DGALA faculty lecture, an animation festival, and live music with an ice cream social on the Green. Notably, our classmates Jeff Nadherny, David Hathaway, David Dietze, Dave Kalapos, Doug Brown, Cotten Smith, and Cay Weiboldt Kendrick (my apologies if I’ve left anyone out) presented a seminar entitled The Second Act, exploring “strategies for staying engaged, enjoying life, and keeping it real.” Luncheon was served on Baker lawn with the ’76s and ’77s, we had our class picture taken, and enjoyed a reception and class dinner on McNutt lawn, followed by a Dartmouth Idol All-Stars performance and fireworks on the Green. And once again, there was socializing into the wee hours at the tent and other places. Thusly we celebrated another full day.
2017 Reunion recap: Saturday
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The Who, what, when, where, and how:
Claim your face space in the class picture
Here’s the post-reunion audience participation section of our program. See the regular class picture, and see the picture with the numbered overlay. (Thanks go to our new webmaster, Dave Hathaway, who is clearly a man of many talents, for delivering on the technical aspect of this request!) All you have to do to play, is find your face space, note the number, and send an email [[email protected]] letting me know your name and the number for your spot. I will publish the identified class photo with claimed spaces in a subsequent newsletter. Let us all know where you are!
Before we move along, I must take a moment to thank in the most emphatic terms possible, our reunion co-chairs Charlie Allison, Barbara Kelly Hack, Keith McCrae, and Steve Peseckis for all they did to make this event possible. Contending with as many complications as you find in planning for a wedding, the co-chairs are far too often the most overlooked and under appreciated (and always the most underpaid) contributors to reunion. Yet, as we all know; without their hard work and willingness to step up, this weekend would not have happened in such a memorably good way. I must give a special shout out to the indefatigable photography efforts and skill of Steve Peseckis in particular, for without him, the quality and number of pictures available to us and to posterity would be substantially reduced. We should also give a rouse for Rich Lougee, the newly anointed Beverage King for the class. Thank you all, and thanks to everyone else who pitched in and contributed above and beyond their pay grade, both volunteers and those employed at the college, to make our weekend such a grand success. Huzzah, and hip-hip hooray!
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2017 reunion: class president’s address
While certainly not the last we’ll hear from our generous and accomplished classmate, Dave Graham, this was the final
address of his recent term as class president. For those who missed the Saturday dinner, or any who’d like a refresher,
here is the text of his remarks from June 17th, 2017:
Good evening and Carpe D78!
I’m required by Safe Harbor rules to offer the following
disclaimer. The comments I’m about to make are solely
my own. They are not in any way endorsed by your
class leaders and most definitely not by the College.
There are both forward and backward looking
statements. As such they are reflections, recollections,
predictions, projections, and ambitions and therefore
are neither truthful nor accurate. OK?
For those of you that don’t know me, I’d like you to
know four things about me.
One, I’m a man of a million ideas ………and almost no
follow through.
Two, I hate trite phrases. The one that drives me
craziest on social media is “my thoughts and prayers
are with you.” Another is ‘It’s been an honor and a
privilege.” Let me use the next few minutes to
elaborate upon that.
Three, I am a ‘social entrepreneur.’ That means I take
risks and say things not typically said on such
occasions……or even polite company generally.
Finally, I am a LUCKY man.
I’ve given this talk a thousand times in my head.
Unfortunately, I’ve given a thousand different versions.
We’ll see which one comes out tonight.
Let’s get warmed up with some AUDIENCE
PARTICIPATION and a show of hands to the following
random questions. Some are directed at Dartmouth
grads but spouses, partners and friends should certainly
join in.
How many are here at a Dartmouth 78 reunion for their
very first time?
How many of you don’t drink alcohol anymore? How
many never drank while here?
How many of you would like a do-over? Meaning, to
come back and do Dartmouth all over again?
How many here have run a marathon? Boston?
How many here have served on a school board or been
involved in the PTA?
How many of you have climbed Mt. Rainier?
Mt. Whitney? Mt. Kilimanjaro? All three?
How many have cared for an aging parent?
How many of you were arrested or nearly arrested for
something other than a traffic ticket or moving violation
while in College? How many were nearly arrested for
indecent exposure at the Norwich Pool?
One final question and please be honest. You’ve been
such a good audience so far.
How many had sex for the first time here at Dartmouth
College? How many of you had it with another person?
I asked to address you tonight because, if all goes well
tomorrow at the Class Meeting (9:45 after the Memorial
Service 8:30-9:30 am at Rollins) I will be concluding my
role as Class President after nearly 7 years.
I wish to look back. I wish to take stock. And I wish to
look ahead.
I also intend to offer a few pearls of wisdom I’ve gleaned
since those hazy, crazy days of the late 1970s.
Regarding Wisdom, they say that with age comes
wisdom…..and hemorrhoids. I’ve got good news and bad
news. I see a lot of wise faces out there but many of you
are shifting uncomfortably in your seats.
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Wisdom Pearl #1
Learned this just a year after graduation when going out
after work for beers with a co-worker. When our beers
were brought and placed on the table, he had that look
of peaceful, knowing satisfaction and said,
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal
lobotomy.
That seemed pretty sage to me, a statement that has
stood the test of time.
Why Carpe D78? Why the logo with the Moosilauke
silhouette in the background? I stand here tonight
because our Go-To reunion speaker–beloved classmate
and friend of many, Marc Farley, is no longer with us to
reprise his wonderful wit delivered at the 25th and 35th
reunions. Marc’s life was celebrated by many classmates
19 months ago when a rowing shell was dedicated in his
honor. But his early and untimely death serves notice
that we are beginning to run out of runway. The finish
line is closer than the starting blocks.
Most of us still feel young, active, and engaged. But as
Forrest Gump said, ‘It Happens.’ I figure we’ve got a
good 10-15 years to continue building friendships and
finding ways to be actively involved in building the most
ACCOMPLISHED AND GENEROUS Dartmouth class ever.
Now is our time.
Do we have any cancer survivors here tonight?
Some of you know, but many do not, that I was
diagnosed with stage IV melanoma 18 months ago. I had
a ping pong, check that, beer pong ball sized tumor
removed from my head. Which leads me to…….
Wisdom Pearl #2 Wear sunscreen. Make your kids wear
sunscreen and certainly make your grandkids wear it
too!
Thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, I’m doing
fine. But the diagnosis served as a wake up call. Who
knows when our time is up? Seize the day and the
opportunities.
One last point. Who among you knew our classmate
Pam Daniels Drumheller? Not too many I suspect.
But those of us who knew Pam knew her as a warm,
friendly and spirited young woman with a ready smile
and an engaging personality. I got introduced to Pam
before we landed at Dartmouth because we both lived
in Western MA and were admitted ED. We even drove
up to visit the campus in the spring of ’74.
As luck would have it, we both ended up in Wheeler, its
first year as a coed dorm. I didn’t see Pam after we
graduated. But I always held out the hope that we’d
reconnect.
I found her on Facebook a few years back and while
not active, she did respond to something I posted in
December 2015 shortly after my cancer diagnosis.
Allow me to read from the direct email she sent me:
“…really sorry to hear about your health issues, but I
think we may be in a position to help one another. I was
diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer last March
and everyone is surprised I’m alive. Look pretty damn
good as well, if I do say so myself. Especially if you
happen to like bald girls… I completely get your
admonishment against the sickening ‘my thoughts and
prayers are with you’ phrase. I may have to karate chop
someone in the earlobe if I hear that again.”
I was so excited to get her email and quickly wrote her
an even longer and personal response. But, for
whatever reason, she never got back to me and passed
away 13 months later this past January. Maybe you
have a Dartmouth buddy from long ago like this.
Carpe D78.
Wisdom Pearl #3 Life is just a series of missed
opportunities.
This somewhat tongue-in-cheek comment is a truism of
mine, and addresses that ol’ woulda/coulda/shoulda
sense of life.
It captures my lament at losing Pam Daniels Drumheller
but can be applied to many other aspects of existence
like “Why didn’t I buy Microsoft in the 1980s, or “Why
did the Seahawks throw the ball with 26 seconds to
go?” You get my drift.
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Wisdom Pearl #4 There is a lot more randomness or
luck involved in life than what I thought in 1978.
Back then I was the Captain of my own ship. I expected
to go as far as my talent and hard work would take me.
Of course, I wasn’t very talented and I certainly wasn’t
hardworking compared to most of you. I was interested
in the burgeoning field of entrepreneurship especially
biotechnology. My career was okay. I worked for a large
conglomerate, a venture backed startup, ran my own
consulting firm, and started three different companies –
none of which struck gold.
Now I’d like to elaborate on a message I wrote in one of
Helen’s newsletters a few issues back. Despite hours
and hours of careful drafting and extensive editing,
alright – minutes, I know you still didn’t read that
Message. So, here we go. Let me start by referring to
that LUCK thing. It’s taken me until these last few years
to realize how lucky I am. You see, I won the genetic
lottery for mid-20th century America. I am a WASP, a
white Anglo-Saxon Protestant male, and straight! My
path in life, both before and certainly after Dartmouth
was immeasurably easier based upon my sex, my skin
color and my sexuality. And when I arrived here in
1974, I was selfish, immature, hedonistic, foolish, cocky,
insensitive and uninformed. Hey, who knew? I could be
President of the United States!
But as I reflect back let me now address three groups of
classmates.
First, to the women of our class. I didn’t make it easy
for you. I bought in to the traditions of Old Dartmouth.
I didn’t want you in our all boys treehouse. While I
personally didn’t object to your being here [in fact some
of you were gracious or desperate enough to date me],
I didn’t call out when my brethren exhibited more overt
and obnoxious sexism. It was important for you to be
here with us. Thank you for surviving. Your trailblazing
path has made it immensely easier for today’s young
women at Dartmouth.
Next, to my black and minority classmates. This college
located in the lily white woods of northern New England
must have been culture shock squared. My interactions
with you were sorely limited though I have one fond
memory to share. Freshman fall term, the morning river
fog giving way to the hazy sylvan sunshine, the colors, the
sweet smell of decay, and each morning I’d trudge from
Wheeler to Thayer then back to Dartmouth Hall for 8 am
French Drill. Afterward, two others and I would walk over
to Math 5 at Silsby; Rich Costa from Provincetown MA
and Sterling Edmonds from Chesapeake VA. Man, what
an unlikely trio. Thereafter, I would always nod to
Sterling when our paths crossed on campus and I even
interviewed him as a senior sports info intern. When I
look back now, I lament the lost opportunity to create a
better, deeper friendship. I even wrote to Sterling and
Rich in advance of our 35th to see if they’d join us, but
that effort has yet to bear fruit.
Wisdom Pearl #5 There’s such a thing as knowing
something intellectually and then truly knowing it
emotionally, knowing it with your heart and soul as
well as your head.
Thirty-nine years ago at Senior Day, Ron Andrews gave
a most thoughtful and eloquent address about what it
meant to be a minority member within the Dartmouth
community. I still have vivid memories. I got it here [point
to head]….but not here [heart]. It’s taken me almost 40
years to even begin to get it here, and I’m probably still
not all the way there.
Lastly, to my LGBT classmates. I can’t even begin to
imagine how difficult Dartmouth must have been in the
mid-70s. We buried you in the closet. And we barricaded
the door and nailed it shut with our homophobic slurs
and insults. Dartmouth may have not been dramatically
different than society as a whole but our brand of
testosterone charged machoism led to an unusually
strong streak of homophobia. But I am glad that some of
you have come to join us this weekend with spouses and
partners. And I’d like to give a shout-out to Steve Strauss
for his wonderful if informal reach-out effort.
2017 reunion: president’s address, continued
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To members of all three groups, the lens of time has
offered me a chance to look back and see where I fell
woefully short. Looking forward, help me by engaging
with me and other class leaders so that we can build
broader participation and truer, deeper friendships.
To that end, I am extremely pleased to announce that
at tomorrow’s class meeting we will nominate and
heartily endorse as our next Class President – Barbie
Snyder Martinez!
Now let me tell you about the State of Our Class. We
have a very good class. We like to compete. The Class
of ’78 has broken records for Absolute Dollar Giving
at every reunion even before our 25th. This year, we
set not just a College record but an Ivy League record
for 40th reunion classes. We gifted the Class of 1978
Life Science Center almost 6 years ago. We are striving
to gift the final Bunkhouse at the Moosilauke Ravine
Lodge complex, largely because of our reputation as
an ACCOMPLISHED and GENEROUS class. Here are a
few other important metrics:
Facebook Group – 320 members
Email Open Rates – 785 good emails; 40-55% Open
Rates
For the second reunion in a row we’ve offered Angel
and Scholarship Pricing. This year we’ve had 50 guests
pay the Angel rate vs 22 classmates and guests ask for
the subsidy. A fantastic testament to our collective
desire to broaden the tent and invite any and all ’78s
into it. Generosity in Action.
Class Dues Participation – 34-44%
DCF Annual Fund Participation – 40-50%
When you add all these up, I figure we have 60-70% of
classmates engaged. But that leaves the remaining
30-40%, the group I call the D&Ders or Distant and/or
Disaffected.
Over the past seven years Class President, my greatest
ambition has been to increase ENGAGEMENT and find
ways to bring these D&Ders back. After all, I was one.
New England born and bred, I haven’t lived here since
1978. I’ve been on the west coast since 1982 and in
Seattle since 1987. It was hard to maintain ties to the
College and friends that seemed concentrated on the
eastern seaboard. I remember reading the DAM and
wistfully wondering if my life and career measured up.
But when I took on this role as Class President nearly
7 years ago, I had reached a point of comfort and
acceptance. I am no longer a member of the D&D.
I hope that any of you who have felt estranged from
Dartmouth are too.
Let me end with Wisdom Pearl #6
A person’s wealth is not measured by the size of their
bank account, but rather by the breadth and depth of
their friendships.
Ladies and gentlemen, I AM A LUCKY MAN and it has
been amongst my greatest privileges to be a member
of this class and to be your class president. There are
so many of you that I have really enjoyed getting to
know these past seven years that it would take too long
to thank adequately so I will do it privately. To all of you
my Dartmouth brothers and sisters, I thank God that I
was allowed into this College and this ACCOMPLISHED
AND GENEROUS class. You have enriched my life beyond
measure. But time is diminishing, a limited resource and
one that will shrink at an accelerated pace. So let’s toast -
To old friends, to new ones, and to those we have yet to
make, may the bonds of friendship continue to expand
and strengthen. Carpe D78!
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2017 Reunion recap: Saturday, cont.
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40th reunion Class Memorial service
At every reunion our class chaplain presides over a service in Rollins on Sunday morning, giving us an opportunity to gather for a bit of contemplation, reflection, and remembrance. The list of classmates who have passed grows longer each time, and serves to remind us of life’s inevitable trajectory. When we pause to think of those who have left before us, we can also look ahead to using the time with which we’ve been gifted for living fully and with purpose and gratitude, mindfulness, and with as much grace as possible. We can resolve and remind ourselves to carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero and yes, in our short adapted form, to Carpe D78, and to think of living with kindness and consideration, and using the most honest communication of which we’re capable. Any little instruction book of life would likely tell us that “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” --Harriet Beecher Stowe. Perhaps we can endeavor to avoid that kind of regret through how and what we choose to do each day. From here, I wish for all of us to have long, happy, and healthy lives, filled with meaning and with making a positive difference in the world. Namaste.
In case you have a renewed interest in the here and now and you’re led to wonder who was at reunion, you can follow this link to use as a gentle reminder of who you saw, or as a means to jostle your memory with the names of folks you may remember:
http://1978.dartmouth.org/s/1353/clubs-classes15/start.aspx?sid=1353&gid=326&pgid=11509&cid=28168&fid=28162
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Greetings, Class of ’78!
It’s hard to believe it has already been six months since many of us gathered together on the Hanover Plain for our “40th” Reunion. The event will be covered in many other pages of this newsletter, however, I want to again thank our Reunion Co-Chairs, Barbara Kelly Hack, Keith McCrae, Steve Peseckis and Charlie Allison, along with the rest of their committee members, for their many months of work and planning, culminating in a wonderful weekend at Dartmouth for all! On Sunday morning, at our reunion’s class meeting, I became President of the Class of 1978. For my first “President’s Message” I wanted to share some of the remarks I made that morning… While I did not seek this position, I am honored to serve our class. I am humbled to follow other classmates and to try to fill the shoes of Dave Graham who has done so much to increase participation and inclusiveness for all ’78s. (What was I thinking? Trying to follow Dave?) We all have a Dartmouth story, and this is mine. Living in suburban Boston, one weekend in 1963 my family took a drive through Hanover. Something in a seven-year-old mind clicked, “This is what a college should look like.” In junior high, I started telling people, “I’m going to Dartmouth.” There was one small problem: Dartmouth was at the time, an all-male school. So, people thought I was just a boy-crazy teenager. Fast forward… my mother came to wake me up one morning of my sophomore year of high school and said, “Oh, I thought you might like to see this.” She handed me a one-inch column from the newspaper which read, “Last night, the Trustees of Dartmouth College voted that the College will go coed in the fall of 1972.” From there on, it was “tunnel vision.” To this day, my 91-year-old mother jokes, “Thank goodness they let her in, or we would have had Humpty Dumpty on our hands.” I still recall several of the essays on the application. One was something like, “What do you hope you’ll be doing ten years from now?” Part of my reply was that, “I hoped to be active in Dartmouth Alumni activities.” And here we are. While I’ve participated in various Dartmouth Alumni volunteer activities, recently I have done more specifically with our class, and have thoroughly enjoyed it. As Dave Graham has often shared, even those of us who THOUGHT we knew many of our classmates during our undergraduate years, probably only knew a fraction. Becoming involved with Class of ’78 activities, I have been re-connected with classmates I knew during our college years and have met at least as many (including my predecessor, and our newsletter editor) whom I did not know from 1974-1978. The new friendships have been as enjoyable as the lasting ones made back in Topliff. It reminds me of the old Girl Scout song, “Make new friends, but keep the old; One is silver and the other’s gold.” I am so appreciative that many members of the Class Executive Committee are continuing in their roles, and am delighted that Jim Bassett has agreed to serve as Vice President, David Hathaway has stepped up to be our new Class Webmaster, Harriet Travilla Reynolds and Ann Hoover Maddox are our Mini Reunion chairs, and Mary Kendall Brown will serve as Alumni Council Representative. As time and need may dictate, we look forward to others joining us, as well. There are five themes you will be hearing from me – Congregation, Celebration, Collaboration, Contribution, and Communication. I hope we will congregate formally and informally, in small and large groups; celebrating milestones from retirement, to grandchildren, to awards and accolades, having a book published and so on. It is also my hope that we will collaborate to help each other with things ranging from finances, health and wellness, elder care, to travel, golf, etc., and that we may we contribute in many ways beyond the financial, whether by participating in a class project or other initiative where our experience could be of use. The importance of communication almost goes without saying and yet, it cannot be emphasized enough in its importance to accomplishing the other “Cs.” It is my hope that our class “tag line” of being “The Accomplished and Generous Class of ’78” can extend well beyond fundraising and into helping each other with the topics we are facing in our sixties and beyond. I am excited that our class name will soon be on yet another structure – The Class of 1978 Bunkhouse, and we’ll have multiple opportunities to collaborate on that in the coming year. You’ll be hearing much more about that here and over the next few months. Thank you again for this opportunity. I know I have a learning curve ahead of me, and will rely upon Dave and others until I am fully up to speed. Please know that I share our love of Dartmouth and this class – each and every member. I look forward to reminiscing about past times on the Hanover Plain, and creating new memories of classmates together in our “Second Act.” Carpe D78! Barbie
President’s Message from Barbie Snyder Martinez
2017 Reunion recap
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2017 reunion recap: Roster of Class officers
Barbie Snyder Martinez President*
Jim Bassett Vice President*
Bob Gray Treasurer
Rick Beyer Secretary / Necrologist
Helen Lukash Newsletter Editor
David Hathaway Webmaster*
Brooks Clark Communications
Ann Hoover Maddox Mini-Reunions*
Harriet Travilla Reynolds Mini-Reunions*
David Dietze Head Agent
Charlie Allison Head Agent
Karen Fagerstrom Head Agent
Tim Harrison Head Agent
Paul Ehrsam Major Gifts
The Rev. W. Scott Axford Chaplain
Steve Adnopoz At-Large*
Todd Anderson At-Large*
Dave Graham At-Large*
Mary Kendall Brown Alumni Councilor*
Sunday’s Class Meeting with Dave Graham, and Barbie Snyder Martinez, our new class president, et al 6.18.17
Dave Hathaway, our new webmaster. Check out his intro in Rick Beyer’s recent DAM Class Notes!
“*” denotes newly elected or appointed at or after 2017 reunion
Jim Bassett, our new vice president
Ann Hoover Maddox, co-chair for mini reunions
Harriet Travilla Reynolds, co-chair for mini-reunions
Mary Kendall Brown, our alumni councilor
Please visit this link for our class website, and to pay class dues:
http://1978.dartmouth.org
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Reunion 2017 wrap-up
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Got the loot without the warrant or a crook! Not quite A-Z, but for swag, reunion had you covered from B-W: Bottle opener, coffee cup, fleece vest, tote bag, water bottle, and more. (Furry pet not included. I got tired of shooing her away. We all remember the Dartmouth dogs; it seems she’s a loyal Dartmouth cat.) In any case, come to reunions, connect with great people, collect cool stuff!
Everybody who joined in was happy for each and every one who could make it. And if you couldn’t, we wished you were here. Perhaps next time; there will certainly be minis and virtual reunions in the interim. Until we
meet again: Carpe D78!
