1960 NEWSLETTER President: Bruce Hasenkamp, 2435 Skyfarm Drive, Hillsborough, CA 94010-6343 (650) 343-6829Secretary: 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) 649-1008Gift Planning: Phil Kron, 127 Riveredge Drive, Chatham, NJ 07928-3116, phone (772) 631-3766 MLBKPCK@aol.comAlumni Council Representative: Peter Crumbine, 3 Copper Beach Rd., Greenwich, CT 06830; 203-629-1687 pcrumbine@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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The following is a non-partisan, unpaid for political announcement. Nobody seems particularly excited about either Mr. Romney or President Obama these days, perhaps rightly so. With that in mind, we should mostly stay off the subject of elections, except to note what one of our classmate’s relatives once said: Clarence Darrow (a distant something or other of our

Anybody for President, a Trophy from Miss Gill, and a New Philosophy of Life. Also, Quasicrystals and 5-fold Rotational Symmetry, Strumming in the Bohemian Grove, and Bon Jower, Mon Sewer

Homecoming Hike, 2011: Rog Hanlon, Maura and Bob Prouty, Bill Gould, Joan and Butch Hitchcock, Bruce Clark, Ann Hanlon

Chuck Darrow) put it best: “When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.” Give some thought to attending Homecoming weekend October 26-28. The schedule will be much like past versions of this popular mini-reunion, with cocktails and the bonfire on Fridaynight, a class meeting and tailgate Saturday

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Homecoming 2011, Guy, Boye, Goyette, and Gould

morning, football vs. Harvard, an easy hike somewhere near Hanover or a third option Saturday afternoon, and a Class dinner Saturday evening. More detailed information and a sign-up sheet will be forthcoming. The “Daily D” reports: TFA (Teach for America) CEO to speak at 2012 Commencement; College to expand gender-neutral (co-ed by room) housing options in fall; Senior studio art majors’ ex-hibit opens to-day at Hopkins; 1,080 accept offers of admis-sion [49.5% of those ac-cepted]; Dart-mouth women’s lacrosse wins Ivies; Police arrest 17 over Green Key weekend; Student approval of Kim varies; One-third of seniors accept job offers [an increase over 2011]. Other stories covered the College’s tax return (total revenue $959 million, a $95 million increase over the previous year; total expenses $895 million, up $24.6 million); and salaries of senior administration officials (President Kim’s total compensation $1.085 million, Provost Carol Folt $561 thousand).Also from the “D”: “This year’s annual Green and White Game, a spring football scrimmage, deviated slightly from tradition. Like usual, the Dartmouth football team took the field and split up into two even teams for an inter-squad scrimmage. This year’s contest, however, did not include any tack-ling.” Deviated slightly? Mike McGinnis noted that the spring football “scrimmage” this year was a little less than a scrimmage. “Isn’t the end of football near when a no-contact scrimmage is had because contact is dangerous? What is no-contact football? What was Teevens thinking?”And these cheerful thoughts from Mike: “Think how much wealth has disappeared/evaporated in the past two years: Home equity. Jobs. Pension

funding. Savings yielding so little to be worthless as an investment except to be a source of cash.” Bill Moorman writes that “In addition to the Norwich and the ‘Left Coast’ luncheons, there is also a small Midwest group which meets sporadi-cally in Kansas City. Actually, three of us have met twice for lunch at Plaza III in Kansas City, but if any classmate is in the area, we’d be happy to try to arrange another luncheon. Bryant Barnes, Bob Hatch and I are the only three ‘60’s that we know of in the area. Bryant and Bob live in KC and are still employed, so I’d be happy to volunteer to answer the flood of inquiries that might come from classmates clamoring to come to Kansas City!” The new ’60 Flyover Country Lunch Club is for all of you smart enough to live in the Midwest. [Bill is at bmoorman60@gmail.com.]“By the way,” continues Bill, “Bob Hatch has done some interesting things in his life, kind of low key and behind the scenes. You should google FINCA and get a brief resume of his accomplish-ments.”Which I did: “Robert W. Hatch serves as Chair-man of FINCA International. He is also the Chair-man and CEO of Cereal Ingredients, Inc., a spe-cialty food ingredients manufacturer he founded in 1990. He is also CEO for two other companies he founded which are located in Kansas City, CII Laboratory Services and Maverick Converting. Mr. Hatch serves on the board of these three companies plus FINCA and the Healthy Back Store. He previ-ously served as Chairman, President and CEO of Interstate Bakeries Corporation, a wholesale baker with $1.1 billion in sales, 36 plants, 650 retail stores and 15,000 employees. Prior to that, he spent 22 years with General Mills, Inc., reaching the po-sition of Executive Vice President. Mr. Hatch holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Tuck School. He has been married to his high school sweetheart, Nancy, for 45 years and they have two children.” The prestigious (but non-existent) Class of ’60 Award for Dangerous and Outrageous Behavior, long the property of Peter Hawks, or maybe Dud Weider, almost surely goes now to Alan and Silvia Danson, seen in one of the attached photos being

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outrageous and endangered in Queenstown, New Zealand in early April. Emails Alan:

“Silvia and I just returned from a six week jaunt downunder. We had a wonderful time -- and thought you might get a chuckle from these photos. P.S. See son Rob’s new website: www.robdanson.com and listen to his film scores there.”

Tom Marx died on March 30 of pancreatic cancer at home in Cambridge, MA, surrounded by his family. He was 73. He was born in New York City of a father who was a first genera-tion American and a mother who left Germany because of Nazi persecution.After Scarsdale High and a

B.A. in English at Dartmouth he went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. A consulting statistician and computer programmer, he gave his time unstintingly to the profession he loved and to the hundreds of programmers, whether young or mid-career, who sought his help as a mentor. He was past president of both the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association and the Boston Area SAS Users Group.Tom was a devoted family man. He and Linda have three children, Anastacia, Sean and Melleta and six much loved grandchildren.Tom was always an avid learner, an orientation to life that served him well at Dartmouth and through-

out an adult life in which he never lost his appetite to enrich himself through learning and embracing new meanings. Thus it is not surprising, though most impressive, that at age 64 he prepared himself for his bar mitzvah and at age 70 began the study of violin. He was a lifelong runner (including the Boston Marathon) and avid explorer, whether it was a foreign country or his own town.Wrote Alan Danson: “Tom was a gentle soul -- a philosopher and a lover of poetry, like his mother who was a published poet. He was well-read and enjoyed discussing literature, and was beloved by all his Brothers at Zeta Psi.”Said Andy Paul, Tom’s classmate at Scarsdale High: “ I was thrilled to see Tom at our 50th high school reunion. He gave me a copy of his mother’s recently published book of poetry. I devoured it when we got home and let Tom know how much I thought of it. I had known his mother quite well, too. She was a brilliant and sensitive person, quali-ties that she handed down to Tom and which made him so endearing.”Bill McCarter writes that he attended Tom’s funeral service. “Over 20 family, friends, and busi-ness acquaintances spoke at length. The reflections clearly portrayed the remarkable life and character of Tom.”A wonderful collection of tributes to Tom, assem-bled by his daughter Anastacia, speaks volumes of the high regard in which he was held by a lifetime of friends. Wrote one, “If we could all be a little more like Tom, the world would be a much kinder and safer place.” And from a colleague at work, “…always such a good, kind and thoughtful man, always ready with a warm smile,” and “…the most gentle kind of gentlemen,” “an exemplar for me of a holy life, well-lived.”A nice note from Jim Marlow in Mattapoisett, MA: “I enjoyed the latest newsletter, especially the short bio. by my good friend Bill Modahl, with whom I agree about almost everything except national politics. It was he who,

Dansons paragliding in NZ

Atop the Sydney Harbor Bridge

Tom Marx

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after I took the LSAT and asked whether I should go to law school, joked that there were already so many lawyers it was likely to be the first profession placed on welfare. I chose graduate school in Eng-lish, starting at Tulane, where I met the wonderful Corinne Carter Thomas, whom I married 26 years later. Both Bill and I were involved in the great Harvard band caper of 1957. My greatest regret of that day is that our dye failed to turn the Charles from its murky green to a bright Dartmouth green. “Besides hearing Robert Frost say his poems, an-other lasting memory is the powerful effect of Cliff Ebrahim ’59 in Of Mice and Men. That perfor-mance opened my eyes to what drama was capable of. Belatedly (40 years later), I let my career morph at last toward theatre, and am now teaching drama and playwriting at the University of Massa-chusetts, Dartmouth. I am also writing plays. My latest, The Scene of Dreams Bar and Grill, NOLA, is receiving a staged reading at the Actors Theatre, Charlotte, NC, about August 10, 2012. It was a finalist in the competition called NuVoices for a NuGeneration. Who says that we cannot say some-thing new at 74? If any classmates are in the area, I’d love support.”George Liebmann has a new book out, The Last American Diplomat, John Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy. It’s available from Palgrave Macmillan, www.palgrave-usa.com. George is also author of Diplomacy between the Wars, Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World, from the same publisher. George had an op-ed piece in the Baltimore Sun which was then picked up by our local Val-ley News. Title: “Norquist’s No-Tax Pledge Has Failed to ‘Starve the Beast.’” George is a Balti-more lawyer and the volun-teer executive director of the Calvert Institute for Policy Research. Classmate Cliff Anderson died at age 73 of brain can-cer on March 15, 2012, at his home in San Antonio, Texas. Cliff was born in Berkeley, California on November 15,

1938. He was raised in Altadena, California, where he attended John Muir High School. He attended Dartmouth on a U.S. Naval Scholarship and was a member of Alpha Theta fraternity. After graduation in 1960, Cliff was commissioned into the U.S. Marine Corps and served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hancock. In 1967 he entered the FBI as Special Agent. He spent most of his career in New Orleans, where he was Supervisor for Civil Rights in Louisiana. After he retired, he continued contract work with the FBI. In 2006, after Hurricane Katrina, he moved with his wife Nancy to San Antonio. A person of incredible kindness and integrity, Cliff loved most of all being with his family. He and Nancy took many international adventure trips, especially to his favorite place, the Tyrolean Alps. He cherished his children Michael and Kathryn, and delighted in being a grandfather to his three beloved grandchildren. Cliff had a passion for coin collecting, especially bi-metallic coins, and made many friends with similar numismatic obsessions throughout the world. He loved to hike, and was an enthusiastic member of the Sierra Club. Cliff is survived by his wife of 50 years, Nancy Fix Anderson, son Michael, daughter Kathryn, three grandchildren, and his mother, Maxine An-derson. You guys chortle when I suggest a mini reunion in Cleveland. But if you’re bored with golf, the NFL, and the “New York Times,” consider this from Shel Gisser: “I happen to be a Cleveland promoter and love this place. The cultural stuff alone makes this place unbeatable. For instance, we saw the Cleve-land Orchestra production of Don Giovani about a week ago, went to a terrific exhibit of Japanese and Korean art at the Museum on Tuesday; went to the orchid exhibit at the Botanical Garden a week or so ago; going to the orchestra tonight; saw a play at the Playhouse last Thursday; went to a great exhib-it of student art at the Cleve Inst. of Art a week or two ago; going to a modern dance concert tomor-row night and chamber music concert on Tuesday. And there are dozens of things we can’t get to….“There are a number of other live theaters going constantly of a range of talent; there are frequent Cliff Anderson

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concerts at the Cleveland Institute of Music. There’s so much going on that I can’t get to see some of the movies I want to see and I have to wait for them to come out on TV. We’ve taken a few nice hikes (walks?) in the Metro parks when the weather allowed it, too.” The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is clearly not Shel’s cup of tea, but it’s in Cleveland. And the river fire got doused about a hundred years ago. So no snide remarks about Cleveland. Just ask Cowan, Fairbank, Lew Goodman, Crumbine, Freedman, Harris, Greer, Adler, and too many others to mention. Fortunately, there is plenty to see and do in Seattle besides fish throwing when we celebrate our 75th. Stay tuned. In May we and the ’10s again presented certificates (with checks to follow) to senior studio art majors, purchasing some of their work for permanent display in dorms and other buildings around the campus. This is a program that everyone seems to love, the students, the art department, the Office of Residential Life, and our Class. I have received carefully written thank-you notes from over a dozen students, a segment of our society not exactly known for writing thank-you notes.Here’s a small sampling of their comments: “It means so much to all of us seniors to have our hard work recognized, as well as to know that our work will always have a home here at the college.” “The Class of 1960 ORL purchase award that I received for one of my drawings was both an exciting honor and encouragement to continue my study and love of Art beyond the undergraduate level.” “Dart-mouth does not always seem very supportive of its artists and it is heartening to be reminded that at least part of the community values what we do.”

At the award presentation and recep-tion, over 500 students crammed the Hop’s Jaffe-Friede Gallery, probably more than attend the average home football and basketball games! “I was amazed at the crowd,” wrote Roger Hanlon. “I’ll bet our classmates…..don’t realize how popular a program it is.” Profes-sor of Studio Art Jerry Auten wrote us afterward: “Wow what a crowd on Tuesday. It was great to see you and the other 60’s there. The support your class gives to our students is so appreciated by all of us, especially the students themselves. Isn’t it great to see the pride on their faces as they walk up to receive the award? Honestly this is my favorite event of the year.” You can make a small (large, too) contribution to this program when you next pay your Class dues. And you can view these and other photos of these art majors’ works in color on our Class website.This from Jack Sommer, in February, leading me to wonder why anyone would choose to live down south where warm weather constantly reminds you of the flowers and vegetables you’re supposed to be planting, while those up north can relax in comfort with a good book, a warm fire, and a clear conscience. Writes Jack, “I see that even more snow is heading your way and may even brush us here on its way, however, today was a golf day at 67 and sunny. Our poor daffodils are going to pay for this I fear. Even so Diane and I are planting let-tuce tomorrow before the rains come.“Wishing you a cozy hearth and a lot of good reading. Please tell Laura-Beth that the Dartmouth Bible rests by bedside of the principal guest room and it has engendered some nice comments.” Note: Dartmouth Bibles and other old Dartmouth publications are often available at a major used book sale here in April. Prices are below

Kayla Gilbert ’12 and paintings

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inexpensive. Let me know if you are ever looking for a Dartmouth Bible—that’s how Jack replaced his missing copy—or anything else on Dartmouth. Laura-Beth is much involved in the book sale and can often spot something during the sorting and pricing phase.About a year out of date, but no less interesting, from Bob Farmer: “Where to begin. Two months ago I had a heart attack. They put me in an am-bulance to the nearest regional hospital. When I arrived the surgeon asked me if I drank. ‘Yes.’ I re-sponded. ‘How much?’ he asked. ‘Oh, two glasses of scotch and two glasses of wine.’ ‘A week?’ he asked. ‘Oh, no.. every day.’ Since then no cigarettes, some exercise and diet. Amazing what they can do. Fifty years ago they’d have given me morphine and hoped I lasted the night. Now they go in through your groin and unclog your arteries, put in two stents.... and I’m good to go.“Two weeks ago my partner and I won the mem-ber golf tournament at our club. I had a natural par and birdie on the two play off holes with a stroke on each. Hiley and Alvord (not to mention Bubba Watson) would be impressed since I couldn’t hit it a lick at re-union.“Last week I was in St. Louis for the summer national gin rummy championship. I won and collected some good cash. In the spring I came in third so I have a good chance to win the national championship this year.“September 30th [2011] I’m off to Little Rock for a re-union celebrating President Clinton’s an-nouncement for president which was 20 years ago. Mack McLarty, who was chief of staff, is hosting a private dinner with the Clintons. I don’t see them much anymore so it will be fun to catch up. I’ve enjoyed reading the Musings.”John Goyette, our newly designated (by me) Class Flower Child, has a new philosophy of life: “I’ve taken a new approach as befits our chronology. Even with skiing I tend to ‘savor’ everything more. Why is everyone in such a rush? Now, if I look in my rear view and see a vehicle stuck like Velcro on my bumper, I pull over. Geez!!! Margie and I have climbed 30 of NH’s 48 4000 footers.

She makes such a delicious lunch, it’s worth get-ting to the summit.”Brother John also shares his views on the Occupy movement: “I learned long ago the courage it takes to buck the establishment. In early 1970’s Hardy Bros. Construction Co was planning to develop a floodplain in Norwich and build houses all along Blood Brook, thus taking away fishing access for kids age 12 and under. I was a minority of one. At a meeting in Norwich I sat by myself, alone on the right side of the aisle. More than 100 others sat on the left, including Dan & Whit.“Would you believe Dan called me to say that if I didn’t ‘shut up’ they would force us out of town?? In spite of that we eventually prevailed. Wah Hoo Wah!”[Which brings to mind something Jack Hodgson sent a long time back: “Last time I was in front of Dan & Whit’s, one farmer said to another that ‘the problem with VT was theya too many women with hyphenated names.’” ]“No,” continues Brother Goyette, “these OWS folks are heroes to me. Maybe nobody is listening. The same blindness that keeps a town from doing anything about the road curve until 15 people die consumes the country now. These demonstrators are saying ‘wake up, the system is broken.’ All ‘isms’ have their day...fascism, communism, so-cialism...now it’s capitalism’s turn. With 1/6 of the country living in poverty, it gives the Development Office joy to see all those Wall Street types receiv-ing year-end $20 million bonuses for screwing up. Tell me the system isn’t perverted when hedge fund managers like John Henry make fortunes over people losing money. And he pays no new taxes!! Yuck!“The middle class is dying in the USA. I’ve lived in the barrios of Brazil and Peru and the townships of S. Africa, and seen what it’s like to have only 1% of the wealth divided by 99% of the popula-tion. And that’s the direction this country is headed.Yup, fat ole, on the dole from Fannie/Freddy, Newt Gingrich called the OWS demonstrators ‘slobs’. “Well Mayor Bloomberg got them some porta potties. They are doing the country a favor. Not so

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Newt who wants to deregulate the ‘clean’ bank-ing industry and the real scum like BP. I think the USA is not far away from the violence we are see-ing in the Middle East and Greece.” And, finally from Monsieur Goyette: “The news is I’m going back into the class room [in March] for 4 weeks of intensive French language classes at the Alliance Francais in Nice. Wish me luck…. Con-necting with my dad’s French Canadian heritage is something I always wanted to do. It’s a little out of my comfort zone, but what the heck! “I remember struggling with freshman French where, in his best Minnesota accent, Bill Hibbs greeted our professor with ‘Bon jower, mon sew-er’. I was worse with my New Hampshire accent. I’ve already been assigned a host family in Nice. He’s 86, his wife is 71.”You will all recall, I trust, the metal trays off which we ate in College Hall in 1956 and later in Thayer. Peter Erwin will surely remember his beautiful Gail, RIP, having all but set off a riot when visiting Dartmouth our freshman year and one of us—who?––and then the rest of us started

clanging silverware on the trays. Not our best moment. Well, when Thayer was recently remodeled by the Class of ’53, it seems

some half-dozen or so trays were found in storage somewhere. Rightly deemed of trophy quality, one went to President Kim, several to major ’53 donors, and one, for some reason or other, to our Barry Betters. Here he stands, before his mighty pickup truck (six mile per gallon) with his suitably framed prize. The caption on the card reads, “This is an original food tray used in Thayer Dining Hall at the time Barry K. Betters was a student at Dartmouth College, 1956-1960.” Any trace of Miss Gill’s mystery meat was gone. Who

wouldn’t like to have one of those to hang on his wall? In the garage, maybe?Check out Ray Pong’s “Lifespan Calculator” http://media.nmfn.com/tnetwork/lifespan/From Harpswell, ME, Alan Shaver sends the fol-lowing: “For someone approaching his mid-70’s, life is good. We have our health, are financially se-cure and comfortable, and have time to do what we like. I am presently involved in the most exciting project of my entire career, brought about because of activities in my community and association with SCORE, Counselors to America’s Small Business.“The project is to establish on-land, 21st century cutting-edge technology, and sustainable aqua-culture on a 120-acre piece of land the Town of Harpswell acquired some years ago from the US Navy, now called Mitchell Field, in honor of Sena-tor George Mitchell who arranged the transfer to the Town from the Navy. “You can learn much about this project by visit-ing its website – www.harpswelloceaniccenter.org – and the team of people involved. I am one of the least important, but have the privilege of helping the project deal with legal issues and to develop its ambitious business plan. Most exciting about the project is the plan to take existing re-circulating aquaculture well beyond current practice to achieve an environmentally secure and clean means to produce large quantities of fish and other marine products that will support not only significant revenue to the Town, but substantial well-paying employment for a number of residents, ranging from skilled blue-collar to Ph.D. marine biologists.“Finally, the plan puts together both a for-profit business model with a non-profit educational and research center....We believe Harpswell Oceanic Center will become….a model for sustainable, clean and safe production of seafood. “Two other pieces of ‘news.’ After five years our daughter and her family have returned to living in the US. Although we enjoyed visiting them in Switzerland and London, it is good to have them only 2 ½ hours by car from us. And, after 16 years living in Maine, this past winter persuaded us to flee to warmer climes for at least a month this next

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winter. It will be easier to face the coming winter knowing a lovely condo on the Isle of Palms in South Carolina awaits us in March, 2012.”“I truly appreciate Dick Levy’s comments on healthcare reform” [in a previous Newsletter] writes Ken Taber, “comprehensive and in line with my views as an advocate for a single payer sys-tem…. Classmates can go to www.kta4careers.com to get the rest of my wanderings. Connie continues as the HR Director for a healthcare Assisted Living and REhab facility. She works harder than I.”Tom Andrews offers this comment on health care and more: “I was very impressed by the panel discussion at the 50th, and especially appreciate Dick Levy’s continuing leadership, including his thoughtful contribution to the newsletter. I am also proud that Dartmouth is taking such a seri-ous lead in the effort to find ways to improve the outcome of health care while at the same time reducing the cost. I think we have already demon-strated that this is more than possible, and does not in any way involve ‘rationing.’ My concern about making real progress lies in what seems to me to be the media’s obsession with meaningless public rhetoric. For every minute they devote to covering the kind of principled, evidence-based research and initiatives being taken by Dartmouth and others, they devote hours to people shouting epithets at each other. Not a formula for progress, I fear.“Finally, I have been privileged to join the Alumni Council for a three year term, as the representative of the Mid Atlantic Region of the Alumni Clubs. The Piedmont North Carolina Alumni Club has been my principal involvement in alumni activities since I moved to the Triangle area in 1970. This is a great opportunity to continue to be involved.”Reg Regestein offers further views on health care: “The debt ceiling crisis suggests democracy works better for small, homogeneous populations. Increased diversity within a nation and cultural dif-ferences among constituencies make disagreements more likely to be irreconcilable. Globalization and immigration aggravate the problem. We all need to figure out how to leave our comfort zones enough to amicably live together.

“I’ve been settled into my new position for two years, after I and all my colleagues in our hospital’s outpatient Psychiatry clinic were laid off. The old ways of taking care of patients must go away if health care costs are to come down. Because of the legal milieu, changing personnel means firing all staff and then hiring people who apply for places in the reformed organization. “The news keeps shouting that U.S. health care expenses are double those of any other nation, yet our morbidity and mortality rates peg us at about the 50th healthiest country. Fully half of illness here is now self-induced, i.e. our nation has a psy-chiatric problem. The high prevalence of strokes and heart attacks results from hordes of indolent couch potatoes who live on chips, cheeseburgers and ice cream. The obesity epidemic has induced a diabetes epidemic. “For the first time ever, the younger generation may not live as long as its parents did. (This im-plies lower future Social Security payments than planners think.) Our health problem comes from our ineffective education system and lopsided household income distribution. Few educated people smoke. Educated, employed people tend to control their weight better and exercise more than poor people do. “It is hard for doctors to treat obesity because fat people tend to underreport what they eat and over-report how much they exercise. I’m trying to find a cheap, convenient way to objectively mea-sure how much energy (calories) a patient spends pursuing everyday life. I and my MIT collaborators are finding ways to translate the output of a small body activity monitor into calories the patient who wears it spends per day. Our group must now find support to develop a clinical product that would be commercially available to monitor peoples’ energy expenditure. Such a product would answer a huge clinical need.”Bill Gould and son last July “took a 7 day white water rafting trip though the lower Grand Canyon. It started with a 9.5 mile hike in 110 degree temperature down the Bright Angel Trail to get to the river. Then 100 miles of white water rafting

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with a group of 24 with 8 crew. We slept under the stars for 6 nights (no tents) and watched the bats buzz us while falling asleep. Many side hikes up small feeder canyons over boulders and up streams. The next oldest person was

20 years younger than I, and the average age of the whole group was about 35. I did try to keep up!!” [Having rafted some of the Colorado myself, I concluded that after you’ve been through the Grand Canyon, you realize there is only one place that deserves to be called “spectacular.”]In February, writes Hap Dunning, “…the Left Coast group met for lunch at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, one of nine seminaries which make up the Graduate Theological Union. Dave Sammons, now chairing the board of PSR, was our host. We had a fascinating discussion of the state of contemporary theological education, led by Dave and PSR’s director of development. Those pres-ent, in addition to Rev. Dave and the PSR official, were Lee Horschman, Ed Berkowitz, Margaret and Bob Caulfield, Inta and Bruce Hasenkamp, Carolyn Geiger and Hap Dunning, Dick Levy and Rick Roesch. Unfortunately Rick was on crutches as a result of a skiing accident at Deer Valley a few days earlier.”This June, reports Hap, the “Left Coasters had another grand event, one beautifully organized by Bob Caulfield [he of “Burning Man” fame]. Bob has spent many years in the symphony world, and he invited two staff members from the San Fran-cisco Symphony to lunch with us and discuss their organization. One of them, Larry Rothe, in honor of the SF Symphony’s centennial, recently au-thored ‘Music for a City, Music for the World.’“Those present were Karl and Valerie Mayer, Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp, Dick Foley, Ed Berkowitz, Dick and Luisiana Gale, Dave and Jan

Sammons, Peter Farquhar, Bob and Margaret Caulfield, Hap Dunning and Carolyn Geiger, and Roger Hackley.”“Life treats me well,” writes Dan Wilkinson. “Still working full time, played the banjo with a country guy named Bill Dean in the Bohemian Grove in July [2011] and joining him in October at the Gargiulo Vineyards in Napa Valley. Hopefully somewhere in my travels I’ll connect with some ’60s!” Dan is at dwilkinson@colliersws.com

Beardsley Ruml, a Dartmouth grad of many years ago, dreamed up the idea of income tax with-holding, bless his soul, and sold it to FDR in the early ’40s. Now, we note there is again tenuous Dartmouth connection to US fiscal policy and our growing national debt. Thanks to Gene Kohn for this one: “We are all proud of what our kids are doing, but Al Zients may take the cake.“You may have seen that Daley left the Chief of Staff job for our dear [sic] President. He was replaced by Jack Lew who came over from OMB. Lew was replaced by one Jeff Zients who is now the Acting Director of OMB, a Cabinet level job. Al tells me that it will be ‘Acting’ to the end of this term since no one thinks a new appointment can be approved.”Dick Levy, in an exchange with Jack Sommer, relates an interesting and instructive tale concern-ing academia: “In around 1985 I wanted to take a sabbatical from Varian. I called Fred Webster, our old fraternity brother, who was assistant dean of the Tuck School at Dartmouth. I offered to teach a one semester course on Marketing in the high tech world. They wouldn’t have to pay me, just find me a place to stay in Hanover.“Webster responded with an invitation to give one lecture. He pointed out that the faculty was opposed to people from the business world teach-ing courses at the business school, as it was a threat to their jobs. The students apparently wanted more to hear from business people than from their professors.“That has been borne out recently, as I am giv-ing lectures at Santa Clara U. and at Stanford. The

Gould and son in the Canyon

kids are so enthusiastic, that it’s a tremendous pleasure for me. I do it for free and love it. And the kids seem to love it.“I do question the statement about politicians, especially Democrats, being the kind of academ-ics described in the article. My impression of Washington these days is that both sides are di-vorced from the real world and neither side has a strong claim on real world experience, on running companies, or creating real value in goods and services. They are lawyers, lifetime politicians, real estate investors, money managers, etc. Most people who have experienced the real business world, wouldn’t want to set foot in Washington.“But I must add that all business people aren’t that wonderful either. There is a significant amount of fraud, unethical behavior, outright greed, and political game-playing. I’m convinced that part of the reason that business is over-regulated, is that a small part of the business community brought it on itself by cooking the books, misleading customers, and other corrupt practices. And it’s still happen-ing every day on Wall Street, in the pharmaceuti-cal industry, in the insurance industry, and even in medical equipment companies. In my experience as many as 10% of the high level business people are not to be trusted to do the ‘right’ thing for all their constituencies all the time. There are some who would say 30%.”Subsequently, Dick expanded his views on busi-ness people: “Very few business people are crimi-nals, although my comments could be construed that way. However, some business people are more extreme than others at emphasizing short term profit over doing what’s best for employees, cus-tomers, long term investors, and society at large. I am not a believer that greed, as an end in itself, is how capitalism is supposed to work. I am a be-liever, as was Adam Smith, that self interest must be tempered by the common good for capitalism to thrive in the long term. I fear many have strayed from that philosophy.”From Bruce Hasenkamp: “I second [Dick] Chase’s recommendation of Nate Fick’s book,

which is terrific. Nate is also a good guy, and I’m glad he’ll be a trustee. A fine choice.“I liked and agree with the comments about ROTC. I had some great courses in the program (and some that were not at a College level) and admired the PMS&T Col. Harold Moorman, with whom I have stayed in touch. He is a learned and dignified man. While I doubt that I would have signed up for ROTC but for the threat of the draft, my two years on active duty plunked me in Ko-rea, which led to a lifetime of fascination with and pleasure in things Korean and a major collection of Korean ceramic art, which is now in the University of Michigan Museum of Art. (Dartmouth was not interested.)”More from Hasenkamp (a president gets extra coverage, as those of you with a television set should be notic-ing these days): “Our Commencement speaker, Whitney North Seymour, was Thad’s father and president of the American Bar Association….After Stanford Law School, I was a starting lawyer in Seymour’s firm….and had the opportunity to get to know Thad’s dad, my ultimate boss.” Thad was back in Hanover July 4, 2011.The Class website address shown on the first page should work fine, but if you have any problems, try http://www.dartmouth60.org/ As I have said too many times, viewing the ’60 Newsletter on the website can be a lot more satisfying. The prose will be as bad as ever, but the photos will look a hundred times better.Some will surely remember “Jay” (Joel) Baker, long out of touch, but no longer: “Over the years I’ve enjoyed hearing about how the lives of all ’60’s that graduated turned out. However, as one who didn’t graduate, I’d be interested to hear from

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Thad is (was) back.

those who also didn’t, Don Bayles, for one in particular. Knowing the persistence of the College, I wonder if it has maintained any connection with him and others like us. As accomplished as the graduates have been, I just

wonder about the rest. We all chose different paths, and in many of our cases possibly more interesting…? “As for myself, I left after two years. I had won-dered if I couldn’t do better than my C-average, but, having graduated from an excellent private high school, other than lectures by Prof. Sears in physics and Rosenstock-Huesy in philosophy, I couldn’t get turned on. Then, after three years in the Army, you couldn’t keep me out of the library, which happened to be at Columbia in NYC. I had transferred to the night school division, and there received a liberal arts education second to none. From there back home to Seattle for medical school and then 30 + years doing surgery in a small town north of Seattle. “Now I drive a ’65 Ford Falcon, collect classi-cal vinyl records, ride a bicycle 16-20 miles most days, and support a trophy wife (16 years my younger) with care of our home in Skagit Valley and our townhouse in Seattle. She’s a surgical nurse who paints (www.kathleenritzart.com) and also bicycles. We have 4 children, all doing well, and 3 of 4 living within several hours’ drive. Life is good !! Greetings to all.” Jay’s email: <jbaker-biker@comcast.net> The peripatetic David Horn checks in: “The news-letter just caught up with me…. Unfortunately, so many pages filled with obits. Guess life is catching up with us. I know I’m 73 and except for increas-ing girth (I just love to eat good food) and a few pains in the morning, I don’t feel like it at all.” Well, as Shel Gisser tells us, “A friend, slightly older than us, told me, ‘I woke up this morning and nothing hurt; no aches, no pains....I thought I was dead.’”

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Brother Horn will be “in Eugene, OR, home of the Ducks, for a week or so getting motorhome annual services done. Then on to Anacortes, WA for the rest of the summer. Only road trip from there will be 10 days in July up to Calgary with an RV group for the Stampede. Should be fun.” He lives differently from the rest of us.A most interesting tale from Loren “Jake” Jacobson: “See-ing a few items in the May 2012 class newsletter on ROTC prompts me to write. I was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the USAF through ROTC at Dartmouth. I took a delay from active duty and obtained an MS in Ceramic Engineering from UC Berkeley, entering active duty in February, 1962. About three years later the AF sent me back to Berkeley for a PhD in Metallurgy, and after that I owed 9 more years active duty, so I spent about 4 more free years and retired as a Lt Col in November, 1982. My last active duty years were spent as a program manager in the Materials Division at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.“In my last year at DARPA, the Metallurgy manager at NBS, now NIST, came to visit and asked whether I would be willing to sponsor a sabbatical for Danny Shechtman, a professor at the Technion in Israel. I had worked with Danny some years earlier, and so it was not a problem to consider sponsoring him, until I learned that his research would involve Rapid Solidification Technology, which at the time was on a Critical Technologies list, not for export. I called around to various officials in the DoD hierarchy, and each told me that I would have to make up my own mind as to whether or not to sponsor him. I knew that he was going to do something quite fundamental, and decided that basic research of this nature should probably be exempt from export control, so I agreed to sponsor him.

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“In April of 1982, Danny came to my office and showed me an electron diffraction pattern from a rapidly solidfied Aluminum-Manganese alloy, that exhibited 5-fold rotational symmetry. Under nor-mal circumstances, this is forbidden, since objects with such symmetry cannot fill space...a 2D exam-ple would be to try to tile a floor with pentagons... cannot be done and completely cover the floor. He had discovered a substance that subsequently was called a ‘quasicrystal’ and it was so controversial, it took two more years, until 1984, for a journal to accept his paper for publication.“You can imagine my surprise on learning last fall that Danny had been awarded the Chemistry Nobel Prize for the discovery of quasicrystals. It is very satisfying to recall that I sponsored his work, and that I went out on a limb to do so. “I have always felt that ROTC, especially at col-leges like Dartmouth, provides a few officers who do not fit the ‘mold,’ and thus contribute to the security of our country by having a few abilities not conferred by the service academies. I sincerely hope that sometime soon Dartmouth will once again welcome the military services on campus as ROTC instructors, and students will take advan-tage of this unique opportunity to serve.”

Rafter Jack Patterson’s unique Native American linguistics have been absent from these pages of late, but here he is for those of you who like puzzles.Says Patsy: Is Breyer, my daughter- at Axeman Island (Canadian south...) Is practice for her wedding….I may

head to river in a week …. May go via Rome NY where

Fort Schuyler and portage to Wood Creek from the upper reaches of the Mohawk River are (were)- and nearby battle of Oriskany. Too, Onondaga ‘castle’ of Onondaga Indians the central tribe of

the Iroquois ‘family’ (Ho-de-no-sau-nee) on Lake Onondaga. “They- Onondaga, keepers of the tribal (Iro-quois) fire- literally fire that is never put out...Is more for me of learning who the Indian was who greeted the white man- his nature. Comes directly almost from my years long, now, attachments to H.D. Thoreau and his fascination with the, then, red man.”Russ Ingersoll reports that we received late notice of the passing of Chuck Shevchick on June 16, 2009 in Itasca, Illinois of causes unknown to us. He is survived by his wife Frances and four chil-dren: William, Michael, Tracy, and Christopher.Chuck came to Dartmouth from Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He majored in Russian Civilization, was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, and played football his freshman and sophomore years. Following graduation he was not much in touch with the class or his Phi Gam friends, and sadly we were never able to draw him back in to the class fellowship.Chuck was in Army ROTC for four years. Fol-lowing his military service he settled in Arlington, Illinois until he moved to Itasca, where he died in 2009 and is buried. Our sympathies are extended to his family. May Chuck rest in peace. [If classmates have additional information on Chuck, please send it to Russ at rustyi@zebray.com] New contact information:Mike McGinnis: 102 Cunningham Hill Rd. Canaan, NY 112029; 518-781-0066michaelmcginnis@fairpoint.netThere is still more—good grief, it never ends––on the Harvard Band Caper of 1957, from John Omaha, Peter Hawks, and maybe others, but you’ll just have to wait it out until a fall edition.We have had, recently, a raft of deaths in the class, and you don’t need to read about what

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to expect in the future. Ken Reich told us all that a few years ago. We should be thankful to Russ Ingersoll and Ken Taber for putting together obituaries in a timely fashion for this Newsletter and the College. It is largely a thankless job, but we are all in their debt. Like being nice to your kids because they’re going to pick your nursing home, we should be extra nice to Messrs. Ingersoll and Taber.We are off to Ontario until Labor Day but will be able to collect email and snail mail from time to time. Please keep ‘em coming, to me and to John Mitchell (jmm00033@comcast.net), who writes our Class Notes for the Alumni Magazine. And two more reminders. Have a look at this Newsletter on the Class website so you can at least see what the photos are meant to look like. Finally, come on up (or down if you live in Canada) for Home-coming, October 26-28.Have a good and healthy summer, everyone. Enjoy your warm showers as we try again to enjoy a cold Canadian lake.dg

Homecoming 2011

Jelineks and Hodgsons

Hasenkamp and Levy

Kohn and Mitchell

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