The Dartmouth College Class of 1966 Newsletter Volume 48, Number Two November 2012

Fifty years separate, but they also bind the Class of 1966 with the Class of 2016. We may look old to them (like grandparents, perhaps), but the newest Dartmouth classmates are beginning to understand that, yes, we are family, and yes, they are a Class.

“What’s the BEST Class?” “SIXTEEN!” What’s the best Class of the LAST half-century?” “SIXTY-SIX!” These shouts were heard repeatedly under a tent in front of Parkhurst Hall as successive groups of about 30 new stu-dents emerged from their matriculation and were welcomed by a group of ‘66s and were given a “D ‘16” lapel pin to wear on special occasions. They learned about a few past traditions (saw our freshman beanies) and now

know our expectations that they will uphold some enduring traditions, e.g., the Homecoming bonfire. Many of them had already discovered the Class of ’66 Webcam and stayed at the Class of ’66 Lodge. It was a warm oc-casion on a chilly but beautiful day.

Many ’66 Classmates have been involved, so far, in connecting with the newest “stuff” of our institution. Over 1,000 lapel pins were unwrapped, pinned onto a gift card, and stuffed into a small green velvet bag at Chuck Sherman’s house by Stan Colla, Paul Klee, Mark Blanchard, Al Keiller, Dennis Kaufman and Bill Risso.

Along Route ’66

President: Al KeillerVice-President: Jim Lustenader Secretary: Larry Geiger Treasurer: Jim Weiskopf Alumni Council: John Rollins Head Agent: Bob Spence Mini-Reunions: Bob Serenbetz Webmaster: Ben Day 2016 Connections: Chuck ShermanNewsletter Editors: Erv Burkholder Bob Cohn etburk@gmail.comClass Website: www.dartmouth66.org

Class Connections Off and Runningby Chuck Sherman

Bill Risso greets members of the incoming Class of '16 in front of Parkhurst

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Twelve Classmates plus two wives and two dogs helped cook dinners for over 100 freshpeople over 10 days in the Second College Grant: Doug Hill (and Alexandra), Dick Birnie, Jim Nutt, Jeff Gilbert, Steve Lanfer, Terry Lowd, Bob Serenbetz, Dick McClure, Stu Schweitzer, Bob Spence, Lance Ta-pley (and Peggy), and Chuck Sherman. (See following article.)

During Orientation Week Chuck Sherman and Jennifer Casey ‘66a staffed a table at the Information Expo in Leverone Fieldhouse where new students and parents learned about lots of campus and town offices, or-ganizations and businesses – including our Class Connections Program.

On Matriculation Day, Hector Motroni (and Myra), Bill Risso (and Sharon), Terry Lowd, Paul Klee, Jennifer Casey and Chuck Sherman met nearly the entire 1,100 mem-bers of the Class of 2016 between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Afterwards our delegation was invited into the President’s Office and thanked.!Two great Classes are just now becoming acquainted. In the four years ahead, we will plan and do more together. In June 2016 we will celebrate! On the steps of Parkhurst with our 37th (and last)

group of '16s (absent Hector Motroni)

Terry Lowd, Paul Klee, Interim President Carol Folt, Chuck Sherman, and Bill Rissoin the Dartmouth President's Office

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Connections Program at the Second College GrantMemo from the Far North

by Doug Hill

For 12 days in late August and early September, a team (“Croo”) of ’66s resided at the Second College Grant, meet-ing and feeding our 50-year class, the 2016s. About 175 dinners and many stories were served to 11 different first-year trip groups.

The project was sparked by my late friend and Grant regular Peter Herman ’58. Peter, with former Dean of the Col-lege Ralph Manuel ’58, performed a much smaller experi-ment with their 50 year class, 2008. After informal discus-sions during our fall 2011 reunion, and a notice in the News-letter, about 25 classmates indicated strong interest. Fif-teen classmates ultimately participated for 3 to 6 days each.

The idea was to initiate our 4-year long Connections program (chaired overall by Dartmoose Chuck Sherman) by meeting DOC first-year trip groups, serving them dinner, telling them a bit about the Grant, and regaling them with stories (some true) about our undergraduate days. The venue was the “Management Center”, the largest of the Grant cabin facilities. The MC, with a large kitchen, great room seating 18, and several bedrooms for the Croo, was ideal.

Planning was interesting, as no class has ever attempted such a project. With the help of the Outdoor Programs Office and DOC, we reserved the MC, and designated individual DOC ’16 trips for each evening program. The trips, averaging 10 first-years plus 2 upperclass leaders, were themed canoeing, nature writing, and fishing. The DOC Grant leadership group made sure the sched-ule worked.

We focused on showing the ‘16s that there is life after 22, and that some of the old guys (and some exceptional spouses) have and still are doing really interesting things. Such as hanging out with them.

Three classmates served shifts as Exalted Executive Chef: Terry Lowd (who really figured out the food service), Moose, and Bob Spence. Amazing food including lobsters the first night, and Bob’s superb chicken. The kitchen help included Dick McClure, Jim Nutt, Bob Serenbetz, Jeff Gilbert, Dick Birnie, Stu Schweitzer, Steve Lanfer, Lance and Peggy Tapley, and Don Ries. I stayed for the 12-day period (a true pleasure) and my wife, Alexandra Breed, helped over the Labor Day Weekend.

I asked College Forester Kevin Evans, who man-ages the Grant, to come and tell the ‘16s about the Grant. Kevin responded with his well known passion for sustainable forestry and life in the woods, night after night. He ended each talk with his offer to the ’16s to help them use the Grant for academic projects as well as recreation. Topics ranged from sustainable forestry, to the logs from the Grant that built the ’66 Lodge in Etna, to the social and economic fabric of the North Country.

Professor Emeritus Dick Birnie spoke eloquently about the geology of the Grant and surrounding area. Lance Tapley told the nature writing trips about his ca-reer as an environmental journalist. We were also joined by College Photographer Eli Burakian ’00. Eli

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made a photographic record of the project, and talked photog-raphy with us all. (See Eli’s marvelous Moosilauke picture book.)

If you didn’t participate, you missed a superb experience. It was a rather steep learning curve, and we are ready (for a hefty contribution to the Grant fund at OPO) to assist ’67 and following classes with planning and execution.

For an amusing, and rather positive student evaluation, see Lauren Vespoli ‘13’s column published in the Daily D on September 21, 2012:

Terry Lowd, Jeff Gilbert, Doug Hill and Jim Nutt take a few minutes off from peeling spuds to enjoy the air and sunshine of Northern New Hampshire in early September.

THE DARTMOUTH BUCKETLISTby Lauran Vespoli

! I didn't think I would ever make it to the Second College Grant as an undergrad until I was assigned to lead canoeing for DOC Trips at the end of the summer: Initially excited to see Dartmouth's casual extra 27,000 acres of forest, I grew nervous when Grant Croo informed my group that it was moose mating season. I prayed to Daniel Webster that the horny moose would have mercy on us.

! After paddling down the Magalloway River, crossing the Maine-New Hampshire line and surprising some wild turkeys at our campsite, a grassy airstrip, we were welcomed not by lusty moose but by Dartmouth alumni from the Class of 1966. They drove down the airstrip in their Volvos, picked up our bewildered trippees and brought us to their cabin for dinner.

! They indulged us with grilled chicken, salad and their memories of Dartmouth -- a very different place from the college we know now. My co-leader and I laughed afterward about the fact that students like us, a woman and a man of minority descent, would not have been leading a DOC Trip, much less attending the College in those days. Over dinner, the '66s told us about the buses that brought women up for big weekends and the Winter Carnival "Queen of the Snows" pageant where the visiting contestants were judged and crowned by profes-sors and the dean of the College. They were surprised to learn that freshmen no longer have to wear beanies - the little green caps that demarcated first-years for a period of hazing known as Freshman Week - and match up against the seniors in a tug-of-war until they won the right to take them off. I pity the poor administrator who has to explain the new hazing policies to these guys.

We talked about trees, a lot. The '66s bombarded the College forester (yeah, we have our own forester) Kevin Evans with very specific questions about hard and soft woods and forest management. Things start to get fuzzy here because I was so full and sleepy, but I did notice how interested they were and how much they loved this place that some of them were just visiting for the first time. They proudly mentioned to us that all the dressers, chairs and desks in dorm rooms on campus are made from wood from the Grant.We talked about history. The New Hampshire State Legislature gave Dartmouth the Grant in 1807 after the College sold off the First College Grant land. Initially, the College sold the timber harvested from the Second Grant and used the profits to fund student scholarships. Today, the Grant is still used for sustainable timber harvesting, as a wild-life preserve and as a recreational area for Dartmouth students, alumni, employees and faculty.

After dinner one of the '66s read us a poem, "Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo. As he reached the last few lines, he choked up. That's the true beauty of the Grant. It's huge, peaceful and sacred - it's Dart-mouth. You should go, but it's OK if you don't make it as an undergrad. It's a legacy you can experience at any point in your life, maybe even 50 years from now, when the freshmen will be laughing at the ludicrousness of a Greek system at Dartmouth.

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Greetings to Fellow ‘66s,

A wonderful benefit of living in the Upper Valley is frequent visits to the Dartmouth campus. Each time I encounter today’s energetic, intelligent stu-dents, I am inspired and invigorated.

One such student is Vivian Hu ’16, our first Class of 1966 Scholar. Vivian, whose home is Ger-mantown TN, joined us at our Class Homecoming dinner at the Norwich Inn. She is a delightful per-son, and I hope many of you will get to meet her over the next four years.

The two Dickey Scholars sponsored by our Class this year also joined us at the Homecoming dinner. Frances Wang ‘12/Th’13 spent two months on the remote steppes of Mongolia researching the breeding and development of falcons. Gurkaran Singh ’15 traveled to South Africa with the Think Impact’s Innovation Institute where he worked with villagers on asset-based community development and social entrepreneurship. It is through your gen-erosity that we support the two students annually with this Class Project. Check out Frances and G u r k a r a n a t o u r c l a s s w e b s i t e : www.dartmouth66.org/interns/index.html

Finally, I ask you to join your Executive Commit-tee in welcoming our newest “adopted” Class mem-ber: Kevin Evans. For the past 18 years Kevin has served as the College’s Forester, managing the Second College Grant, the Moosilauke reservation, and other forest tracts. He was a key player in the construction of our Class of ’66 Lodge and support-ing our recent Class Connections Grant program.

My best to everyone,

Al Keiller, PresidentClass of 1966

Class of 1966 Handbook Now Available Online

Ben Day, our Class of ’66 Webmaster, is pleased to announce the availability of the online versions of the Class of 1966 Handbook which we received as freshmen in the fall of 1962. Thanks to the efforts of Chuck Sherman, who was able to get scans of an original handbook, Ben has converted them into "typeset" versions in both PDF and iBook formats. Both of these files are now available on the newly-created Class Library on our website.! To download either or both of these files, go to the class website at dartmouth66.org and select "Class Library" in the navigation panel. That will take you to a login page. Similar to the scheme we've used for the Class of 1966 Google Earth files, there is a single login/pwd combination: The user-name is "ClassOf1966" (one word, case sensitive). The password is the last name of the man who was College president when we matriculated. These files are behind a login because we wish to provide a modest control of their distribution to those with a direct interest in the content.! A successful login takes you to a page show-ing the files (including the Google Earth file). Simply click on the title to download the file of your choice.Editors Note: Log on and take a look at the Hand-book for 10 or 20 minutes. You will be amazed and delighted at the connection with Hanover in 1962 it creates.

President’s Letter

A Dartmouth College Virgin Islands Flotilla

Organized by Gerry Hill ’68 and Norm Silverman ’68

A few members of Dartmouth Class of 1968 are organizing a Dartmouth College Flotilla in the British Virgin Islands. 9 nights – on board in the Caribbean: departing May 12, return-ing to port May 21. Other Dartmouth classes and friends are welcome. Hoping to get at least five boats filled. You don't need to be an expert sailor -- just enjoy adventure. Easy sailing in the best charter sail territory in the world. This is not a commercial operation, j u s t a g r ea t p a r t y f o r Da r tmou th friends. Email for details -- Gerry Hills, stjohncaptain@aol.com, Norm Silverman, norman.silverman@yahoo.com.Hu Wang Singh

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Big Turnout for Homecoming Mini-Reunionby Bob Serenbetz

Twenty-three classmates and twenty-five guests attended the Class of 1966 Homecoming Mini October 26-27. Activities began at 5 PM with a pizza/beer & wine reception at the DOC House on Occom Pond. The weather was perfect, allowing for a beautiful evening sitting on the porch overlooking the pond. Kathy and Wayne LoCurto and Marie and Chris Meyer were among the first to arrive, followed by Jennifer Casey, Rick and Margy Kornblum, Kathy and Mark Blanchard, Ed Larner, Steve Lanfer and his Irish Setter, Anne and Ted Thompson, Gary Jefferson with son Sam and Chuck Sherman and Margie Carpenter. Just before 7 PM, the as-sembled gang left for Memorial Field and the start of the Parade of the Classes up Main Street. Sadly, every year we are further to the front!

The speeches in front of Dart-mouth Hall were thankfully shorter than usual, led by our friend Martha Beattie ’76, VP of Alumni Relations. The Bonfire, with each tie nailed in place and built by a combination of cherry-pickers and fork-lift trucks, re-fused to fall down and was somehow disassembled in the early morning hours.

Our connection class, the ‘16’s, had a huge turnout, but the run around the bonfire was marred by large white roadside barriers to keep them twenty feet or so from the fire. Thank you, litigious society!! Elizabeth and Jim Lustenader, Rick MacMillan, and Karen and Bob Serenbetz com-miserated with stories of “back in the day” by tippling a few at the new Six South Street Hotel, while chatting with the mother of one of Dartmouth’s starting defensive backs (“Who was Bob Blackman?” she asked).

Linda and Bob Spence

Judy and Terry Lowd

Bob Serenbetz and Robin Carpenter

Anne Thompson, Chris Meyer, Ted Thompson, Al Keiller, Marie Meyer

Colby, MacMillan, Sherman, Lanfer

Margy and Rick Kornblum

David Johnston

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Saturday noon a large group assembled for the Class meeting and luncheon at Margo and Paul Doscher’s home in Norwich. Judy and Terry Lowd, Linda and Bob Spence, and David Johnston listened as Al Keiller led the class meeting with a recounting of Executive Committee decisions: College Forester Kevin Evans chosen as the fourth adopted member of our class; a DCF goal for 2012-2013 of $210K; a financial update; and the selection of Vivian Hu ’16 as the first Class of 1966 Scholarship recipient (he and Jo had met Vivian at the Scholarship Luncheon the day before).

Bob reviewed the DCF campaign pro-gress while Chuck reviewed all the “connec-tions” activities since the successful “Feed the ‘16’s” at the Second College Grant (see accompanying article).

Bob Serenbetz then reviewed upcoming mini-reunions and the results of the first or-ganization meeting for the 50th Reunion. The meeting closed with a discussion of initiating another class project/gift. Among the ideas discussed, to be reviewed later by the Execu-tive Committee, were the Dartmouth Athletic Sponsors Program, and a Dickey Center Speakers Program.

The football game vs. Harvard, the first Homecoming game to be viewed at night since the installation of lights during the summer of 2011, looked grim after the first Half, with Harvard leading 21-0, but Dart-mouth roared back, with two touchdowns and an “almost” third before a fumble on Har-vard’s one yard line, and ended up losing 34-14. A mad dash to the Norwich Inn for a re-ception and dinner included Laura ’95, Sharon, and Gary Broughton, Theresa and Robin Carpenter, Nancy and Allan Ryan, Barbara and Paul Semple, and Susan and Gus Southworth. We were joined by Dickey recipients Gurkaran Singh ’15, Fran Wang ’12, Th ’13, Fran’s Thayer School roommate Allison Stace-Naughton ’11, and Class of ’66 Scholar Vivian Hu. Gurkaran and Fran each summarized their experiences in South Africa and Mongolia respectively (their bios and re-ports are on the Class of 1966 website at www.dartmouth66.org).

The dinner concluded with a cake cele-brating Margie Carpenter’s 39th birthday!

’66 Dickey Scholar Gurkaran Singh ’15 (r) and Allison Stace-Naughton ’11

Chuck & ’66 Dickey Scholar Fran Wang ’12

Paul and Barbara SempleGary and Sharon Broughton

Class of ’66 Scholar Vivian Hu ’16 Susan and Gus Southworth

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News of Classmates

Rick Reiss writes: I had a meeting in Boston a couple of weeks ago and made a dinner date with Alan Rotten-berg and Don Glazer. I also managed to finagle an invite to the Yankee–Red Sox game and the 100th anniversary celebration of Fenway Park.

As for the three of us, we are still active in various, for-profit endeavors: Alan practices real estate law at Goulston and Stors. Donny is affiliated with Goodwin, Proctor and holds an important position on the Opinions Committee of the Bar Association and is still updating his legal treatises. I still manage a fund, have investments in the hospitality and restaurant business, and serve on a number of Boards (both for profit and charitable). We each have children who have children which makes us grandparents and two of us (Alan and myself) are still married to the same trophy wives—our first. The important point is that we are active, healthy and engaged with business, family and friends and still manage to get some exercise almost every day. Since I missed our last reunion, it was great to catch-up with some classmates.

I will add one additional Dartmouth thought. I attended the recent PLC dinner in NY with President Kim and had a chance to speak with him directly. One man’s opinion (mine) is that his leaving Dartmouth is a major loss for the College. That said, he is a great choice for the World Bank where he has an opportunity to do a lot of good for a huge number of people. I know there are a lot of very mixed emotions about his leaving after only three years, but sometimes we do not have the opportunity to plan what we would like to do next—or even get that op-portunity. I come down on the side of those who are just grateful that he made such a significant impact on Dart-mouth – one that will last for a very long time. I believe his decision to leave was incredibly difficult personally, but that he deserves our support and gratitude, not only for what he has done, but what he will accomplish in the fu-ture. Dartmouth has survived a lot more traumatic issues over its history and is in a much stronger position to survive this one than at any time in the recent past. We need to remember that three years ago President Kim was a “high risk, out-of-the-box” choice to lead the College and he turned out to be a great President. Let’s just hope that the next pick works out as well.

Peter Cleaves used the Class of 1966 Earth Map to locate Greg Eden and Bob Baird all in Austin, Texas. On September 23, they had lunch. The three 66ers saw each other for the first time in decades, remembered classmates and professors, told stories from college and afterwards, and caught up on their current activities. Bob Baird entertained with his description of the Kappa Sig SOMF sign displayed at football games (Society of Mutual Friends). Greg Eden recalled his meetings with Dean Seymour and President Dickey while head of the Interfraternity Council. Peter Cleaves told how his class with Kalman Silvert launched a 40-year career in Latin America. He is now engaged in a tribute to Professor Silvert joined by former US Ambassadors Jim Cason and Joff Keane. Other professors fondly remembered as great teachers were Harold Bond, Peter Bien, Larry Smith and Charles Wood.

After college, Greg Eden was a carrier-based naval aviator in Vietnam, where he crossed paths with Jeff Rogers, Rob Cleary, Pete Richardson, and Kevin Trainor. Greg’s law career focused on tax-free municipal bonds. He continues doing innovative deals while in his spare time flying his beloved Mooney single engine plane.

Lawyer Bob Baird worked over three decade with Vinson and Elkins, opened the corporate section of the Aus-tin office, and retired six years ago. He and his wife Ann (married 36 years) have purchased a ranch in nearby Burnet, Texas, where he assures his free time will be free no longer.

Peter Cleaves came to Austin to lead the University of Texas Latin American Institute, after 18 years between the Ford Foundation and First Chicago, and then managed the AVINA Foundation (Swiss endowed) and headed the Emirates Foundation (Abu Dhabi). He now consults for multilateral organizations, promotes Gulf investments into Latin America, and plays tennis with Steve Lanfer whenever he passes through Austin. This urban luncheon was declared a success.

Alan Rottenburg, Rick Reiss and Don Glazer at October Micro in Boston

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The ACLU Maine Foundation awarded Lance Ta-pley with the 2012 Roger Baldwin Award for his ex-traordinary civil liberties advocacy. Lance received the award on October 25th at the Maine ACLU Founda-tion’s Annual Meeting & Celebration. The evening also featured an update on the state of civil liberties in Maine and a discussion of upcoming issues for the next legislative session.

Lance and Peggy Tapley (pictured right) also as-sisted the ’66 Class Connections Project of feeding Dartmouth 2016 freshmen at the College Grant last August.

Chuck Sherman reports that on October 12, 2012, Rob McAuley married Sandy Clancy (now Sandy Griswold-McAuley) in Yosemite National Park at the Ahwahnee Hotel. The wedding was outside on the lawn, the reception indoors. Chuck was honored to be Best Man. Colonel Rob wore his Army dress uniform (he was a military physician for his first career). Chuck wore a Dartmouth Studenten Verbindung Germania member stripe ("Burschenstreifen"). Rob and Chuck were both members of the now defunct German Club. The wedding was a glorious affair in a glorious setting.

The Fall issue of Dartmouth Medicine reports that Dr. Eugene Nattie '66, prof of physiology and neurobiol-ogy at Geisel School of Medicine was one of 16 faulty named to the inaugural class of the newly cre-ated Academy of Faculty Master Educators. The in-ductees are recognized by their colleagues for their accomplishment in teaching and mentoring students and residents.

Alumni Council nominates Mitchell Kurz for Board of Trusteesby John Rollins, Class of ’66 Alumni Council Representative

After screening an extensive list of candidates and then vetting a “short list” of 300, the Alumni Council’s Nominating Committee recommended the nomination of Mitchell Kurz ’73 to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. Kurz is a leading education advocate who serves as treasurer of the Harlem Children’s Zone and academic dean of the Bronx Center for Science and Math. A retired president of Young & Rubicam, he also led Wunderman Worldwide, which he built into the world’s largest database marketing firm. Mitch graduated Phi Beta Kappa with majors in economics and psychology, lettered in lacrosse, and was in Alpha Theta. He received his MBA with honors from Harvard and holds a master’s degree in mathematics education. He serves on the Tucker Founda-tion Board of Visitors. Eighteen of his students benefit from Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD); five cur-rently attend Dartmouth. He has worked in the South Bronx since 2001. Mitch and his wife, Sandy, have two sons and reside in New York.

Lance and Peggy Tapley

Chuck, Sandy Griswold-McAuley, Rob McAuley

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Kevin Evans, College Forester, Adopted by the Class of ’66By action of the Class of ’66 Executive

Committee on October 8, 2012, Kevin Evans was unanimously approved as an adopted member of the Dartmouth Class of 1966. Doug Hill’s nomination letter to Al Keiller and the Executive Committee states the case for Kevin’s nomination quite ade-quately:

Dear Al:I am writing on behalf of the '66-'16 Con-

nections program Grant Croo to nominate Kevin Evans, Dartmouth College Forester, to become an adopted member of the Class of 1966. I am joined in this nomination by Chuck Sherman, Prof. Dick Birnie, and the rest of our Croo.

Kevin is a graduate of the UNH Forestry School, and has been a professional forester for many years.  For the past 18, he has served as the College's forester, managing the Second College Grant, the Moosilauke reservation, and other smaller college forest tracts.  

Kevin views his job as much broader than simply managing the improvement and cutting process at Dartmouth's working forests.  He sees the Grant as an educational resource, full of opportunities for re-search and learning from economics to forest ecology to wildlife management to rural sociology. 

Kevin was a key player in the construction of our excellent Class of '66 Lodge.  Among other contribu-tions he personally selected the timber and cut it to length.  

When I asked Kevin to come and make brief presentations to our '66-'16 Connections program First-year Trip groups, he enthusiastically agreed.  He took his own time to join us at the Management Center night after night, providing articulate and enthusiastic summaries of the history of the Grant, and the rec-reational and educational opportunities available to students there.  Kevin's presentations and his informal conversations with the '16s, their trip leaders and our '66 Croo were integral and essential to the project's success.

I am proud to nominate Kevin as a member of our class.  He would be pleased if the nomination is confirmed.Doug Hill

Letter to Al Keiller from Martha Beattie, VP of Alumni Relations Dear Al:

! What wonderful recognition you have given to our Dartmouth College Forester!   I am sure that he will be thrilled to become an adopted member of the great Class of 1966.  Thank you for helping to grow the Dartmouth family and for being staunch supporters of the importance of the remarkable sense of place that is Dartmouth!  From the DOC, to the Grant, to the 1966 effort with the cabin, and even to the room at the Canoe Club(!), you and your classmates are exem-plary in keeping our outdoor traditions front and center.    

 ! Your nomination citation has been sent to our alumni records office and Kevin Evans will from

here on out be included in your class ranks.   Welcome to Kevin Evans ‘66a. 

Warm regards from Hanover,Martha J Beattie '76, Vice President for Alumni Relations

Chuck Sherman with Kevin Evans at the Second College Grant

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Upcoming Mini-Reunion EventsNew York City Luncheon December 12: The Class will hold its first urban luncheon mini-reunion on Wednesday, De-cember 12 at 12 noon in New York City at the Dartmouth Club (Yale Club Building) at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue. The cost will be $25 and we hope to include a speaker from the class. All those planning to attend should email Bob Serenbetz at bobserenbetz@prodigy.net. Meeting room will be emailed to all participants once we have a count of interested class-mates.

Golf Mini-Reunion in Tucson February 8-10, 2013: The second golf mini will be held at the Ventana Canyon Lodge in Tucson, with an arrival on February 8, followed by two days of golf the 9th and 10th. Dinners will be planned on the 8th and 9th. All interested golfers can make their own arrangements by contacting the Ventana Canyon Lodge at 520-299-2020. Ask for the Dartmouth College Class of 1966 rate of $1049 (three nights one bedroom king suite lodging, all resort fees and taxes, and two rounds of golf). If you wish, you can book your room individually (two bedroom suites are available for classmates wishing to room together) for fewer days lodging or fewer/more rounds of golf. We have also negotiated lower rates at the Ramada Inn and Suites Foothills, $115 per night for a standard room, about a fifteen minute drive from Ventana Canyon. Golf rounds will cost $129 per round for those staying outside the Lodge.

Gem Week will be taking place in Tucson while we are there…bring your significant other at your own risk! If you have any questions, feel free to contact Tucson-resident Rich Daly at rich@daly.us. All classmates interested in signing up should contact Bob Serenbetz at bobserenbetz@prodigy.net.

Fifth Annual 66th Night Regional Gatherings: Jim Lustenader will be coordinating all 66th Night activities taking place on or around March 7, 2013. Any gathering of more than one classmate counts! You can review your proximity to other classmates by downloading Google Earth and the Class of 1966 map (see instructions on our Class website). Last year about 50 classmates participated; let’s see if we can get to 100!

Ski Mini Reunion: Tim Urban will again be organizing a ski mini in the March-April time frame. Details will be available in the new year.

European River Cruise Mini-Reunion: There is still time to sign-up and secure the negotiated discounts for the European River Cruise Mini from August 23 – September 3, 2013. Rates ranging from $3631 to $4431 per person are available until December 19, 2012; further discounts of up to $300 per person may be available. The trip starts in Prague and follows the Main-Danube Canal, the Main, Rhine and Moselle Rivers from Nur-emberg to Trier, ending up in Paris for two days.

Twelve couples have signed up: Sharon and Gary Broughton, Isabel and Halsey Bullen, Christina and Erv Burkholder, Mary and Rich Daly, Penny and Jeff Gilbert, Barbara and Steve Lanfer, Anne and John Rol-lins, Karen and Bob Serenbetz, Margie Carpenter and Chuck Sherman, Mary and Brad Stein, Toni and Tim Urban, and Anne and Ken Zuhr. Join us for the first ever out-of-the-country reunion by calling travel agent Margaret Conlon at 610-640-4124.

Coming EventsNew York City Luncheon New York City December 12, 2012Golf Mini-Reunion Tucson, AZ February 8-10, 2013Fifth Annual 66th Night Various March 7, 2013Ski Mini-Reunion TBD March-April timeframeEuropean River Cruise Prague to Paris Aug 23 to Sept 3, 2013Homecoming Hanover October 11-12, 201350th Reunion Hanover June 9 – 14, 2016

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