Leonidas Demas '69 has written and produced a movie, A Spartan Dream.
An interview with Leonidas is here and opens like this:
Dartmouth College
Class of 1969
Los Angeles (Pasadena) Mini-Reunion
Dartmouth College Class of 1969
ComingHome Weekend - October 10-11, 2025
In coordination with Dartmouth’s Homecoming
Please join us. Register Now.
On Sunday, September 28 at 3 pm ET on Zoom we will have the opportunity to have a conversation about Moby Dick with Wyn Kelley, Senior Lecturer Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She comes to us through the good offices of classmate Bruce Alpert. Lecturer Kelley’s MIT faculty listing, with drop down lists of courses taught, and publications as well as a link to her cv, may be found here: https://lit.mit.edu/wkelley/ .
On August 18, 2025, at 3 pm Eastern Time, Princeton University Professor Rhodri Lewis will be our guest for a Casual Conversation on King Lear by William Shakespeare.
Thomas Dwight Sloan III, 77, of Huntsville passed away Thursday, July 10, 2025. Dwight was born in Manhattan, NY and moved to Huntsville with his family following high school.
He met Susan Pullen while attending Dartmouth College. He graduated in 1969, and they married the same year. Dwight was stationed in Viet Nam while serving in the US Army from 1969-1972. When he returned from active duty, he attended law school at the University of Alabama, where he finished third in his class.
This coming Monday, August 4 at 5 pm Eastern Time we will be joined for a Casual Conversation with Dartmouth Professor William C. Wohlforth who will discuss the new book he co-authored with independent scholar Professor Jill Kastner (whose PhD is from Harvard University): A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion (Oxford University Press 2025).
On Sunday, July 20 at 3 pm Eastern Time, Dr. Gregory Makoff will spend time with us for a Casual Conversation. Dr.
The June 16th, 2025 issue of The Valley News has a column that pays tribute to Professor Kemeny who was President of Dartmouth from 1970 to 1981 and to our classmate, Dimitri.
Here are the opening paragraphs of a column that is definitely worth your time:
The Class of ’69 Award Committee, currently consisting of Dudley Kay,(Chair) Peter Elias, Allen Denison and Jim Staros (ex officio) are inviting your nominations for The Class of 1969 Outstanding Service Award. The Committee will be considering nominations it already has received as well as any new nominations that members of the Class would like to present. Your nominations should consist of no less than 50 words and no more than 200 words for the reasons supporting your nomination.