Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 6:00pm.
The same sommelier who hosted our initial wine tasting is back – Dona’s cousin, Allie Nault. Allie is a level 3 sommelier currently at the Inn at Little Washington. The Inn is a Relais & Chateaux property set in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains southwest of Washington, DC. Allie had previously been at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans.
You will receive and we will be tasting 5 wines in 375ml bottles:
The Alumni Small Business Directory was launched in November 2020 ahead of Small Business Saturday. There are currently more than 250 alumni members registered, representing nearly 270 small businesses!
After a November break following John Mathias’s presentation on representing defendants accused of a capital crime, Casual Conversations on Zoom picked back up again on December 20 with Tex Talmadge, assisted by Dudley Kay (on his birthday), leading a discussion on the Civil War. More than 20 classmates attended, as was the case also for John Mathias. In each session, some new faces appeared, a valuable aspect of the program allowing an expansion of active Class members beyond the “usual suspects.”
effrey Bonnell Kopet was born in Spokane, WA at Deaconess Hospital on October 10, 1946 to parents Barbara Ann Kopet and Jerome Cole Kopet and passed away on December 13, 2020 due to complications from cancer and COVID-19 pneumonia.
Jeff attended St. George’s School and served in various Associated Student Body positions throughout his attendance, graduating in 1965. During high school, he also earned his Eagle Scout ranking within the Boy Scouts of America, and was inducted into the Order of the Arrow.
A published obituary is not available, but Deke's sister provided this toucing essay about Deke:
Finally, I am ready to sit down and write a bit more about Deke Olmsted. I do this as I listen to a CBS this morning report about the incidence of CTE in kids playing football as early as 12 years old.
Click on the PDF below to see the promotional article of our DOC renovation project.
Inaugurating what I hope will be a new series of ad hoc pop-up Zoom get-togethers, I am sponsoring a Zoom poetry participatory reading this Tuesday, November 24, 2020, at 5 pm Eastern (US). Each person on the call will be expected to read two poems (of any authorship) of his or her choosing. That’s it. No obligation to pick a poem of a certain length, although some verse works—like Paradise Lost or Howl—might be considered
Thanks to classmate Phil Bush for providing this link to a short video of drone footage showing Dartmouth and the immediate environs from the air, complete with some pretty damn nice Fall foliage.