Early in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Arthur Fergenson (our mini-Reunion Chair) initiated a series of Casual Conversations among classmates. These 2-hour conversations occur roughly monthly using Zoom and are on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 pm ET unless otherwise specified. About 3 weeks before each event, an announcement is posted here on the web site and sent to all classmates for whom we have valid email addresses. If you wish to suggest a topic, suggest a classmate, or lead a discussion yourself - you should contact Arthur Fergenson.
Something new for our Casual Conversations: two conversations linked by subject matter. Both concern mining and mines. The first, which is with Tim Means, is about mining: how it is done, how it is regulated, and the human and legal institutional flaws that can jeopardize achievement of miners’ safety which is the intended regulatory objective. (The second on January 9 will feature David Abbott talking about his work for the
On Monday December 6 at 5 pm Eastern Standard Time, the Jewish Culture Group is sponsoring a discussion with Charles Murray about his writings on the Jewish people. We have Tex Talmadge, a friend of Charles Murray to thank for obtaining his agreement to speak with us.
In 2009, our classmate, Dona Heller, was adopted by the Class of ’69, along with nine other Pioneering Women. Dona grew up in Hanover as the daughter of a D’35 who was a Hitchcock Clinic physician and taught at Dartmouth Medical School. Before Dartmouth officially went coed, Dona began taking courses at the College in the fall of 1964, when she was a senior in high school.
On Monday, November 1 at 4:00 pm Eastern (US) time, Hunter College Professor of Jewish and Hebrew Studies Leah Garrett will be our guest for a Casual Conversation sponsored by the Jewish Culture Group. As always everyone is invited, and we suspect that many of you will want to hear about the incredible and inspiring stories she wrote about in her new book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II. The stories of
On October 18 at 5 pm Eastern time, a new year kicks off for the Jewish Culture Group with a distinguished guest, Harry K. Danziger, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Israel of Memphis TN. The topic is the ever-relevant issue of assimilation versus identity, for Jews as well as all other immigrants to America. Here is a short biographical note on the Rabbi:
On October 13 of this year Rose Mantelmacher will turn 100 years old. That she has lived that long is notable, but even more significant is what happened 76 years ago when Rose was liberated from Bergen Belson by British troops. Sick with Typhus, she was unable to eat although suffering from malnutrition and desperately hungry. That probably saved her life because the troops did not know the proper medical protocols to feed
Join us for a Casual Conversation on Sunday October 3 at 3 pm Eastern with Paul Tuhus and Andy McLane: The Restoration, Renovation, and Re-Birth of the DOC House, From Conception to Reality
It’s fall and time to go back to school. Welcome to the new season of Casual Conversations with Dartmouth faculty and classmates. And our next guest has been chosen for us by, of all people, Professor James Heffernan, Professor Emeritus of English, a fabulous guest who regaled us with 90-minutes of enthusiastic memories, insights on how he came to teach James Joyce, and a recitation of one of his own poems. He also gave a s
Our next Casual Conversation on Zoom is July 17th with Dimitri Gerakaris ’69: the Path Not Taken
Our next Saturday at the Movies, employing the Amazon Prime Watch Party function, will be on July 10 at 8 pm Eastern (US). The usual cautions apply: you will need a US Amazon Prime account, a lap top or desk top computer to watch the movie, a web browser other than Safari (with Chrome working best), and you will have to rent (at $3.99) or purchase the movie from Amazon before you can join the party. Watch Party has a chat feature so that we can talk among ourselves while the movie is in progress, and we join together after the movie is over to discuss it via Zoom.