On Sunday, January 30, 2022, at 3 pm Eastern Standard Time, Paul Gambaccini will join us on Zoom for a casual conversation. He will be speaking from London, England, where he has lived and worked for decades. As with all our casual conversations with Dartmouth colleagues, this will not be an exercise in nostalgia about our College years. Rather, Paul has spent a lifetime forging a unique path in the entert
Bruce passed away on December 31, 2021 and the only obituary available at this time is from Echovita: "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Bruce Henry (Nyack, New York), who passed away on December 31, 2021, at the age of 74, leaving to mourn family and friends."
The second half of our mining double bill takes place on Sunday, January 9, 2022, at 3 pm Eastern Standard Time on Zoom. David Abbott will be sharing his experiences as a geologist in ferreting out fraud in the sale of mining securities. His description of his talk is below.
Robert Wayne Garrett of Scituate died peacefully after a brief illness on a beautiful Fall morning, November 18th. Robert was born and raised in Frederick, Maryland and spent much of his youth on his grandparents’ dairy farm. He graduated valedictorian of Frederick High School in 1965, Phi Beta Kappa and Rufus Choate Scholar from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH with a degree in advanced mathematics and economics in 1969 and Harvard Law School in 1972.
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.
Peter Elias sends us his notes from Homecoming 2021:
Message from Class President Jim Staros:
As you have heard, President Hanlon and the Board of Trustees have decided on an in-person fall 2021 term at Dartmouth, and we are delighted that it includes an in-person Homecoming. Homecoming Co-Chairs Norman Jacobs and Dona Heller have developed a great schedule of events for the weekend, and I look forward to seeing you there.
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 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