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’68 Update

Alumni Office — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:23:50 +0000

Finally a Grandpa!! Isabelle Grafton de Sieyes arrived uneventfully on June 7th to son Nick and his lovely wife Kim, in Santa Cruz, California. Looks like we’ll be splitting our time between Maine and and the Left Coast from now on…

Chuck de Sieyes

Class of 1968

’64 News

Alumni Office — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:22:57 +0000

Rick Herrick ’64 writes that his new novel, Choosing Love, will be published by Sunstone Press this fall. His musical play, “Lighthouse Point,” was performed as a fundraiser by the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on May 13, 2013.

Macbeth

Alumni Office — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:11:46 +0000

John Bachelder ’75 will be starring in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in Stratford CT this July at Boothe Memorial Park.

Deerfield at Dartmouth

Alumni Office — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:35:13 +0000

Robert Lasher ’84, incoming (July 1) Senior Vice President for Advancement, Dartmouth and Alan Cattier ’82, incoming (August 1) Assistant CIO, Dartmouth will join Andy Steele ’65, Dir of Alumni Services at Tuck School of Business and David Hagerman ’64, Development Office at Dartmouth in Hanover this summer.

John Knight

Class of 1983

’47 Update

Alumni Office — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:32:56 +0000

Three years ago on the 1st of July, Peggy Read and I moved into The Woodlands, shortly after the “Independent Living” facility opened. We have enjoyed our residency here, even though by some standards we are too mobile and energetic for this sort of residence.

Peggy and I made that decision because we reasoned that while we are, for our ages, in good physical and mental shape, we wanted to make the move before we became too decrepit to make a big , downsizing, move without huge stress. I have no children, and Peggy’s live in the far West, so access to help from the younger generation is significantly limited. We just felt that accomplishing the big move and getting used to the new environment would be a whole lot easier if we acted sooner rather than later.

Neither of us thought much about the sociological aspects of the communal living that characterizes a place like The Woodlands. There are wine and cheese parties, cribbage and bridge. We eat together in a beautiful dining room where the food is excellent and it’s wonderful to visit with different eating companions with whom we trade stories and make jokes. Funny how we seem to find humor in our various frailties. We have both gotten involved in volunteer activity : library, health care committee, newsletter, trails and weeding. We saved a lot of time when we gave up condo living: less maintenance, less cooking, fewer day to day chores, so I guess it’s natural that we would find other stuff to do in addition to our crossword puzzles and Scrabble.

I need to add that the Upper Valley, especially Hanover, Lebanon and White River Junction is an astounding cultural milieu with art, drama, dance, lectures and music. Oh, and add to this the matter of following and watching Dartmouth athletics and you really have a rounding out of a nearly perfect retirement environment. The quality and availability of these make our life far richer than we imagined back when we were busy with our careers.

I guess I can sum up by observing that life is still sweet in spite of the inevitable slow-downs that go with our generation.

Charlie Russell

Class of 1947

Retirement Plans

Alumni Office — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:25:27 +0000

Retiring as a Psychotherapist officially June 30th. Traveling to Mongolia with Habitat for Humanity in September to build houses, maybe Yurts! Then a meetup with Tom Falcon and David Boynton of ’61 at Matinicus Island, Maine in October!

Dick Stuart

Class of 1961

’48 Update

Alumni Office — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:25:04 +0000

Unfortunately, my wife, Mary Lee, died on September 1, 2011. I have recently renewed
a 1945 relationship with Judy Erdmann Makrianes, who grew up in New Canaan and
now lives in East Hampton, NY. She and I have enjoyed each other’s company greatly
over the last year. and we plan to be together from now on. Judy grew up with and
remembers well other Deerfield men like Ron Repp, Charlie Heard, Chris Carver,
Bill Fisher and others in the Class of 1948. Unfortunately, some of our mutual Deerfield
friends are no longer with us. We cherish their memory.

Alec Robertson

Class of 1948

Mayor Doings

Alumni Office — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:56:40 +0000

We are eating plant-based, nutrition rich here in Hanover, following the guidelines of “Forks over Knives” and Caldwell and Rip Esselstyn’s books (Erik’s ['55] father ['52] and nephew, respectively), with titles “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease,: “The Engine 2 Diet” and “My Beef with Meat.”

Half of our grandchildren (five in number) are going to school together here in Hanover as their mothers (our daughters) pursue their careers here in town.

Lili is preparing a major exhibition of her prints at the AVA Gallery she helped to establish 40 years ago, to open this September.

I am busy with research in the Thayer Engineering School Biomedical Engineering Center for Orthopaedics in continuing efforts to improve the longevity of replaced joints like the hip and knee. We are husbanding one of the world’s largest collections of retrieved joint parts, now numbering over 12,000, with me having scrutinized each of them in turn, with photographs and numerical damage ratings of what they suffered at the hands of their human hosts. Do I miss the Orthopaedic Operating Room? Oh, a little, maybe, but I don’t miss the burden of clinical tyranny that came with it.

No major physical decline, yet, still we are contemplating establishing at least partial residence in our local senior residential and continuing care community, Kendal at Hanover, as much as anything as a gift to our children.

Michael ’55 and Elizabeth (Lili) Mayor
Hanover, New Hampshire

New Baby

Alumni Office — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:36:51 +0000

John Fichthorn and Tatum Fichthorn had their third child, Storey Lane Fichthorn on March 21st 2013 to join their other two children Jack and Daisy ages 6 and 8. They are currently harvesting trees in Vermont in their spare time while developing a farm and outdoor fun club.

John Fichthorn

Class of 1991

’54 News

Alumni Office — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:26:33 +0000

Nancy and I have just come back from my 55th Yale reunion; I am suffering from a surfeit of nostalgia. The one thing that may interest my ’54 classmates (other than the trivia of growing older) is that Nancy and I have been collecting contemporary photography for the last 30 years. We have promised the collection to Yale and have already sent them about 125 pieces with twice that to follow. For my Yale ’58 reunion (the 55th) The Yale Gallery put two pieces up on the regular exhibition rooms and about fifteen others in the Prints and Drawings Room. Many of my fellow classmates of Yale ’58 came to see them, as did some of my Deerfield ’54 classmates who were also fellow Yalies.

Rob Grover

Class of 1954