News and Updates

On Monday, Jun 5 at 5 pm Eastern we will be joined by John Avlon of CNN (and much more) for a Casual Conversation prompted by his bookLincoln and the Fight for Peace (Simon & Schuster 2022).   Here is the first paragraph of the bio he has posted on his website,

We were saddened to hear that Curtis Nichols passed away on May 5th, 2023. As yet, there is no published obituary available. If you were close to Curtis during or after our college years and wish to share some memorial thoughts, please let the webmaster know.

On Tuesday, May 16 at 5 pm Eastern Time, Thayer Professor Emeritus Alexander Hartov will join us for a Casual Conversation sponsored by the Jewish Culture Group.  Professor Hartov is the co-founder the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive.
 
Bruce Alpert, chair of the Jewish Culture Group found out about the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive when he received the Dartmouth News email on April 7: 

https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/04/dartmouth-jewish-sound-archive-mark-150000-tracks 

Please join us for a Casual Conversation on Sunday, May 14 at 3 pm with the distinguished psychiatrist, addiction specialist, and scholar Sally Satel, M.D.   
 

In the past, the Class of ’69 Honorees Committee (currently consisting of Greg Lau, Rick Willets, Peter Elias  and Jim Staros ex officio) invited and received a number of recommendations from various members of our Class for the Committee to consider recognizing with the Class of 1969 Outstanding Service Award. Our inaugural awards recognized Rick Willets and David Prentice (posthumously) at our 75th birthday celebration last June and Norman Jacobs and Peter Elias were honored at our October Homecoming last year.

Dartmouth College Class of 1969

ComingHome Weekend - October 6-8, 2023

Always looking to innovate, and reflecting a desire to enter into subjects in depth, the Casual Conversation team, i.e, me, is offering you two occasions to explore the works of Austrian author Stefan Zweig, a Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Austria.  The first is on Sunday, May 7, at 1 pm Eastern Time for a

Thanks to Keneth Paul '69 for alerting us to this NYTimes article about Brian Maracle.

An excerpt:

"Now, 30 years later, Mr. Maracle has become a champion of Mohawk, and is helping revive it and other Indigenous languages, both in Canada and elsewhere, through his transformation of teaching methods.

On Tuesday, May 2 at 4:30 pm Eastern Time, Professor Jim O’Connell, Dartmouth ’71, will be our guest for a Casual Conversation.  Jim is an active member of our Traveling Troupe which reads plays on Zoom on roughly a monthly basis.  Jim was a Drama and Government major at the College, and he remains a superb actor.