The June 16th, 2025 issue of The Valley News has a column that pays tribute to Professor Kemeny who was President of Dartmouth from 1970 to 1981 and to our classmate, Dimitri.
Here are the opening paragraphs of a column that is definitely worth your time:
The Class of ’69 Award Committee, currently consisting of Dudley Kay,(Chair) Peter Elias, Allen Denison and Jim Staros (ex officio) are inviting your nominations for The Class of 1969 Outstanding Service Award. The Committee will be considering nominations it already has received as well as any new nominations that members of the Class would like to present. Your nominations should consist of no less than 50 words and no more than 200 words for the reasons supporting your nomination.
William Deresiewicz is an independent scholar who will be with us on Sunday, June 29 at 3 pm Eastern Time for a Casual Conversation focusing on the essays in his collection The End of So
An obituary will be added when it becomes available.
Jonathan Eig won the Pulitzer Prize for King: A Life (Picador 2023), and he will be with us for a Casual Conversation on Monday, May 26 at 5 pm Eastern Time.
Here is a letter from Dartmouth College about our Class of 1969 Scholar Matthew Monroe '27. A pdf file about him is linked below.
On Sunday, May 11 at 10 am Eastern Time, Bernard Avishai will be speaking with us for a Casual Conversation. (The earlier time is necessitated by our guest speaking with us from Jerusalem.
On Sunday, April 27 at 2 pm Eastern Time, Professor Adam D. Mendelsohn will join us for a Casual Conversation. Professor Mendelsohn is the author of Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War; The Union Army (New York University Press 2022).
Professor Mendelsohn is associated with several institutions. At the University of Cape Town,
HOWE, Allan T. February 3, 1948 - December 25, 2024
One foot, other foot,
One foot, other foot,
Now you can do
Whatever you want,
Whatever you want to do.
Here you are in a wonderful world,