A Casual Conversation on estate planning and administration will be held at 3 pm Eastern on Sunday, December 22. Our conversants will be classmate and attorney Doug Reynolds as well as Kevin Cox, a law firm colleague of classmate Bruce Alpert’s son Jeremy. Doug was recruited by classmate Clint Harris. This session was suggested
On Sunday, December 15 at 3 pm Eastern, Paula Kurman, widow of major league baseball pitcher and author Jim Bouton, will join us for a Casual Conversation. She comes to us courtesy of classmate Chip Elitzer, who writes: “Paula’s book about their [hers and Jim Bouton’s] life together, ‘The Cool of the Evening,’ has just been published. In a way, it’s the completion of a trilogy, following Jim’s classic, ‘Ball Four,’ and his recounting of our adventure together in Pittsfield [MA], ‘Foul Ball Part II.’”
On Sunday, November 17 at 3 pm Eastern Time, classmate Paul Pillar will be returning for a Casual Conversation on Zoom to discuss with us the thesis he elaborates in his most recent book, Beyond the Water’s Edge: How Partisanship Corrupts U.S. Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press 2023).
Sue Leavitt, spouse of ’69 classmate John Leavitt, will again grace us with a piano recital, this time at Noon on Wednesday, October 30. The last time she performed for us on Zoom (Sue having performed for us at Class gatherings in Hanover), I wrote:
On Sunday, October 20 at 3 pm, April Bleske-Rechek, Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire will be our guest for a Casual Conversation.
April does really interesting work.
Dartmouth College President Sian Beilock, email to me (AFF), 07/05/2024.
To say the least.
On Monday, October 14 at 5 pm Eastern Time, we will have a Casual Conversation with Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth Professor of English, Emeritus and Cheheyl Professor and Inaugural Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL). His faculty listing may be found here: https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/thomas-h-luxon . His faculty entry links to his downloadable cv.
Our next Casual Conversation, on Wednesday, October 9 at 5 pm Eastern will be an occasion to spend time with our Dartmouth 1969 classmate, Brian Maracle, who comes to us cou
SAVE. THE. DATE.
Class of 1969 Coming Home 2024 will be October 4-5 to enjoy a football game with Penn, great foliage, and decent weather. (Rather than gathering during the College's official Homecoming the weekend of November 1-2, 2024.)
More information to come later.
Dartmouth College Class of 1969
ComingHome Weekend - October 4-5, 2024
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Mark your calendar – book your hotel room – and plan to join us in Hanover for ComingHome on October 4-5, 2024. The following schedule of events has been updated as of August 1, 2024.
(Note: Our ComingHome weekend does not coincide with the official College Homecoming weekend. There will not be a parade and bonfire.)
Friday, October 4, 2024: