Virtual Wine Tasting May 25, 2021
Our most recent wine testing (March 25th) was a great time!
Casual Conversation with Professor Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin May 18th 2021
A special Casual Conversation on Tuesday, May 18 at 5 pm Eastern will feature as our guest the Chair of Dartmouth’s History Department, Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin. This is the second of our Zoom sessions with Dartmouth faculty, the first being the Jewish Culture Group’s meeting with Jewish Studies Professor Susannah Heschel, daughter of the famed Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Saturday night at the Movies, April 24, 2021
On April 24 at 8 pm Eastern (US), film fans will once again gather for Saturday Night at the Movies employing the services of Amazon Prime’s Watch Party function. Our last Saturday Night at the Movies joined nine of us together for the exemplary Caged starring Academy Award nominee Eleanor Parker and a cast of superb women actors including Hope Emerson as the cruel matron of a women’s prison. After we watched the movie, using the chat function to comment in real time, we convened via Zoom for a richer, “in person” discussion that lasted for almost an hour.
Casual Conversation with Ray Saginur April 25, 2021
After last month’s successful (37 participants at the height) Casual Conversation with Paul Tuhus sharing tips and answering questions about travel, we take a trip across the border into Canada for classmate and Ottawa resident Ray Saginur, M.D., to lead a discussion on Ethics and Covid-19. Ray, as his description of the upcoming session and his bio attest, is trained in both infectious disease and ethics. While a pandemic i
Class Jewish Culture Zoom Group event April 12, 2021
On April 12 at 4pm EasteClif Family Wine Tasting March 25th, 2021
Wines of the Clif Family Winery, St. Helena, CA
Casual Conversation March 21, 2021 with Paul Tuhus
On Sunday, March 21, at 3 pm Eastern our classmate Paul Tuhus will lead a Casual Conversation on travel. Paul’s description below of his lifetime of traversing our country and the world ought to entice all of us to attend this timely session held on the first full day of Spring. Get ready for your own travel when the lifting of pandemic restrictions gives you comfort. But there is no time like the present to plan for you to spread your wings. On March 21, let your imagination take flight.
Saturday Night at the Movies, March 20, 2021
On Saturday, February 27, your classmates held the second Saturday Night at the Movies using the Watch Party function of Amazon Prime. Ten of us, plus partners, attended. The film was The Set-Up (1949), starring Dartmouth heavyweight boxing champion Robert Ryan, Class of 1932. Attendees had such a good time that we are doing a third Saturday Night at the Movies on March 20 at 8 pm Eastern.
Announcing our first Movie Night 2/27/2021
The Set-Up has been chosen for several reasons: it is a superb boxing movie with a compelling story line, beautifully directed, filmed and edited, and acted. Ryan provides a Dartmouth and boxing connection. It is also short: only 1 hour and 12 minutes. Further, it is one of the few movies to observe the unity of time. The movie opens on a street clock and ends on the same clock 72 minutes later. (Another movie that follows a strict unity of time and a strict unities of place and action is Hitchcock’s Rope which was filmed so as to appear to be a single continuous shot. High Noon with
Casual Conversations: Sandy Alderson and Spring Training in a Covid World