Clif 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
Wines of the Western US January 26, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 6:00pm.
The same sommelier who hosted our initial wine tasting is back – Dona’s cousin, Allie Nault. Allie is a level 3 sommelier currently at the Inn at Little Washington. The Inn is a Relais & Chateaux property set in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains southwest of Washington, DC. Allie had previously been at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans.
You will receive and we will be tasting 5 wines in 375ml bottles:Casual Conversations: Arthur Fergenson and SCOTUS, January 17, 2021
After a November break following John Mathias’s presentation on representing defendants accused of a capital crime, Casual Conversations on Zoom picked back up again on December 20 with Tex Talmadge, assisted by Dudley Kay (on his birthday), leading a discussion on the Civil War. More than 20 classmates attended, as was the case also for John Mathias. In each session, some new faces appeared, a valuable aspect of the program allowing an expansion of active Class members beyond the “usual suspects.”
Casual Conversation with Tex Talmadge onDecember 20, 2020: Civil War
After skipping a month, we will return on Sunday, December 20 at 3 pm Eastern (US) for a Zoom casual conversation led by Tex Talmadge with the possible assistance of Dudley Kay (whose birthday it is that day). Our last casual conversation was led by John Mathias and the topic was his representation of criminal defendants facing the death penalty. This was the most heavily attended of all the sessions, with 23 of us joining i
Pop-up poetry Zoom readings
Inaugurating what I hope will be a new series of ad hoc pop-up Zoom get-togethers, I am sponsoring a Zoom poetry participatory reading this Tuesday, November 24, 2020, at 5 pm Eastern (US). Each person on the call will be expected to read two poems (of any authorship) of his or her choosing. That’s it. No obligation to pick a poem of a certain length, although some verse works—like Paradise Lost or Howl—might be considered
Casual Converstations: John Mathias on October 18, 2020
Our next casual conversation on Zoom, the fifth in the continuing series, will be led by our classmate and immediate past Class president, John Mathias. (The first four were hosted by Tex Talmadge, Peter Elias, Arnie Resnicoff, and Dave Agan.) John’s conversation will be held on Sunday, October 18 at 4 pm Eastern. (Note the change in time from prior sessions.) John’s topic is