Dartmouth College

Class

of

1968

2010 Event Announcements

Fall Mini Reunions

Weekend at the Second College Grant

September 23 - 27 (Thursday through Monday)

For the hearty and hardy souls in the Class, we will plan a second early Fall trip to the Second College Grant, near Wentworth’s Location, way the heck up in northeastern NH.  We have booked the Management Center Cabin at the Grant, renowned for its indoor plumbing, for Thursday, September 23 through Monday, September 27, 2010.  Thursday night is the night of the Full Harvest Moon so it should be especially beautiful up there.  This is the weekend of the football game against one of our new opponents, Sacre Coeur.  So come early on Thursday evening for the Full Moon, hike, bike and fish a little, and then journey down to Hanover on Saturday morning, about a 2 ½ hour drive, for a football victory.  Or take in that football victory and then come on up to the North Country for a victory celebration.  There is plenty of great outdoor activity at the Grant: fishing in the Dead Diamond River right outside the Cabin, mountain bicycling on the Grant’s woods roads, beginning right outside the Cabin which can then lead you to the mountain biking trails, road biking in the glorious lakes country beginning at the entrance to the Grant, cycle over to Rangeley, Maine, the way Bill Clark did last fall, wonderful canoeing or kayaking on the loon laden lakes just beyond the Grant’s front gate, and finally a good hiking trail starts just across the road from the Cabin.  This fall we’ll be at the Grant a week later than last year, so we’re hoping for better foliage this year.  Meals are good wholesome camp food, cooked by the guests.  Accommodations for eleven are in bunkrooms, bring a sleeping bag.  It really is a great time, please think about coming.  We don’t need to perfect our reservation until mid-summer, i.e., that is when we need to come up with some money, but let me know if you have any interest in coming up to the Grant during any part of this long weekend, @ 802-649-7053 or jceverettjr@aol.com .

Mini-Reunion and Class Meeting

October 8 - 10

The Class of 1968 will hold its Fall 2010 Mini-Reunion on the weekend of the Yale Home Football game in Hanover, Friday, October 8, 2010, through Sunday, October 10.  This weekend, rather than Homecoming weekend, was chosen for the Mini-Reunion because it is a three-day holiday weekend (Columbus Day), because it will be at or near the peak of the foliage season, because we’re hoping that the football game and all the other athletic contests during the weekend will be real contests, because the weather is likely to be more temperate than at the end of October, and because the demand for rooms in the Hanover area will only have to be fought over with the visiting leaf peepers and not all the Alumni/ae returning for Homecoming.

Because of a very full and competing Saturday evening schedule, athletic contest (men's soccer) and a reunion dinner (Dartmouth Rugby Club 60th Anniversary), the class dinner at the Fall Mini-Reunion for the Yale Football/Columbus Day weekend, Friday, October 8 to Sunday, October 10, is moved from Saturday night to Friday night.  Time, place, and location still to be determined, but the scheduled dinner time will take into consideration that participants may be traveling to the Upper Valley on Friday evening; however, cocktail hour may not.  The remainder of the Fall Mini-Reunion schedule as set out in the Spring 2010 Newsletter remains in force except that the men's soccer match will begin under the lights on Saturday evening, around dinner time.   I need to have expressions of interest from classmates who think they might be attending the Fall Mini-Reunion and the Friday evening dinner.  These expressions of interest are not commitments and you will not be held to any initial expression of interest, but please help me out with making a plan for the size and location of our Class dinner.  Call or write early and often: John Everett @ 802-649-7053 or jceverettjr@aol.com .  Our record these past few years about reaching a large enough critical mass in order to make a reservation for an evening dinner has not been great, so I ask for your early expressions of interest in order that we can have a good class get together at dinner on Friday evening.

Saturday morning, October 9, will see a Class meeting, at which a decision may be made about the Class’s collective 65^th birthday party celebration and location, and it will be followed by a tailgate in the forenoon on the AD fraternity lawn, courtesy of John Engelman.  The tailgate ends because the Dartmouth-Yale football game begins immediately across East Wheelock Street, then later in the afternoon the men’s and women’s soccer matches follow over at the Burnham Soccer pitch.

 If there are enough Classmates in town and interested, we can schedule cocktails on Friday evening and/or a Sunday brunch at a local establishment.

Homecoming - Dartmouth Night

October 29 - 30 2009

Later in the fall, Homecoming weekend and Dartmouth Night will take place on Friday, October 29, and Saturday, October 30, 2010.  The object of our football and other athletic matches that weekend will be Harvard.  The Class will participate fully in the activities of Homecoming Weekend, starting with the Dartmouth Night parade on Friday night.  As you may recall we assemble in the dark across from Memorial Field, process down Lebanon Street in glorious assemblage, lead by our own John Engelman in his “GEAR ’68” Chrysler convertible, top down, up Main Street, around the Green, finally assembling in front of Dartmouth Hall for all those engaging and thrilling speeches, riveting even.  Dartmouth Night is then capped off by the ONLY BONFIRE of the fall.  Post-bonfire, we’ve usually co-assembled with the Class of ’69 for cocktails at a location to be chosen, and we will do that again.

Saturday morning will begin again with a tailgate on the AD fraternity lawn, not as elegant, but just as much fun as the tailgate for the Class Mini-Reunion on Yale weekend.  The football game versus Harvard will begin in the early afternoon across East Wheelock Street at Memorial Field, and later in the afternoon the men’s and women’s soccer matches will take place down at Chase Field at the Whitey Burnham Soccer Stadium.  Saturday evening we will have informal dinners together with classmates and friends at local bistros.