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Dear Classmate of Dartmouth 1979,Time is running out on our Dartmouth College Fund campaign … can the Class and I count on your support again this year? Please let me know … thanks!
Even if only a modest or token gift for participation, regardless of the amount, I am very grateful for your most loyal and generous support.
Best regards, Dave Philhower Give online: www.dartmouthcollegefund.org/give Text: Text “@dcf_#1979” to phone number 52014 - enter amount, then follow link to provide infoCall: (800) 228-1769 or (978) 578-8932Mail: check payable to Dartmouth College Fund, 6066DevelopmentOffice,Hanover,NH03755-4400
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Dartmouth 79 (May 24) · D79s closing the Partycipation gap at the Dartmouth
College Fund phone-athon at the Yale Club of New York City. Jim Wasz, Peggy Epstein Tan-ner and Stanley Weil. R
newsletterclass of the year: 1997, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015 No Dartmouth class has as many wins as Dartmouth 1979
Unreservedly Dartmouth’s Best Class.
Mark Winkler, Outgoing [email protected]
JUNE 2017 19791979DARTMOUTH
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Recurring GiftsDartmouth has created a neat “recurring” gift feature for online gifts. If you have, or want to establish, a “base” contribution to Dartmouth you can do it now on your credit card. The gift then gets charged to your credit card annually, quarterly or monthly as you wish. You could then “true up” your charitable giving when you assess this at your own pace. This helps the College, Agents and your conscience!
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Class of 1979Dartmouth College Fund Update
2016
1769 SocietyLast year we had 86 members of the 1769 Society, a non-reunion record for the generous 79’s! We also generated an additional $100,000 for the College through a generous matching gift from two classmates who contributed $1769 foreverymemberafterMarch31! This year we have obtained a matchof$1769foreveryNEWmember of the 1769 Society. Throughmid-Novemberwehad18 members including 6 newbies. It’s never too late to help out! V
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Give online: www.dartmouthcollegefund.org/give Text: Text “@dcf_#1979” to phone number 52014 enter amount, then follow link to provide infoCall: (800) 228-1769 or (978) 578-8932Mail: check payable to Dartmouth College Fund, 6066DevelopmentOffice, Hanover,NH03755-4400
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We Want You!We Need You!!Please help support your
Class Newsletter in any way that you can.
Gather News. Write articles. Layout pages.
Curate photos. Join the team! Please contact: Mark Winkler at
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Peggy Epstein Tanner: “Greetings from Hanover. A fun mini-reunion last night at the DOC House with Gregg
Engles and proud Dartmouth ‘17 parent’s Edita and Peter Robinson! k
Peggy Epstein Tanner posted on facebook May 4, 2017: “79s GOT TALENT!” Memorable night in NYC as
Beth Blatt and Gina Barreca separately showcased their talents through humor and/or song. We are so fortunate and proud to call them our classmates and friends. Beth was the opener for a women’s comedy night at the Friar’s club sing-ing a brilliant song that she wrote about aging. Gina was the guest speaker at the Writing Center at Hunter College and wowed the crowd with her wit and intelligence. u
George Stone shared a photo from Greece on 5/13/2017 “More green history in Mykonos!!” i Joy Kerkhoff Wasz creations posted on facebook on April
20: In the footsteps of the Legendary Dartmouth 79ers b
A few good 79 updates
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Buddy Teevens with Phil Olson and with Curtiss Takada Rooks on May 14 in sunny southern California on
Buddy’s west coast tour. Buddy never ages. What’s up with that? 3
Bill Mitchell posted on facebook on May 21: “We had our 5th DCF Rocket Raffle winner this past
week. Todd Scantlebury picked a Mystery Box winner... ya gotta be in it to win it! NY folks, telethon the 23rd and 24th at the Yale Club! Please come and help!?” B
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Winkler Wasz Ross Samuels
Currier Weil Briscoe Odence
Cameron Oppenheim Mitchell Laidlaw
Bula Swigget Ewing Riley
Dartmouth College Class of 1979 Officers (2015-2020)
LeadershipMark Winkler, President • [email protected]
Jim Wasz, Vice-President & Class Projects • [email protected]
CommunicationBarbara Wiese Ross, Newsletter Editor • [email protected]
Adam Samuels, Webmaster • [email protected] Currier, Co-Secretary • [email protected]
Stan Weil, Co-Secretary • [email protected]
CommunityCarl Briscoe, Mini-Reunion Co-Chair • [email protected] Phil Odence, Mini-Reunion Co-Chair • [email protected]
Barbara Smiley Bula, Co-Class-Steward • [email protected] Laura Powers-Swigget, Co-Class-Steward • [email protected] Tom Ewing, Classmate Outreach • [email protected]
Ben Riley, Class Historian • [email protected] Brendan Cameron, Class Partnering Ambassador • [email protected]
ServiceEllen Gomprecht Oppenheim, Class Treasurer • [email protected]
Bill Mitchell, Head Class Agent DCF • [email protected] Laidlaw, Communication/Strategy DCF • [email protected]
Jim Feuille, Leadership Gifts DCF • [email protected] Epstein Tanner, Leadership Gifts DCF • [email protected]
Dave Philhower, Participation Co-Chair DCF • [email protected] Weil, Participation Co-Chair DCF • [email protected] Stone, Bartlett Tower Co-Chair • [email protected]
Nancy Malmquist, Bartlett Tower Co-Chair • [email protected] Hughes, Alumni Council Representative • [email protected] Wheelock, Founder of Dartmouth College • died April 24, 1779
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Philhower Weil Feuille Tanner
Stone Malmquist Hughes Wheelock
Please Pay Your Class DuesJust a gentle reminder, if you have not yet done so, to please pay your class dues. Why? Your financial sup-port provides memorial gifts for classmates who have passed on, class newsletters and other communica-tions, mini-reunions, and classmate support. Also, you help support our class project that gives direct op-portunities for Dartmouth undergraduates to provide
service to the community. How cool is that? To pay today, you can use the QR code for our class website (1979.dartmouth.org). With sincere thanks, Your Class of 1979 Treasurer, -Ellen Gomprecht Oppenheim
facebook 79 There is an active community of Class of 1979 classmates who share their updates on our Class facebook group. This is a politics-free zone. Please consider joining to post your news, or simply to see our class news and updates.
Either search for “Dartmouth 79” or use the QR code link to our group.
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For a future issue of our class newsletter, we would like to feature “The History of the Dartmouth Class of 1979
in 79 Objects.” What would you include for our history? What objects—with accompanying photos and background stories—help capture our essential class history?
Some possible objects for consideration might include some of the objects in the photos below such as our Freshman Book, 1979 Aegis, and our Top-Tier bonfire.
Put your thinking caps on. Dig into those College boxes up in the attic. Find your scrapbooks, letters, or notebooks. You’ve been saving these items for this very moment. Per-haps Rauner Library has objects of 79? Think creatively!
Other objects for our Class History Project might in-clude: our graduation diploma (which had two variations of the Latin text), our Class flag (given to us by the Class of 1929), our Admission Office acceptance letter, Dart-mouth ID card, Matriculation certificate signed by Ralph
Manual, some classic issue of the Daily Dartmouth, Fall 1975 Freshman Trips, 17 Rope Ferry Road, our Class tents, a 79 emblazoned bedsheet on Dartmouth Hall, some object representing the 147 of our classmates who are Dartmouth legacies, some object representing the sons and daughters of classmates who attended Dartmouth, Grateful Dead concert, the Class of 1979 Partycipatory trademark autho-rization, Memorial Service at Reunions, reunion swag, Class of the Year Awards, car license plates (e.g., ZEKE 79, Ohio 79, NH100 Tier, etc.), mini-reunions, pins, banners, books, posters, sweaters, LSA, FSP, DCF, DPCS, classes, dorms, travel, sports, etc.
Besides collecting and submitting objects for our 79 Objects Project, if you would like to help us curate the final selection, please share your interest with us as well through the email provided below.
In the meantime, thanks for looking. Happy hunting. T
An Invitation to all Classmates: What 79 objects define our Class? Please submit your ideasof objects for The History of Dartmouth Class of 1979 in 79 Objects
79 Objects ProjectPlease send your ideas with: • hi-resolution photo(s) of object, • the story behind the object• names of any classmates • why the object helps capture the history of our Class of 79.
Send to Mark Winkler [email protected].
Include "79 Objects" in subject.
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