November/December 2014.

In London, Shakespeare’s Globe named Ralph Alan Cohen as the 2014 Sam Wanamaker award winner. Ralph is co-founder and director of mission at the American Shakespeare Center and was the project director for the re-creation of the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia. Ralph is Gonder Professor of Shakespeare and Performance and founder of the Master of Letters and Fine Arts program at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia since 2003. Ralph earned his doctorate in English at Duke University and has received honorary degrees from St. Lawrence University and Georgetown University. He is the author of ShakesFear and How to Cure It: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare and has presented an entertaining TEDxCharlottesville talk called “The case of audience held hostage in the dark.” Ralph founded the Studies Abroad program at James Madison University, where he won Virginia’s award for outstanding faculty member.

Ron Fagin of San Jose, California received the 2014 Gödel Prize for a paper in theoretical computer science that has had major impact.  Also he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is considered one of the nation's highest honors.  Ron is a Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center (IBM's highest technical honor).
 
The 2014 Class Activities Report (available on Class webpage) notes ‘67 had an excellent year, with top performance in all of the major categories reported. The Class maintained our level of dues participation, and increased the funds raised by our check-offs for our class projects. 
Our 50th Reunion will be June 9 -11, 2017. Look for updated news on the class webpage (there is a tab for the 50th). Planning for the 50th is moving ahead. The team developing the Reunion book of our reflections on Living in a Time of Momentous Change began working with classmates on developing chapters.  The team developing the DVD class history began developing the technical requirements for handling the input we will be reaching out for beginning soon. The College approved our two Major Gift Projects for the 50th -- a new cabin at Moosilauke and a gallery for A Space for Dialogue at the soon to be expanded Hood Museum.  

Start assembling your photos, videos, personal stories on whatever you want to say and share about your life, loves, and Dartmouth in the 50 years since graduation. This will be presented in the context of video, music, and photos of what has happened at Dartmouth and in the world at large in the 50 Year DVD.  Look for more details to appear in this column.

Stay well! Keep me posted. Dave Mangelsdorff, 3410 Turtle Village Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78230-3918) e-mail to dmangels@idworld.net  or call 210-344-0942