Our class headquarters was in HARKNESS HOUSE, and as promised, your reunion committee decorated the lounge in tacky '60's decor especially for our 40th reunion.
VIETNAM WAR VOTED DEFINING EVENT OF OUR DECADE
We had a new feature created especially for this reunion: SIXTIES BRACKETOLOGY--voting on the DEFINING EVENT OF OUR DECADE. Your outgoing class president preseeded "The Dance" with 32 notable events of the Sixties. (CLICK HERE to see the 32.) Throughout the weekend, we voted on which events moved forward to the Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, etc. We had a spirited and thoughtful discussion at our wind-down session after the procession Sunday morning. It was a close vote, but the Vietnam War edged out the Civil Rights Act as the single most defining event of our decade. Some of the issues raised: should it be defining at the point in time that the sixties rolled into the seventies or looking back today, with 40 years experience? Should it be defining in how it affected us personally or how it affected society overall? As it turned out, most of us had difficulty NOT letting our 40 years of life experience color the discussion, and the personal impact weighed heavily on our opinions. And yes, Kennedy's assassination was the most traumatic event, but it was not chosen to be the defining one.
At dinner Saturday we had another BROWN '67 REUNION TRIVIA CONTEST (see below) and danced to the same great DJ's from our 35th Reunon.
Bruce McIntosh won the SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY COLLAGE photo contest, against very little competition. But he correctly matched 18 of our classmates with their photos, which was most impressive. (See our class home page for photo collage.) Here are the answers:
1. Phyllis Mudrick Cohen and family
2. Chuck Primus, Romana Strochlitz Primus
3. Larry Title, Mike Natelson, Joel Widelitz and Mike's family
4. Carlyle Thayer
5. Vicki Robin
6. Lynne Mooney Hickey, Myra Bluestein Rufo
7. Marge Attwater Mosher
8. Tom Ferguson, Jonathan Brown
9. Pat Maley [Nancy Turck ‘68]
10. Rick Smith
11. Linda Erikson Houghton, Meg Van de Graaf Shannon, Carolyn Laughlin Vandam
12. Rula Patterson Shore, Elaine Decker, Carolyn Laughlin Vandam, Sid Okashige, Elias Safdie, Peter Lynch, Keith Mosher, Margery Attwater Mosher
Bruce with Elaine and Sid ("Fresh Brains" with two Presidents...)
Who Came?
Click on above to link to Brown's official reunion page and scroll down to 1967, then click through "attendees" link to see list of those officially registered. Several more registered on campus Reunion Weekend. Scroll down on this page to see our unofficial list of classmates who attended our 40th Reunion.
BROWN '67 40TH REUNION TRIVIA CONTEST
1. Which of the following was NOT something at Brown named after a Metcalf?
a. Metcalf Botanical Garden, b. Metcalf Gymnasium, c. Metcalf Hall, d. Metcalf Laboratory
2. The Year was 1967… Or was it?
a. The last May Day/Mother-Daughter Weekend held at Pembroke.
b. The Afro-American Society was founded at Brown.
c. Closed circuit WBRU became WBRU-FM, reaching outside Brown.
d. Group Independent Study Program participants Magaziner and Maxwell prepared a report calling for radical changes in curriculum.
e. Marston Boat House was dedicated.
3. The Decade was the Nineteen Sixties… Or was it?
Which of the following slogans are from the sixties?
[Bonus points for each product you know.]
Power to the people; Take it off… take it all off; Put a tiger in your tank; Flick my Bic;
_____ Tastes good like a cigarette should; _____ would rather fight than switch.
4. Which of the following was NOT a regular meal on the Pembroke dining menu:
a. Chicken a la King, b. Turkey Tetrazini, c. Train Wreck, d. Nachos Libre
5. Place the following architectural marvels in the correct chronological order; all served as Brown dormitories at some time:
a. Archibald House, b. Caswell Hall, c. Harkness House, d. Hope College
6. Place the following technological innovations in the correct chronological order:
a. Control top panty hose, b. Long-leg panty girdles, c. Spanx, d. Garter belts
7. Place the following buildings in the correct chronological order; all served as Brown libraries:
a. John Carter Brown, b. John Hay, c. John D. Rockefeller, d. Robinson Hall
8. Which of the following does NOT belong?
a. Artichoke, b. Wedge, c. Sliver, d. Flip
9. Place the following men’s hairstyles in correct chronological order:
a. Afro/natural. b. D.A., c. Flat top/crew cut, d. Comb over
(Bonus point: what does D.A. stand for?)
10. Dr. Ruth is:
a. An honorary member of Brown’s Class of ’67, b. A renowned sex therapist made famous by a member of Brown’s Class of ’67, c. A therapeutic candy bar created by a member of Brown’s Class of ’67 and made with peanuts, chocolate and marijuana, d. All of the above
(Bonus point if you know who promoted Dr. Ruth.)
Answers:
1. b. 2. a. Yes; b. Yes; c. No (1966); d. Yes; e. Yes
3. All were sixties except: Flick my Bic (mid 1970’s) and
_____ Tastes good like a cigarette should (Winston—1950’s)
Products were: Take it off… take it all off (Noxema Medicated Shave Cream)
Put a tiger in your tank (Esso) _____ would rather fight than switch (Tareyton smokers)
(Cigarette ads were banned from TV in 1971.)
4. d. 5. d; b; c; a 6. d; b; a; c
7. d (1878); a (1904); b (1910); c (1964)
8. c (Others are all hairdos) 9. b; c; a; d (D.A. stands for Duck’s Ass)
10. a and b (Dr. Ruth was promoted by Marjorie “Dee Dee” Marks.)
CLASS OF '67 REUNION SCHEDULE (HIGHLIGHTS)
FRIDAY
Welcome Reception and Dinner and '60's Bracketology Revealed
SATURDAY (Class-specific activities--see official Brown site for University events)
Continental Breakfast and All-Class Memorial Service
Saturday Lunch
Casual barbecue under Tent #2
At the end of lunch, Professor John Tomasi, Director of the Political Theory Project at Brown and one of the University's most popular professors, joined us as our guest speaker.
Saturday Dinner and CLASS PHOTO (6:15)
SUNDAY
THE PROCESSION and CLASS of '67 WIND-DOWN
This was followed by an informal wind-down session for our class, once again at our class headquarters, when we had the title round of the "Defining Event of the '60's" and also a brief roundtable discussion on retirement.
Suggested reading and some provocative questions:
The Number by Lee Eisenberg
Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being by Andrew Weil
Aging Well by George Vaillant
Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman
The Seven Stages of Money by George Kinder
Kinder's Three Questions:
- Assume you have all the money you will need for the rest of your life. What would you do with it? How would you live?
- You learn that you have a rare, fatal illness. You’ll feel fine, but will die in 5 – 10 years, suddenly. Knowing this, how will you live your life? What would you do?
- You feel fine, but your doctor says you have a serious illness and have just 24 hours to live. What did you miss? Who did you not get to be? What did you not get to do?
What does your answer to question #3 tell you about how you might want to spend your “retirement” years?
Who Came?
(Click on above to link to Brown's official reunion page; scroll down to 1967, then click through "attendees" link to see latest list of those officially registered.)
The following members of Brown ‘67 attended our 40th Reunion:
Paul Alexander, Bartholomew and Jean Ryan Alfano, Winfred N. Anakwa, John Bagwell, Edward Bancroft, Bill Barrett Jr., John Barrett, James Bartis, Bob Blackburn, Doug Blair, David Bojar, Richard Bollow , Russell Bosworth, Neil Bromberg, Louise Vitiello Burroughs, Stephen Cantrill, David Chichester, Robert Clark III, Ronald Clark, Ann Whitney Cleaves, Stephen Cofer-Shabica, Jonathan Cole, Marge Bletcher Colloff, Robert and Barbara Saunders Conta, David Cranmer,
John Crosby Jr., Elaine Decker, Jim Falconer, Alexander Filipp, Harris Finberg, Alan Fishman, David Fowler, Mary Louise Frampton, Gregory Fritz, Alan Furler, Margaret Perkins Gennaro, Judy Gilmore, Joel Goldberg, Betty Wolf Greenberg, Roland Guyotte III, John Hall Jr., Samuel Halpert, David and Janet Levin Hawk, Stephen Hazard, Charles Heckler, Lynn Mooney Hickey, Marilyn Friedman Hoffman, Earl Holt III, Linda Erikson Houghton, Paul Hurlburt Jr., John and Judy Minnow Hushon, Michael Hutter Esq., Lillian Jackson, Gene Johanson, Robert Kissam, Eric Kronstadt, Ron Leavitt, Victoria Leung Lee, Mark Lefkowitz, Carol Lemlein, Terry Mood Leopold, Daniel Maksymowicz II, D. Patrick Maley III, Norm Mandelbaum, Marjorie Marks, Charles McClaskey, Bruce McIntosh, Lora Pond Mirza, F. Thomas Moran, Keith and Margery Attwater Mosher, Brian Murphy, Gene D. Newman, Bruce Noble, Robert O'Day, Sid Okashige, Richard Osborne, Wayne Pasanen, Linda Pei, Gerald Pierson, Martha Twining Pitt, Chuck and Romana Strochlitz Primus, Bob Reymers, Robert Rice III, Ray Risner, Joseph Ruma, Elias Safdie, Susan Salms-Moss, David Santry, Antoinette Tingley Schleyer, Sally Sevcik, Dennis Sheahan, Kay Shibley, Rula Patterson Shore, udith Sockut Silverman, John Skonberg, Rick Smith, Shirley Smith, Margaret Clark Sproul, Leroy Stoddard Jr., Jane Golin Strom, Elspeth Eustis Taylor, Lynn Taylor, Randolph Thummel, Anne Tillinghast, Bill and Paula Allemang Turner, Jim Van Blarcom, Carolyn Laughlin Vandam, Mitchell H. Vigeveno, Rolf Vom Dorp, James Wells Jr., Richard Whipple, Dave Wile, John Williamson Jr., Katherine Sanford Wilson, A. Emory Wishon III, John Witmeyer Esq., Karen Zabrocki and many more.
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