Dartmouth Class of 1968 Community Service Project

Welcome to the Dartmouth Class of 1968 Community Service Project.

We designed the project to help classmates and their spouses/partners – individually and collectively – assist communities in need at the College and around the world. The project reflects John Sloan Dickey’s quote – "The world's troubles are your troubles ... and there is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings cannot fix."

Many classmates have supported worthy causes through their jobs or on their own, and now in retirement have more time to help communities in need. Collectively our Class possesses an abundance of knowledge, experience, and contacts that members could tap into to carry out effective and efficient community service activities and avoid reinventing the wheel. The class is an ideal vehicle for this initiative, facilitating a wide range of activities, and encouraging a new, dynamic, and meaningful dimension to our communications and conversations: helping classmates do good works.

The Community Service Project has two components. One is a secure, search-able database (hereafter called the Catalog) accessible only from our class website with an individualized password. The other is a private communications application, Google Workspace, to facilitate contact and the sharing of ideas and information among participating classmates and their spouses/partners.

Using these applications, you’ll be able to document and share experiences you’ve had and knowledge, contacts, and lessons learned that might be of interest and potentially useful to others in pursuing similar service activities. You’ll also be able to share ideas you have for new activities and solicit help. While you may participate in only one of these components, we think the project will be most successful if all participants are involved in both.

In terms of scope, we’re using the broadest possible definition of community (geographic, context, sector, species, etc.), and we support the widest range of activities within and outside the College. Note that we’ll seek the College’s approval for any Dartmouth-centric activities to ensure there’s a good fit; if you have a project to propose, please contact Peter Hofman by email.

To register for the Catalog and Google Workspace, please click on the Request Access button below. To access either one, where we provide further instructions, please click on the Access Button.

Thanks for your interest in our Class Community Service Project. Your active participation will contribute to what we hope will be a wide range of activities that support communities in need, wherever they may be.