Class Note 1946
Five years ago 50 persons, including 17 class members, attended our 65th class reunion. Now that we are young nonagenarians we have a great opportunity to do even better at our upcoming 70th reunion Friday, September 30, to Sunday, October 2. Since the College is footing the bill, we may make it. If you have not already replied to the invitations to attend, please do ASAPso that I can include the results in my next column. So far our class widows are showing interest as the following Green Card responses indicate. Susemarie Swenson will attend in honor of her late husband Roy A. Swenson.“Dee” Kruschwitz, widow of Henry W. Kruschwitz,hopes to attend with her son, David ’74. Dee lives in Foulkeways, a senior retirement community in Pennsylvania where my brother, Al ’38, resides and just celebrated his 99th birthday.
Bob Clifton is looking forward to the reunion. He was in Naples, Florida, for six months and returned to Westport, Massachusetts, this past April. He took a river cruise down the Danube last fall and will go around the British Isles this August. He plays golf two times weekly. His children live in diverse global locations. Richard H. Bohn writes of his recovery from kidney failure and enjoying retirement, having sold his home. Cruising with family and grandchildren, Jack Nascone is enjoying a lot of activities at a continuing care facility in Casa de las Campanas in Rancho Bernardo, California, where he is joined by three other Dartmouth alumni from different classes. Christian M. Gianola lives in White Plains, New York, with his second son. His wife died in 2006. I grew up a block away from his home on Soundview Avenue. Fletcher Ingals writes from Carson City, Nevada, that he takes no pills and is in good health. James D. Shute Jr. expressed concern “about the possible closing of the Greek fraternities at Dartmouth” and that the “College has gone overboard being liberal or politically correct.”
Our sympathies to the families of deceased classmates. The College has just learned of the death of William Charles Baldwin on August 9,1989. More recently, Louis Meyer Heller died February 17, Raymond Edward Campbell died February 24, Douglas Berry Leigh died February 28. Douglas was the creator and designer of our class logo, Friendly the Dragon, class officer, newsletter editor (1966-71) and distinguished art director with major New York City ad agencies before creating his own agency and creative service. He was recognized by his industry for excellence of his graphic designs and ads.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 1160 Fifth Ave., Suite 105, New York City, NY 10029; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com
