A welcome phone call and a card from Ham Chase finds him in assisted living in Keene, New Hampshire, recovering from a bad gash on one leg suffered in a fall. Although he has given up driving, he is ambulatory. He remembers his many friends from among classmates and fellow students. Nick and Cindy Nickelsen are comfortable in a retirement community in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, the town where they have lived for 55 years. Nick had a stroke several years ago, which has slowed them down. Dave and Pat Squire spent several weeks in Hanover during the summer, as they have done for the past nine years. The vacation enabled them to play tennis, sit in on classes, attend lectures and concerts and wander around Hanover and Norwich, Woodstock and Montpelier, Vermont. In March they cruised the Panama Canal and Costa Rica and in June went on a riverboat cruise from Paris to Normandy, where they viewed the landing beaches from June 1944. Doug Burch is starting his 27th year at Nantucket’s Whaling Museum as an interpreter and lecturer. He has written various articles for the Historical Association magazine and for other journals. He and Eleanor are looking forward to their 65th wedding anniversary in January. Alan Epstein, former class president and current bequest chairman, has agreed to serve as head agent, to replace Frank Weber. In a phone call, Royal Brush indicated that although he is still driving, the distance from Cochranville, Pennsylvania, was further than he wanted to travel to our mini-reunion.


The class was saddened by the news of the unexpected death of Al Bildner’s wife, Joan, in June. The sympathy of the class is extended to the families of David Emmons, who died June 22, and Alan Stern, who died May 19.


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