Class Note 1949
Issue
As the new class secretary I was curious about the class numbers. A little research revealed 389 members of ’49 matriculated in 1945: 49 in March, 221 in July and 119 in November. The current College listing shows 312 currently assigned members are on this side of the grass, while 283 were remembered at the memorial service during our 60th reunion in June. Dick Wallace, who died last January, graduated from high school in 1939. George Day got his B.A. from Dartmouth in 1959 after an interlude of 10 years. You figure it out.
Bud Hughes, who contributed so much to previous reunions, missed our 60th because health problems limit his travel. Bud’s living in a home with adjacent medical facilities in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. He says he works out regularly and “keeps things on an even keel.” I talked to Dave Heusinkfeld for the first time in 62 years. Dave is one of the original 49 ’49s. He was a real Chubber who continued his hiking, hunting and fishing in rural Lewiston, Idaho, where he practiced surgery. When asked how he got to Lewiston, he said that a 65-year-old surgeon offered him a partnership; he’d supply the patients and Dave would do the surgery. Ten days after Dave arrived his partner dropped dead. We reminisced about his good friend and my one-time roommate Jay Haft (who died in 1990). One day we heard explosions next door in Smith Hall; it was Jay, along with Dave’s friends Jim McLeod ’50 and Johnny Woodward ’50, both glad-to-be-alive Pacific survivors, who were shooting squirrels out their back window. Dave is housebound with bad knees and hands and would like to hear from old friends at (208) 743-8847.
Punchy Thomas sent along a list of 16 classmates who signed up for the October 1-4 mini-reunion, half of whom live in New Hampshire. Skip Ungar was there, so he’ll supply the details in his newsletter, along with a limerick or two.
As a computer-phobe who still doesn’t use e-mail I will really appreciate your updates by snail mail, phone or fax.
—John Adler, 530 Old Post Road 3, Greenwich, CT 06830; (203) 622-9069; (203) 629-4865 (fax)
Jan - Feb 2010
As the new class secretary I was curious about the class numbers. A little research revealed 389 members of ’49 matriculated in 1945: 49 in March, 221 in July and 119 in November. The current College listing shows 312 currently assigned members are on this side of the grass, while 283 were remembered at the memorial service during our 60th reunion in June. Dick Wallace, who died last January, graduated from high school in 1939. George Day got his B.A. from Dartmouth in 1959 after an interlude of 10 years. You figure it out.
Bud Hughes, who contributed so much to previous reunions, missed our 60th because health problems limit his travel. Bud’s living in a home with adjacent medical facilities in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. He says he works out regularly and “keeps things on an even keel.” I talked to Dave Heusinkfeld for the first time in 62 years. Dave is one of the original 49 ’49s. He was a real Chubber who continued his hiking, hunting and fishing in rural Lewiston, Idaho, where he practiced surgery. When asked how he got to Lewiston, he said that a 65-year-old surgeon offered him a partnership; he’d supply the patients and Dave would do the surgery. Ten days after Dave arrived his partner dropped dead. We reminisced about his good friend and my one-time roommate Jay Haft (who died in 1990). One day we heard explosions next door in Smith Hall; it was Jay, along with Dave’s friends Jim McLeod ’50 and Johnny Woodward ’50, both glad-to-be-alive Pacific survivors, who were shooting squirrels out their back window. Dave is housebound with bad knees and hands and would like to hear from old friends at (208) 743-8847.
Punchy Thomas sent along a list of 16 classmates who signed up for the October 1-4 mini-reunion, half of whom live in New Hampshire. Skip Ungar was there, so he’ll supply the details in his newsletter, along with a limerick or two.
As a computer-phobe who still doesn’t use e-mail I will really appreciate your updates by snail mail, phone or fax.
—John Adler, 530 Old Post Road 3, Greenwich, CT 06830; (203) 622-9069; (203) 629-4865 (fax)