Reminder: The mini-reunion is September 27-30. Contact Punchy Thomas for details.


My thanks to Jay Urstadt, who organized another telephone mini-reunion last June. Joel Berson and I were with Jay in Greenwich, New York. Six classmates responded, three by e-mail.


Phil Goodspeed has retired from his commercial real estate business in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Five operations on his right hip haven’t helped his golf game. He stays in touch with Bob MacArthur, a snowbird who alternates between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Sun City, Florida.


Paul Denecke spent 45 years in the carpet business in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but has given up cutting a rug for travel to China, New Zealand, Tasmania, Vietnam and other exotic places. Paul has owned a condo on Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida, for many years, but doesn’t spend much time there. We’ll try to get him to join Bruce Crawford, Tom Towler, maybe Punchy Thomas and myself next April.


Tom Swartz is taking it easy in Chatham, New Jersey. He stays in touch with Skip Ungar, who frequently entertains the residents of the area’s retirement homes with his virtuoso piano performances.


Paul Bjorkland, our dedicated Dartmouth Fund representative, has been living in a retirement home in Ashby, Virginia, for four years, with his son and family close by. Paul seems to be enjoying his new lifestyle.


We tried to get Clay Morey on the call, but his wife said he is in a nursing home. He remembered Dartmouth and Jay, but wasn’t able to participate.


William Herbert Thayer died on January 5 in Minneapolis, not far from Edina, Minnesota, where he lived. Bill was a financial analyst for more than 50 years. He is survived by wife Marion and five children, to whom the class sends condolences.


James G. Lecce died on May 17 at his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jim was a professor of animal science and microbiology at North Carolina State, where he patented the Autosow, a machine used to wean young pigs without mothers. Jim had a distinguished second career as a sculptor and restorer of tribal art. The class sends it sympathy to his wife, Eileen.


—John Adler, 1623 Pelican Cove Road, BA123, Sarasota, FL 34231; (203) 622-9069; (941) 966-2943 (fax)