Another ’49 grandchild is starring for the Big Green. Luke Hussey ’11, a fifth-year (due to injury) linebacker, has John “Bull Moose” Stearns’ genes in him. Thanks to Paul Woodberry for the info.


Clarke Church sent along a nostalgic memo, “Irish Kindness Remembered,” recalling our classmates’ collective experience on 9/11 in Kinsdale, Ireland. Clarke and Jane, Vi and I, Nomi and Bill Ballard, Carol and the late Burt Proom, Punchy Thomas and Bob Baum were on that never-to-be-forgotten Dartmouth alumni trip. Burt and Carol’s daughter had an office in the World Trade Center, but fortunately was away that day as her shaken parents learned after 24 frantic hours.


After Ireland the Ballards and Vi and I went to London, a ghost city for Americans that week. Vi and I saw six shows and had the last one disrupted because the broker had sold our tickets twice. Afterwards the broker’s written apology offered two tickets free to a show of my choice “on our next trip.” Last July, 10 years later, he honored it when I took my three teenage grandchildren on their maiden trip to London for eight days, a real once-in-a-lifetime treat for the four of us. (Vi lives in a retirement home during the summer and no longer can travel abroad or even to the mini-reunion.)


Joel Berson, my freshman roommate in our cramped one-room Wheeler Hall abode during the spring of 1945, remains a close friend. He still practices law part-time, and he and Annie enjoy Santa Fe, New Mexico, art galleries every summer.


Jay Urstadt sent along his periodic pictorial of Quent Kopp. Quent, in a seersucker suit, is giving a thumbs-up to the attractive co-chair of a San Francisco charitable Gay Pride event.


William Irvine Rogers died on February 14 at his home in Exeter, New Hampshire. Bill spent most of his career with Arthur D. Little, where he headed the biochemical pharmacology laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Ruthanne, and his sons Geoffrey and Christopher, to whom the class sends its condolences.


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