Class Note 1949
Issue
May - Jun 2019
Did you note the astounding miracle in your class dues notice that arrived in February? “I am writing to you as your class president,” wrote George Hartmann from heaven, where he took up residence about a year ago. Ray Truncellito (George’s successor), please take note!
Flashback: Our original class had 271 members in 1945. Their average age was 17 years and 9 months, with 24 only 16 years old when they matriculated. Today’s “baby” is our dedicated newsletter scribe, Skip Unger, who turned 90 this past January. (Correction: Jay Urstadt, who got the appellation in my last column, is demoted to second-youngest.) No wonder Skip has so much energy playing music in retirement communities.
With our 70th reunion just five months away, on September 27-29, Paul Woodberry and Quent Kopp have joined the list of probably attendees. Paul checked in from his home in Sea Island, Georgia, and says he’s feeling good. He’s in touch with Ed Clogston, who won’t make it to Hanover because of severe eye problems.
Quent entertained me and my companion Olha at a pleasant lunch in San Francisco. He’s still actively involved in civic ventures such as an ethics committee and the local Korean War memorial, and relieved that the bullet train, which he sponsored almost 30 years ago, has been mostly aborted because of horrific political mismanagement in the interim.
Henry Leo Gutman died on November 12, 2018, in Baltimore, where he lived. Hank lettered in lacrosse at Dartmouth and spent most of his career at Broger-Gutman, his family’s department store. He is survived by his wife, Babette, daughter Carol, and son Ned.
Herman E. Muller Jr. died on February 10 in New York City, where he lived. “Skip” graduated from Ithaca College, where he chaired the board for many years, but always considered himself a loyal ’49er. He was a certified professional accountant by profession, but also was an inveterate musician, playing the upright bass in Greenwich Village for 50 years. Skip served on many boards, including the National Endowment for the Arts. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn.
—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 637-3227 (fax)
Flashback: Our original class had 271 members in 1945. Their average age was 17 years and 9 months, with 24 only 16 years old when they matriculated. Today’s “baby” is our dedicated newsletter scribe, Skip Unger, who turned 90 this past January. (Correction: Jay Urstadt, who got the appellation in my last column, is demoted to second-youngest.) No wonder Skip has so much energy playing music in retirement communities.
With our 70th reunion just five months away, on September 27-29, Paul Woodberry and Quent Kopp have joined the list of probably attendees. Paul checked in from his home in Sea Island, Georgia, and says he’s feeling good. He’s in touch with Ed Clogston, who won’t make it to Hanover because of severe eye problems.
Quent entertained me and my companion Olha at a pleasant lunch in San Francisco. He’s still actively involved in civic ventures such as an ethics committee and the local Korean War memorial, and relieved that the bullet train, which he sponsored almost 30 years ago, has been mostly aborted because of horrific political mismanagement in the interim.
Henry Leo Gutman died on November 12, 2018, in Baltimore, where he lived. Hank lettered in lacrosse at Dartmouth and spent most of his career at Broger-Gutman, his family’s department store. He is survived by his wife, Babette, daughter Carol, and son Ned.
Herman E. Muller Jr. died on February 10 in New York City, where he lived. “Skip” graduated from Ithaca College, where he chaired the board for many years, but always considered himself a loyal ’49er. He was a certified professional accountant by profession, but also was an inveterate musician, playing the upright bass in Greenwich Village for 50 years. Skip served on many boards, including the National Endowment for the Arts. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn.
—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 637-3227 (fax)