On January 6 the Valley News featured an interview with Ray Truncellito about his football career at Dartmouth. The late Joe Sullivan was also acclaimed for being drafted by the Detroit Lions as a running back in the fourth round of the NFL draft. Joe was the 32nd overall pick, five ahead of future pro Football Hall of Famer Norm van Brocklin.


As you know from the last column, Gordon Thomas died unexpectedly in his sleep on Christmas Eve. “Punchy” probably did more for our class through more years than any other classmate, and he will be sorely missed. He was involved with our mini-reunions for more than 40 years and hosted the reunion Sunday brunches at his home in Norwich, Vermont, with Doris until her death, and more recently with his second wife, Pat, at their house in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. He was on our executive committee for the last 30 years and served as secretary and then president for most of the 1970s. Nobody had more close friends in the class than Punchy. Ray Truncellito, George Hartmann, Vail Haak, John Stearns and Punchy’s very good non-New Hampshire friend Bob Baum represented the class at the celebration of his life.


After getting his law degree at Columbia Punchy spent the bulk of his career as vice president and general counsel of ITT Continental Baking Co. in Harrison, New York, adjacent to Rye, where he grew up. In 1979 I had the pleasure of working closely with him and Frank Wuerfel ’47, Tu’49, on a candy company divestiture. Punchy is survived by Pat and his daughters Krista Corr ’86 and Alix Jenkins, to whom the class sends it deepest sympathy.


Edward R. Clark died on April 12, 2012, in Winchester, Virginia, where he lived. Ed spent his career as a personnel manager with the C&P Telephone Co. in Washington, D.C. He and his late wife, Elizabeth, retired to his farm in Green Springs near Winchester in 1983. The class sends it condolences to his son and four daughters.


—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 637-3227 (fax)