Class Note 1949
Issue
September-October 2022
Our dwindling class has gone almost incommunicado. Here’s an update.
According to a recent College listing, we have 65 living classmates. Twenty-five of them didn’t include any biographical data in our 50th reunion booklet (1999), so I assume that they are not interested in the class. That leaves about 40 members who presumably are interested.
From that group, I found a dozen classmates whose names have not appeared in this column since I began writing it 12 years ago. Five of them had disconnected phone numbers and another five had no answering devices. But I did catch up with Bud Petersen and George Weinstein.
Bud and his wife, Elsie, have been married for 71 years and are enjoying life in their Simsbury, Connecticut, retirement home. When Bud graduated he joined his family’s home delivery milk business and transformed it into a chain of 12 family restaurants in the Hartford, Connecticut, area, along with an ice cream manufacturing plant. He remained close to his roommate Doug Thomson until Doug died two years ago.
George is healthy and living by himself in the Boca Raton, Florida, home he and Barbara bought in the early 1990s; she died six years ago. George, with an LL.D. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Columbia, was a certified public accountant partner of Deloitte in New Haven, Connecticut, and then the Miami area. After retiring from Deloitte at 60, George practiced law, specializing in wills and estates. He’s in touch with Skip Unger, his four-year roommate.
Speaking of Skip, he was the only 49er to “oink” in response to my plea for news two issues ago. (He knows how tough it is from his years as newsletter editor.) He spends his time playing bridge as well as the piano in nursing homes. Although Skip got remarried (to Luba) shortly after our 70th reunion, he’s decided not to have any more children.
Dr. Robert Benjamin Berg died on February 5, 2020, in Honolulu, where he lived. Bob received his M.D. from Harvard. He was survived by his wife, Dorothy, five sons, and a daughter.
—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 344-1583, fax
According to a recent College listing, we have 65 living classmates. Twenty-five of them didn’t include any biographical data in our 50th reunion booklet (1999), so I assume that they are not interested in the class. That leaves about 40 members who presumably are interested.
From that group, I found a dozen classmates whose names have not appeared in this column since I began writing it 12 years ago. Five of them had disconnected phone numbers and another five had no answering devices. But I did catch up with Bud Petersen and George Weinstein.
Bud and his wife, Elsie, have been married for 71 years and are enjoying life in their Simsbury, Connecticut, retirement home. When Bud graduated he joined his family’s home delivery milk business and transformed it into a chain of 12 family restaurants in the Hartford, Connecticut, area, along with an ice cream manufacturing plant. He remained close to his roommate Doug Thomson until Doug died two years ago.
George is healthy and living by himself in the Boca Raton, Florida, home he and Barbara bought in the early 1990s; she died six years ago. George, with an LL.D. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Columbia, was a certified public accountant partner of Deloitte in New Haven, Connecticut, and then the Miami area. After retiring from Deloitte at 60, George practiced law, specializing in wills and estates. He’s in touch with Skip Unger, his four-year roommate.
Speaking of Skip, he was the only 49er to “oink” in response to my plea for news two issues ago. (He knows how tough it is from his years as newsletter editor.) He spends his time playing bridge as well as the piano in nursing homes. Although Skip got remarried (to Luba) shortly after our 70th reunion, he’s decided not to have any more children.
Dr. Robert Benjamin Berg died on February 5, 2020, in Honolulu, where he lived. Bob received his M.D. from Harvard. He was survived by his wife, Dorothy, five sons, and a daughter.
—John Adler, 75 Silo Circle, Riverside, CT 06878; (203) 622-9069; (203) 344-1583, fax