Class Note 1950
Issue
Jan - Feb 2018
Nineteen of us greatly enjoyed our 2017 mini-reunion over the weekend of October 6-8, drizzly weather notwithstanding. Dramatis personae included Jack Harned and Jilly, Jaques Harlow and Rusty, Bob Kirby and Brownlee, Joel Leavitt and Vida, Joe Medlicott and Stephanie, Doug Smith and Merideth, Dave Taylor and Karren, Tom Ruggles, Joan McIlwain, Marge Nichols, Molly Scheu and Alex Hoffman.
Smiley Ruggles and his banjo led our singers on a flatbed truck in the Friday night parade before the bonfire on the Green. At the class meeting Saturday morning treasurer Harlow reported that, after making our yearly $2,500 contributions to the Dickey, Collis and athletic foundations, we’ll have a balance of about $22,000. Though down a bit in 2016, our class still ranks first or second in lifetime giving to the College. In the absence of challengers, you’re stuck with incumbent class officers.
On Saturday afternoon the football team fell behind 17-0 before beating Yale 28-27 in the closing seconds. That evening we had our own room for a convivial dinner at the Norwich Inn. After the meal we shared reflections on events and actions in our long lives that have meant the most to us, and both the pleasures and problems of this late stage of our lives. Our next mini-reunion will be on the weekend of October 26-28, Homecoming 2018, with football vs. Harvard. Put it on your calendars.
Kayla McFarland has informed me of the passing of her grandfather, J. Leo Appel, on September 5, 2017. The College has informed me of the passing of Parton Crane Keese on August 25, 2017.
We live now in a parlous and unprecedented time that has drawn attention to a seldom-considered aspect of the Constitution. The 25th Amendment empowers a majority of the president’s cabinet to remove him from office if they judge him to be unfit to fulfill its duties. When one of the White House staff mentioned the 25th Amendment to him recently, the president said, “What’s that?” He seems equally unaware of the First Amendment, having said it is disgusting that the press can say anything they want and that this must be looked into. Does this frighten you?
—Alex Hoffman, 49 Maple St., Apt. 113, Manchester Center, VT 05255; (802) 362-2486; twinksalex@comcast.net
Smiley Ruggles and his banjo led our singers on a flatbed truck in the Friday night parade before the bonfire on the Green. At the class meeting Saturday morning treasurer Harlow reported that, after making our yearly $2,500 contributions to the Dickey, Collis and athletic foundations, we’ll have a balance of about $22,000. Though down a bit in 2016, our class still ranks first or second in lifetime giving to the College. In the absence of challengers, you’re stuck with incumbent class officers.
On Saturday afternoon the football team fell behind 17-0 before beating Yale 28-27 in the closing seconds. That evening we had our own room for a convivial dinner at the Norwich Inn. After the meal we shared reflections on events and actions in our long lives that have meant the most to us, and both the pleasures and problems of this late stage of our lives. Our next mini-reunion will be on the weekend of October 26-28, Homecoming 2018, with football vs. Harvard. Put it on your calendars.
Kayla McFarland has informed me of the passing of her grandfather, J. Leo Appel, on September 5, 2017. The College has informed me of the passing of Parton Crane Keese on August 25, 2017.
We live now in a parlous and unprecedented time that has drawn attention to a seldom-considered aspect of the Constitution. The 25th Amendment empowers a majority of the president’s cabinet to remove him from office if they judge him to be unfit to fulfill its duties. When one of the White House staff mentioned the 25th Amendment to him recently, the president said, “What’s that?” He seems equally unaware of the First Amendment, having said it is disgusting that the press can say anything they want and that this must be looked into. Does this frighten you?
—Alex Hoffman, 49 Maple St., Apt. 113, Manchester Center, VT 05255; (802) 362-2486; twinksalex@comcast.net