Class Note 1950
Issue
May-June 2020
This is your class secretary writing with an especially heavy heart at the loss of a giant of the “touch of class”: Jack Harned, past class president, lifelong genial host (with Jilly by his side), team manager during his college years, and all-around champion.
This is an especially tough month for us all, with 17 missing classmates (see my list at column’s end).
On a more upbeat note I submit the 2020 travel schedule of our trip tsar, prez Bob Kirby, and Brownlee McKee: March 13-29, skiing Colorado; July 7-24, Baltic cruise; October 30-November 1, the big 70th reunion (all expenses paid by the College); and December 7-17, Chile and Argentina for the solar eclipse! Speaking of the meet and greet in October-November, I have a nice note from Sandy McCulloch to Joe Medlicott alerting us to the fact that Sandy and Dotty (celebrating their 70th in June, followed by his 94th birthday in July) are planning on our 70th on the Hanover Plain. The man drives 12 miles to work every day at his office in Providence, Rhode Island, where he “jousts with the teachers’ union reluctant to change.”
John Weber and Shirley (his bride of 71 years) are planning on the big one, as is your class loudmouth and daughter Rebecca.
A nice note from our next-door class secretary, Pete Henderson ’51, about his very good pal Hugh Brower with sad but touching notes from Hugh’s wife, Jane, and one of his children.
Once again I am happy to forward to any classmates any materials (such as obits) on any deceased classmates here listed ( as well as those mentioned in the past): Clarence A. Beutel; Phillip H. Chase, Ph.D.; John T. Degraff Jr.; John F. Fallon; John A. Foster; George B. Harris III (one personal note: I still play the Paramount banjo I got from my good dear pal); Charles W. Lake; William D. Miliken; S. Donald Miner; Louis A. Narva; George R. Nugent; Capt. T.R. O’Neil (Navy retired); Harold C. Peters; Walter F. Schuette Jr.; Alan H. Teele (parent of a ’73, ’74, and ’78); Hugh Brower; and Jack Harned.
—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8 Concord Greene #5, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@aol.com
This is an especially tough month for us all, with 17 missing classmates (see my list at column’s end).
On a more upbeat note I submit the 2020 travel schedule of our trip tsar, prez Bob Kirby, and Brownlee McKee: March 13-29, skiing Colorado; July 7-24, Baltic cruise; October 30-November 1, the big 70th reunion (all expenses paid by the College); and December 7-17, Chile and Argentina for the solar eclipse! Speaking of the meet and greet in October-November, I have a nice note from Sandy McCulloch to Joe Medlicott alerting us to the fact that Sandy and Dotty (celebrating their 70th in June, followed by his 94th birthday in July) are planning on our 70th on the Hanover Plain. The man drives 12 miles to work every day at his office in Providence, Rhode Island, where he “jousts with the teachers’ union reluctant to change.”
John Weber and Shirley (his bride of 71 years) are planning on the big one, as is your class loudmouth and daughter Rebecca.
A nice note from our next-door class secretary, Pete Henderson ’51, about his very good pal Hugh Brower with sad but touching notes from Hugh’s wife, Jane, and one of his children.
Once again I am happy to forward to any classmates any materials (such as obits) on any deceased classmates here listed ( as well as those mentioned in the past): Clarence A. Beutel; Phillip H. Chase, Ph.D.; John T. Degraff Jr.; John F. Fallon; John A. Foster; George B. Harris III (one personal note: I still play the Paramount banjo I got from my good dear pal); Charles W. Lake; William D. Miliken; S. Donald Miner; Louis A. Narva; George R. Nugent; Capt. T.R. O’Neil (Navy retired); Harold C. Peters; Walter F. Schuette Jr.; Alan H. Teele (parent of a ’73, ’74, and ’78); Hugh Brower; and Jack Harned.
—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8 Concord Greene #5, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@aol.com