Class Note 1950
Issue
May-June 2021
Some news of passing import: Our prez, Bob Kirby, has scheduled a mini for Homecoming Weekend, October 8-9 (Yale game). Let’s hope the Covid craziness will permit same.
I got a great picture of Bob “Killy” Kilmarx recently from himself, now posted on the wall near my desk. I’ve been getting some comic emails from Kirby. It appears that Bob and Brownlee are (or were?) planning a 10-day Baltic cruise trip to take in Copenhagen, Poland, Lithuania, Finland, and “three days in St. Petersburg” for August and were planning a “ski thing” in the Colorado area for end of March (must mean 2022!). Another good communicator, Terri Carpenter, notes a foot of snow and minus-30 temps for what seems days unending. I also received a sad note regarding the passing of Lincoln, their rescue pooch of 14 years (to which your scribe can relate: I lost my beloved Ruffy, a shih tzu of 17 years who slept with me every night, in December).
“Jocular” Joel Leavitt, our class baby, writes complaining of my esoteric culpability and comments on what seems great health with tennis three times a week and golf “to boot.” He hopes to make Cape Cod, Massachusetts, this summer and remarks that he and Veda (DeKof) are facetiming great-grandparents at last! Joel is doing his memoir (in same remarking that he beat me in tennis way back when—no way, Jose!). Joel and Veda have gotten their first shots (seems to be a conversational comment for many of us). Another proficient contributor is Lee “Sak” Sarokin, very much with it out in California. Besides sending me great video clips of Blazing Banjos, he is embarking (“knee deep”) on a second career, having written nine plays and keeping current with things judicial with articles in The San Diego Union-Tribune tackling such issues as immigration, free speech, etc. His initial fame was when he freed former middleweight boxer, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, from 19 years of prison in 1985 for a triple murder he did not commit. The man is a 90-year-old dynamo!
And now the sad usual litany of comrades in arms who have passed: Richard J. Best, M.D., Donald J. Meeneen, and Navy Cmdr. (retired) Frederick K. Rubins.
I can be reached via the contact info below; preferably by email.
—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@aol.com
I got a great picture of Bob “Killy” Kilmarx recently from himself, now posted on the wall near my desk. I’ve been getting some comic emails from Kirby. It appears that Bob and Brownlee are (or were?) planning a 10-day Baltic cruise trip to take in Copenhagen, Poland, Lithuania, Finland, and “three days in St. Petersburg” for August and were planning a “ski thing” in the Colorado area for end of March (must mean 2022!). Another good communicator, Terri Carpenter, notes a foot of snow and minus-30 temps for what seems days unending. I also received a sad note regarding the passing of Lincoln, their rescue pooch of 14 years (to which your scribe can relate: I lost my beloved Ruffy, a shih tzu of 17 years who slept with me every night, in December).
“Jocular” Joel Leavitt, our class baby, writes complaining of my esoteric culpability and comments on what seems great health with tennis three times a week and golf “to boot.” He hopes to make Cape Cod, Massachusetts, this summer and remarks that he and Veda (DeKof) are facetiming great-grandparents at last! Joel is doing his memoir (in same remarking that he beat me in tennis way back when—no way, Jose!). Joel and Veda have gotten their first shots (seems to be a conversational comment for many of us). Another proficient contributor is Lee “Sak” Sarokin, very much with it out in California. Besides sending me great video clips of Blazing Banjos, he is embarking (“knee deep”) on a second career, having written nine plays and keeping current with things judicial with articles in The San Diego Union-Tribune tackling such issues as immigration, free speech, etc. His initial fame was when he freed former middleweight boxer, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, from 19 years of prison in 1985 for a triple murder he did not commit. The man is a 90-year-old dynamo!
And now the sad usual litany of comrades in arms who have passed: Richard J. Best, M.D., Donald J. Meeneen, and Navy Cmdr. (retired) Frederick K. Rubins.
I can be reached via the contact info below; preferably by email.
—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@aol.com