Classes & Obits

Class Note 1950

Issue

November-December 2023

Very sad news in that class giant Lee “Sak” Sarokin has left us after an injury he described in our last issue as “the bathroom floor came up and hit me!” (That’s Sak for sure.) He got a full half page in The New York Times June 25. Gentle reminder No. 3 for the mini-reunion October 20-21 (Columbia game). Jilly Harned’s grandsons’ fraternity graduation dinner and weekend featured 33 Cat in the Hat hats (nine of which were my loan). Tornado warnings and heat livened up an August family gathering for 57 (and a 17-year-old pooch) for Terri and Bill Carpenter, who are doing tomatoes and cukes in non-bending-over beds—and still hoping for a “major” ’50 reunion!

Joe Medlicott and “Toots” are doing the “Kendal Kick”—Joe is still working at his desk ready to teach his Osher course. We won’t have the gracious dinners at their manse, come our mini in October (as before), but Meredith and David Smith have promised us a get-together dinner on Saturday of our mini.

I’m not getting much support from my readers and notes of their doings, so I add some advice (once again) from my friend the Rabbit: “Be a good listener, eat plenty of greens, let your dreams multiply. Hop to it! Know when to be still, spend time in nature, don’t worry, be “hoppy.” (I need news!)

Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr229@gmail.com