Class Note 1950
Issue
November-December 2024
A final note from president Bob Kirby on the mini-reunion October 4-6 with the usual dinner at the end of Tuck Drive on Friday night. Get your tickets for the Penn game on Saturday from him. Jilly Harned writes of a meaningful reunion—accompanied by son Peter ’85 and his wife, Amy ’85—at Squam Lake to say hello to Jack, who is buried there. Jilly says her youngest grandson is applying to Dartmouth and she hopes he gets in as she loves “to go back to Dartmouth Night on campus.” Grandson Jackson Battey ’23 was class valedictorian.
Terri Carpenter writes, “All quiet on the western front (Chicago).” Fall is definitely on its way in and she and Bill “Carp” are busy bringing in the last of the yield from their garden. Bill has really learned the fine points of producing a good crop! Joel Leavitt is still at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with three great-grandchildren to play with plus three grandkids in the mix. “My cup runneth over,” he says. Joel reports he and Veda are heading to the Berkshires to visit Florida pals and delight in Beethoven’s 9th, which is returning after a COVID hiatus. “See you in Hanover,” he says. I then got a sad call from Joel, who said Tony Gilroy had called to say his mother, Ruth, Frank Gilroy’s widow, passed away. She was a good friend and lovely lady.
Business note: The market value of the class of 1950 athletic fund was $24,126.64 on June 30, 2023.
I am having a great kick being a part of a well-weathered group in the Framingham-Natick, Massachusetts, area called The Golden Tones—30 mixed choristers, none under 70, who sing show tunes with accompaniment and enjoy very often performing for retirement communities and the like. I play a snare drum with brushes and accompany a keyboard. We do an hour-long program. This hearkens back to my college days, when I was percussionist for the Green Collegians (what a kick that was).
We, the class, regret the passing of Bob Farrell April 23 and George Woodwell.
—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369 5879; smileytmr229 @gmail.com
Terri Carpenter writes, “All quiet on the western front (Chicago).” Fall is definitely on its way in and she and Bill “Carp” are busy bringing in the last of the yield from their garden. Bill has really learned the fine points of producing a good crop! Joel Leavitt is still at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with three great-grandchildren to play with plus three grandkids in the mix. “My cup runneth over,” he says. Joel reports he and Veda are heading to the Berkshires to visit Florida pals and delight in Beethoven’s 9th, which is returning after a COVID hiatus. “See you in Hanover,” he says. I then got a sad call from Joel, who said Tony Gilroy had called to say his mother, Ruth, Frank Gilroy’s widow, passed away. She was a good friend and lovely lady.
Business note: The market value of the class of 1950 athletic fund was $24,126.64 on June 30, 2023.
I am having a great kick being a part of a well-weathered group in the Framingham-Natick, Massachusetts, area called The Golden Tones—30 mixed choristers, none under 70, who sing show tunes with accompaniment and enjoy very often performing for retirement communities and the like. I play a snare drum with brushes and accompany a keyboard. We do an hour-long program. This hearkens back to my college days, when I was percussionist for the Green Collegians (what a kick that was).
We, the class, regret the passing of Bob Farrell April 23 and George Woodwell.
—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369 5879; smileytmr229 @gmail.com