Class Note 1951
Plans for our fall class mini-reunion (October 10-13) are taking shape! Our local hosts and super-arrangers, Amy and Henry Nachman, have a stimulating, fun weekend in store for us. A highlight: a private tour of the newly renovated and expanded Hood Museum of Art. Seven years of planning and three years of construction have produced a truly world-class teaching museum. Our late classmate Charlie Hood played a major role in re-imagining this centerpiece of Dartmouth’s remarkable arts complex.
We will reune on Homecoming Weekend. Activities will include the Dartmouth-Yale football game, a pre-game tailgate, the bonfire, and the annual parade of alumni. There will be interesting lectures, private dinners, and many opportunities to visit with classmates. Fall colors should be at their peak. Ink the weekend into your calendar now!
Frank and Sarah Johnson live in a retirement community in Phoenix. He has rediscovered his love of the stage, harking back to his days in experimental theater at Dartmouth, and is an active play-reader.
Herb Knight and I periodically get together for lunch at the pristine nature center of the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, near Chicago, to which he is a longtime contributor. The foundation’s mission: to secure the future of hunting, fishing, and land management (our lunches are often freshly caught). Herb, like Dick McFarland, is still an active duck hunter, “but not in the same blind! I can hear Dick claiming, “I shot that bird!’ ”
Like Herb, Buck Scott is a faithful connector with ’51 classmates. He took advantage of a recent California trip to drop in on Mish Cohen, whom he describes as “a valued friend who lives a quiet life in Beverly Hills but is still plugged into the intellectual life at the University of Southern California,” where he taught for many years.
Have you reached out to “a valued ’51 friend” lately? You’ll be glad you did!
We have lost four more classmates: Pete Crowe, Carl Glassberg, Stu Johnson, and Paul Wenger. The class sends sincere condolences to the families of these longtime friends.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com
