Word came of the death of two classmates, Ken Wlaschin and George Tracy. Because of budget cuts at the College no obituaries will appear in DAM, but they will be featured on the new DAM Web site. Rather than being limited to 150 words it is now possible for the secretary to post a longer obituary and for classmates and friends to post their own remembrances via an online commenting feature. These classmates were extraordinary in their vocations. Ken served as the program director of the National Film Theater and the London Film Festival for 15 years, the longest tenure of anyone in that job to this day! He wrote or edited some 20 books, mostly on film or music subjects, and was decorated by the governments of France, Italy and Great Britain for his services to the cinema. George began a career in international banking in New York on Wall Street during which he felt called to the Roman Catholic priesthood. Monsignor Tracy served on the faculties of Boston College; the Jesuit Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri; Saint John’s University, New York City; Cambridge University, England; Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio; and Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary, Emmetsburg, Maryland.


Thanks to Roger Emerson I learned that last October Brown University renamed its former Frederick Fuller House Fiering House after our classmate Norman, “who greatly enhanced Brown’s fellowship program over his 23 years at the helm and conceived the idea of a residence.” Norm greatly “expanded the holdings of this remarkable library. He richly deserved this honor.”


Contributions over the years from members of the class of ’56 have enabled the College to provide scholarships in our name to two students a year. Last year’s sophomore scholar, Hillary Mimnaugh ’11, spent this past fall term as a student intern in the legal department of the California Housing Finance Agency, working on the Public Records Act, a state law giving people open access to government records. She created a training video about the act for state employees, writing the video transcript and creating the PowerPoint slides. Amanda Lee ’12, a class scholar from Great Neck, Long Island, is having a wonderfully packed junior year. A history major with a government modifier, she’s looking forward to a possible career in the Foreign Service after law school. Right now participation in the Tucker Foundation, the College symphony, the Hood Museum, her Kappa Delta sorority, the Taiwanese Association as its vice president, the Aegis as a photographer and the Mentors Against Violence program on the campus keep her hopping. John Biberman ’13, a freshman who was able to be with us at last fall’s Homecoming dinner, is equally engaged. An architecture student, he’s working to start a chapter of Architecture for Humanity on campus. John’s other extracurricular activities include being the publishing manager of the World Outlook Journal, which is published once each term, and continuing his violin study, which began in the fifth grade. He’s studying French in the hope of a summer internship in Tanzania. Wow!


—R. Stewart Wood Jr., P.O. Box 968, Quechee, VT 05059-0968; (802) 295-8912; stewwood@aol.com