Class Note 1956
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
On July 12 Marsha and I attended a celebration of Mass in honor of Leo McKenna at Aquinas House in Hanover. The class of 1956 was well represented with other attendees, including Tom and Abbey Rosenwald, Tom and Sandra Harper, Linc Spaulding, Buddy and Rona Schattman, Doug and Ginger Keare and Stew Wood. Other Dartmouth notables included past president James Wright and class scholar Kesang Tashi ’70. Another notable in attendance included Bruce McLaughry, grandson of Tuss McLaughry, who was the Dartmouth football coach when we arrived in Hanover back in 1952. Following the hour-long Mass everyone was invited to a lovely luncheon served in the downstairs common room. At the conclusion of lunch a number of McKenna family members, including wife Christine, spoke lovingly about Leo. Friends who also spoke in honor of Leo included Rosenwald and Harper. The entire program was a fitting tribute to an important class member.
Now, the sounds of the Barbary Coast jazz band marching up Main Street signal further sadness with a report from the College of the passing of Frank Peck Strong Jr. and an email from Bill Sherman ’81 informing me that his father, Bill Sherman, passed while he and wife Gayle were vacationing in Ireland. All remaining class members bow their heads in silent tribute as the procession, including these classmates, marches around the Green.
On August 17 Marsha and I met with Phil and Sandra Hinkle at the Marina Restaurant in Burlington, Vermont. Food, drinks and an excellent discussion of current events as well as old times ensued. This get-together has become an annual event for the two couples and it is always most enjoyable.
Now, in honor of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and this column, I close with the final stanza of a six-stanza poem titled “DAM,” written in 1999.
Campus stories and old anecdotes,
Current views and a few recent quotes;
Local ads and obits,
Humor of Dartmouth wits,
And of course many DAM fine Class Notes.
—Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-3360; jash_125@comcast.net
Now, the sounds of the Barbary Coast jazz band marching up Main Street signal further sadness with a report from the College of the passing of Frank Peck Strong Jr. and an email from Bill Sherman ’81 informing me that his father, Bill Sherman, passed while he and wife Gayle were vacationing in Ireland. All remaining class members bow their heads in silent tribute as the procession, including these classmates, marches around the Green.
On August 17 Marsha and I met with Phil and Sandra Hinkle at the Marina Restaurant in Burlington, Vermont. Food, drinks and an excellent discussion of current events as well as old times ensued. This get-together has become an annual event for the two couples and it is always most enjoyable.
Now, in honor of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and this column, I close with the final stanza of a six-stanza poem titled “DAM,” written in 1999.
Campus stories and old anecdotes,
Current views and a few recent quotes;
Local ads and obits,
Humor of Dartmouth wits,
And of course many DAM fine Class Notes.
—Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-3360; jash_125@comcast.net