Class Note 1956
Issue
January-February 2023
Ladies and gentlemen of 1956, having been brought up from age 6 by a widowed mother and a widowed grandmother, having married Beth 64 years ago, and having a daughter, a granddaughter, and female friends, I enthusiastically welcome aboard Sian Leah Beilock with deep respect and appreciation! A talented woman minding the helm, which leads us into our lineage theme for 2023. Expanding on John Cusick’s excellent 1957 Class Notes, “We are all cousins, baby!” But more about me: Ancestors Whitneys and Everetts landed in Massachusetts in 1635 from the United Kingdom and moved to Vermont and upstate New York. Great-grandfather Bartholomew Crowley came from County Cork in 1860, through Canada, marrying Mary Cameron, a Canadian Scot, and dairy farming on the New York-Canada border. Great-grandfather Karl Feichtinger moved from Austria to Fremont, Nebraska, in 1870, tin smithing for a Germanic farming community. His daughter, Bertha, met my grandfather, A.J. Crowley, at the Chicago World’s Fair. They married and went to White Plains, New York. So much for “Go West, young man!” How about you guys—where from and what done?
Ben Taylor checks in from Santa Rosa, California, where he’s rehabbing from back surgery. He has fond fishing memories, was a big game angler, and has New England roots (grandfather founded Union Carbide)!
Doc Eric Jensen’s Danish lineage enhanced the phrase, “ikke nu men lige hella nu” (not now, but right the hell now), when young Eric lagged and doddered.
Rick Worrell, a direct descendant of Rhode Island’s Roger Williams, recalls his Eastern Shore Chesapeake Bay grandfather of Sam Houston lineage leaving for the West, having been “on the outboard edges of polite Southern society and the law.” Go west, young man, indeed!
Co-president Jack Billhardt reminds us that when ascending a two-step stool at home, what goes up must come down! Chuck Woodhouse wonders if anyone has recollections of Dimitri von Mohrenschildt at Dartmouth (Russian literature)? Memories are sought for research. Bob McKay takes issue with the arrogance with which our beloved golf course was dismissed in the July-August DAM. Are we likewise “vestiges”? See you in “The Woods”—the Lone Pine will never die!
—J.W. Crowley, 15612 SE 42nd Place, Bellevue, WA 98006; (425) 746-1824; crowleyjack58@gmail.com
Ben Taylor checks in from Santa Rosa, California, where he’s rehabbing from back surgery. He has fond fishing memories, was a big game angler, and has New England roots (grandfather founded Union Carbide)!
Doc Eric Jensen’s Danish lineage enhanced the phrase, “ikke nu men lige hella nu” (not now, but right the hell now), when young Eric lagged and doddered.
Rick Worrell, a direct descendant of Rhode Island’s Roger Williams, recalls his Eastern Shore Chesapeake Bay grandfather of Sam Houston lineage leaving for the West, having been “on the outboard edges of polite Southern society and the law.” Go west, young man, indeed!
Co-president Jack Billhardt reminds us that when ascending a two-step stool at home, what goes up must come down! Chuck Woodhouse wonders if anyone has recollections of Dimitri von Mohrenschildt at Dartmouth (Russian literature)? Memories are sought for research. Bob McKay takes issue with the arrogance with which our beloved golf course was dismissed in the July-August DAM. Are we likewise “vestiges”? See you in “The Woods”—the Lone Pine will never die!
—J.W. Crowley, 15612 SE 42nd Place, Bellevue, WA 98006; (425) 746-1824; crowleyjack58@gmail.com