Class Note 1957
Issue
Happy New Year, along with ever-current hopes for a healthy 2010. Please note: We’re now halfway to our 55th reunion.
Charles Tseckares, founding principal of CBT Architects in Boston, has received the Leventhal/Sidman Real Estate and Building Industry Award from the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley for “creating positive and lasting change in the community.”
Adam Block joined his geographer wife, Shelley Mastran, for what Adam calls the “annual meeting/extravaganza” of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground, which focuses on historic sites in Virginia’s Piedmont. Presentations included an exhibit of Civil War photographs, “all beautifully restored and some with extraordinary detail and clarity thanks to their huge glass negatives.” Also talks by two distinguished Civil War scholars, Drew Faust, president of Harvard, and Ed Ayers, president of Richmond University—she academic, Adam says, he charming and funny.
Another kind of story from the Piedmont, home of Bob Dennis, former CEO of the Piedmont Environmental Council, as well as large numbers of very large bears. One of them apparently paid Bob an unscheduled visit not too long ago. When the gate-crashing bear got through an open window—a major accomplishment in itself—Bob was “yelling at him, face to face, and I seem to remember walking next to him, and he went out the window. Then I realized my pajamas were all shredded and I had all these cuts and bruises on me.” No damage, fortunately, beyond the need for a few bandages and a visit to the local pajama factory.
When Herb and Laura Roskind ran into Tom and Alice Macy on Nantucket last summer Tom was suitably topped by his ’57 hat. As the newsletter reported last November, the Macys were there for a big-time family reunion.
An unsolicited e-mail from Val Armento ’73 reports that on a Dartmouth alumni cruise that retraced part of Odysseus’ journey around the Mediterranean, Ted and Sally Jennings read aloud to fellow passengers from Homer’s The Odyssey. Snopes.com has been unable to disprove the allegation that Ted tied himself to the mast as they passed the isle of the Sirens.
Gary Gilson had an especially busy November, combining teaching a course in “Politics, Ethics & Journalism” at Colorado College for the 15th straight year with jaunts to the Air Force Academy for a guest lecture and to Colorado Springs’ largest synagogue for his lecture on Jewish humor, “You Don’t Have to Be Jewish…But It Couldn’t Hurt!”
Nick Tschetter of Silverthorne, Colorado, is still working full time as a pediatrician even though he had six bypasses in 2000. He and three of his seven sons have a company that builds mainly houses and condos.
What Nick and his sons are up to lines up just about perfectly with Art Koff’s suggestion that retirees consider starting their own businesses rather than going back to work for another employer. Interested classmates can find guidance in the “Start your own business” section of Art’s Web site, www.retiredbrains.com.
—Michael Lasser, 164 New Wickham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526; rhythm2@frontiernet.net
Jan - Feb 2010
Happy New Year, along with ever-current hopes for a healthy 2010. Please note: We’re now halfway to our 55th reunion.
Charles Tseckares, founding principal of CBT Architects in Boston, has received the Leventhal/Sidman Real Estate and Building Industry Award from the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley for “creating positive and lasting change in the community.”
Adam Block joined his geographer wife, Shelley Mastran, for what Adam calls the “annual meeting/extravaganza” of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground, which focuses on historic sites in Virginia’s Piedmont. Presentations included an exhibit of Civil War photographs, “all beautifully restored and some with extraordinary detail and clarity thanks to their huge glass negatives.” Also talks by two distinguished Civil War scholars, Drew Faust, president of Harvard, and Ed Ayers, president of Richmond University—she academic, Adam says, he charming and funny.
Another kind of story from the Piedmont, home of Bob Dennis, former CEO of the Piedmont Environmental Council, as well as large numbers of very large bears. One of them apparently paid Bob an unscheduled visit not too long ago. When the gate-crashing bear got through an open window—a major accomplishment in itself—Bob was “yelling at him, face to face, and I seem to remember walking next to him, and he went out the window. Then I realized my pajamas were all shredded and I had all these cuts and bruises on me.” No damage, fortunately, beyond the need for a few bandages and a visit to the local pajama factory.
When Herb and Laura Roskind ran into Tom and Alice Macy on Nantucket last summer Tom was suitably topped by his ’57 hat. As the newsletter reported last November, the Macys were there for a big-time family reunion.
An unsolicited e-mail from Val Armento ’73 reports that on a Dartmouth alumni cruise that retraced part of Odysseus’ journey around the Mediterranean, Ted and Sally Jennings read aloud to fellow passengers from Homer’s The Odyssey. Snopes.com has been unable to disprove the allegation that Ted tied himself to the mast as they passed the isle of the Sirens.
Gary Gilson had an especially busy November, combining teaching a course in “Politics, Ethics & Journalism” at Colorado College for the 15th straight year with jaunts to the Air Force Academy for a guest lecture and to Colorado Springs’ largest synagogue for his lecture on Jewish humor, “You Don’t Have to Be Jewish…But It Couldn’t Hurt!”
Nick Tschetter of Silverthorne, Colorado, is still working full time as a pediatrician even though he had six bypasses in 2000. He and three of his seven sons have a company that builds mainly houses and condos.
What Nick and his sons are up to lines up just about perfectly with Art Koff’s suggestion that retirees consider starting their own businesses rather than going back to work for another employer. Interested classmates can find guidance in the “Start your own business” section of Art’s Web site, www.retiredbrains.com.
—Michael Lasser, 164 New Wickham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526; rhythm2@frontiernet.net