Class Note 1957
Issue
March-April 2020
Let’s getto the news. Herb Roskind purchased a 26-foot pontoon boat on eBay and is studying for the Coast Guard exam that will allow him to conduct boat tours around Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Reynolds Guyer was featured in the latest issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine as an inventor speaking on the power of creativity. Best known for developing the game of Twister and the Nerf Ball, he is cofounder of Winsor Learning, which has trained 43,000 teachers to work with struggling readers. Steve Swayne, professor of music and directorof the Montgomery Fellows Program, has been elected president of the prestigious American Musicological Society. Montgomery invites distinguished luminaries to live, work, and teach at Dartmouth, luminaries such as Yo-Yo Ma, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, and our Chris Wren.
Class of ’57 writers Gary Gilson, Mike Lasser, Bruce Sloane, and Chris Wren have been mentioned in previous columns, but get this: Larry Selig has just published Discovering Your Spiritual DNA and is receiving outstanding reviews on Amazon. Chic Shaver’s Basic Bible Stories has been printed in 55 languages, including 75,000 copies in English, and Bob Creasy’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine, a bible in its field, is now in its seventh edition.
Classmates had fun discussing Ken Burns’ PBS country music series. Did you know that before he began his distinguished career at The New York Times, Chris Wren was a songwriter for Johnny Cash? Or that John Lange was the lead singer for a bluegrass band in Paris at a place called Kitty O’Shea’s, back when his day job was minister counselor to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development? Bob Copeland, Art Koff, David Keith,and Gary Gilson had fun exchanging favorite country song titles, but Mike Lasser silenced all with his confession that one night long ago, he sat drinking and writing country songs. Mike’s best title? “Will Love Replace Night Baseball in the Bleachers of Your Heart?” Gol’ dang, y’all, that’s good!
You’ve asked about our class presidents, the 13 loyal sons who have served five-year terms since our graduation in 1957. I’m working on it. Stay tuned.
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com
Class of ’57 writers Gary Gilson, Mike Lasser, Bruce Sloane, and Chris Wren have been mentioned in previous columns, but get this: Larry Selig has just published Discovering Your Spiritual DNA and is receiving outstanding reviews on Amazon. Chic Shaver’s Basic Bible Stories has been printed in 55 languages, including 75,000 copies in English, and Bob Creasy’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine, a bible in its field, is now in its seventh edition.
Classmates had fun discussing Ken Burns’ PBS country music series. Did you know that before he began his distinguished career at The New York Times, Chris Wren was a songwriter for Johnny Cash? Or that John Lange was the lead singer for a bluegrass band in Paris at a place called Kitty O’Shea’s, back when his day job was minister counselor to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development? Bob Copeland, Art Koff, David Keith,and Gary Gilson had fun exchanging favorite country song titles, but Mike Lasser silenced all with his confession that one night long ago, he sat drinking and writing country songs. Mike’s best title? “Will Love Replace Night Baseball in the Bleachers of Your Heart?” Gol’ dang, y’all, that’s good!
You’ve asked about our class presidents, the 13 loyal sons who have served five-year terms since our graduation in 1957. I’m working on it. Stay tuned.
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com