Class Note 1957
Issue
March-April 2023
A hearty welcome to classmates joining our class listserv: Bill Breer, Walt Burgin, Bill Davidow, Eric Lee, John Roberts, and Calvin Towle.It’s a fun way to get together with classmates, wives, and widows and reminisce or just to stay in touch with what’s going on in the world and our lives.
I’ve a selfish motive: I search the listserv for subjects to include in this column. A recent example is Rod Hinkle’s whimsical plea to have the state deliver a weekly ice cream cone to seniors more than 80 years old. The idea gained immediate and equally whimsical approval from Bob Adelizzi and reminded Gary Gilson of his visits to the Hanover ice cream store down past the Nugget, where he once saw the “criminally gorgeous” wife of Professor Finch.
That prompted Jay Greene to remember sophomore year playing Hotspur in Henry the Fourth, where he, fellow actors Prince Hal, the King, and Dolly Tearsheet (Professor Finch’s lovely wife) stayed up all night talking at the Finches’ Vermont farm after closing the last show. Dawn approaching, the four saddled up and rode off into moonlight and a rising sun. That reminded John Lange of his 21st birthday, when he borrowed a horse from Professor Rosenstock-Huessy, rode past the President’s House, and galloped across the Green and over to the Zeta Psi house, where he stabled the horse in the library. “The horse took it very well,” he said. “The library rugs did not.”
This led Herb Roskind to recount his three years living in the Rosenstock-Huessys’ guest house. He regretted missing a more normal campus life, but treasured conversations with the good professor. “I also rode his horses,” he mused, “and remember a special time with the master himself on a deep snowy day.”
From ice cream cones as a senior benefit, to Shakespeare, a criminally gorgeous professor’s wife, midnight horseback rides, a 21st birthday adventure, ending with intimate memories of the great Professor Rosenstock-Huessy—I hope you’ll agree that’s the stuff of a fun Class Notes column.
Hope to see you again on the listserv!
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com
I’ve a selfish motive: I search the listserv for subjects to include in this column. A recent example is Rod Hinkle’s whimsical plea to have the state deliver a weekly ice cream cone to seniors more than 80 years old. The idea gained immediate and equally whimsical approval from Bob Adelizzi and reminded Gary Gilson of his visits to the Hanover ice cream store down past the Nugget, where he once saw the “criminally gorgeous” wife of Professor Finch.
That prompted Jay Greene to remember sophomore year playing Hotspur in Henry the Fourth, where he, fellow actors Prince Hal, the King, and Dolly Tearsheet (Professor Finch’s lovely wife) stayed up all night talking at the Finches’ Vermont farm after closing the last show. Dawn approaching, the four saddled up and rode off into moonlight and a rising sun. That reminded John Lange of his 21st birthday, when he borrowed a horse from Professor Rosenstock-Huessy, rode past the President’s House, and galloped across the Green and over to the Zeta Psi house, where he stabled the horse in the library. “The horse took it very well,” he said. “The library rugs did not.”
This led Herb Roskind to recount his three years living in the Rosenstock-Huessys’ guest house. He regretted missing a more normal campus life, but treasured conversations with the good professor. “I also rode his horses,” he mused, “and remember a special time with the master himself on a deep snowy day.”
From ice cream cones as a senior benefit, to Shakespeare, a criminally gorgeous professor’s wife, midnight horseback rides, a 21st birthday adventure, ending with intimate memories of the great Professor Rosenstock-Huessy—I hope you’ll agree that’s the stuff of a fun Class Notes column.
Hope to see you again on the listserv!
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick@aol.com