Class Note 1957
Issue
September-October 2023
Thanks to Bruce Bernstein, who started this when he asked that his ashes be scattered from the Fire Island Ferry into the Great South Bay. Last column we asked: “Where do you want to be?” Responses were wonderful and varied. Examples follow.
John Roberts from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said,“ in the vegetable garden, beside this house.” “Pope” Urban said, “I think more in terms of spirit, not place. I’m a Christian but admit I have not yet figured out the whole life-after-death concept. I’ll live on in my children.” Larry Selig said, “When you say, ‘It’s all over,’ that’s but the beginning of a new adventure for me. I’m thinking about an open door into an even greater eternal life in heaven,” comments to which Chic Shaver added a hearty endorsement and “Amen.”
Cremation allowed classmates to select locations special to them. Jay Greene said his ashes are to be scattered in two places: the Bohemian Grove “to be trod underfoot by the generations of Bohemians to come,” and San Francisco Bay “to be swept out into the broad Pacific.” Judy and Bob Creasy chose their beloved New Zealand, overlooking the Hinemaiaia River at a spot so beautiful Bob has named it “Judy’s Pool.”
Humor played a role, too. Jim Taylor purchased a small plot for family ashes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Wife Carole requested her ashes be divided between that plot and Cape Cod Bay. Jim complied but remembers the swimming test at Dartmouth and has chosen to keep his ashes dry. Laura and Herb Roskind have been given burial plots at the Vineyard Jewish Center where they summer. Herb’s keeping the Jewish tradition of laying stones atop their stone monument and has negotiated a location directly on the road through the cemetery. “A quick stone drop will suffice,” he says. “You won’t even have to get out of the car.”
Bob Marchant passed away while this column was being written, but his answer bears repeating and provides a fitting close to this column: “I’m looking forward to ’57 class reunions,” hesaid, “in the sky.”
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick @aol.com
John Roberts from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said,“ in the vegetable garden, beside this house.” “Pope” Urban said, “I think more in terms of spirit, not place. I’m a Christian but admit I have not yet figured out the whole life-after-death concept. I’ll live on in my children.” Larry Selig said, “When you say, ‘It’s all over,’ that’s but the beginning of a new adventure for me. I’m thinking about an open door into an even greater eternal life in heaven,” comments to which Chic Shaver added a hearty endorsement and “Amen.”
Cremation allowed classmates to select locations special to them. Jay Greene said his ashes are to be scattered in two places: the Bohemian Grove “to be trod underfoot by the generations of Bohemians to come,” and San Francisco Bay “to be swept out into the broad Pacific.” Judy and Bob Creasy chose their beloved New Zealand, overlooking the Hinemaiaia River at a spot so beautiful Bob has named it “Judy’s Pool.”
Humor played a role, too. Jim Taylor purchased a small plot for family ashes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Wife Carole requested her ashes be divided between that plot and Cape Cod Bay. Jim complied but remembers the swimming test at Dartmouth and has chosen to keep his ashes dry. Laura and Herb Roskind have been given burial plots at the Vineyard Jewish Center where they summer. Herb’s keeping the Jewish tradition of laying stones atop their stone monument and has negotiated a location directly on the road through the cemetery. “A quick stone drop will suffice,” he says. “You won’t even have to get out of the car.”
Bob Marchant passed away while this column was being written, but his answer bears repeating and provides a fitting close to this column: “I’m looking forward to ’57 class reunions,” hesaid, “in the sky.”
—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnwcusick @aol.com