Class Note 1958
The peripatetic Helga and Larry Hampton enjoyed a January sojourn on the French side of St. Martin (there’s a Dutch side too) amid lovely beaches and perfect Caribbean weather. He hopes his travelogue for an Algarve publication, appearing during cold, wet and windy weather back home in Portugal, didn’t “make our friends too jealous.” It did draw this retort from Andy Thomas, with a photo attached of foot-deep snow on his North Carolina deck: “Not a lot of golf being played in Pinehurst.” Andy’s healthy and shedding pounds, report Sigma Alpha Epsilon mates Larry Weltin and John Trimble. Did you notice John and Linda’s smiling faces in the January-February DAM as full-page poster people for the Bartlett Tower Society?
The Hamptons’ year-end greeting prior to visiting St. Martin noted the “examples of two giants, Nelson Mandela and Pope Francis, [encouraging hope] in a time of turmoil that the virtues they epitomize—charity, humility, intelligence, common sense, compromise, good will—will prevail.” Pete Kelsey, in his year-ender, reported that wife Wink had a retrospective of her 1956-2013 work in pen and ink, oils, acrylics and, in recent years, stone carving in a Lebanon, New Hampshire, gallery.
We note the passing of Richard D. Beards on December 20, 2013. Dick was a longtime English professor at Temple University, heading its master of liberal arts program from 1983 to 2000. He was well-known for his unique Oxford, Pennsylvania, shop, Bookplace, where on weekends, then full time, he sold used books, exhibited artists’ works and talked art with patrons—“a hub of the local arts scene,” reported his obit. He died unexpectedly while writing a book about Quaker abolitionist Lavinia Townsend.
Thomas E. Talley of Brockport, New York, died there on January 1. Tom grew up in Enid, Oklahoma, majored in English and Latin at Dartmouth, taught at Phillips Andover and in 1964 earned his M.D. from the University of Oklahoma. Trained in internal medicine and nephrology at the University of Rochester, he founded the self-care dialysis unit at nearby Highland Hospital, where he was medical director until 2000. Tom was a member of Sigma Chi and Sphinx.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net
