Sixty ’58s and spouses turned out for our October mini on Homecoming Weekend October 29-31. I can’t tell you how we fared against Harvard since my deadline for this column was two days before the game. But as I write, the resurgent Green is 4-2 on the season! 


Yet I think I can safely report in advance that we loved staying at Breakfast on the Connecticut in nearby Lyme, New Hampshire, and having a delicious Saturday night class dinner there. Arranger Frank Gould outdid himself. I can note also that many of us, along with curious students and townsfolk, paused on the way to Dave Bradley’s pre-football festivities to witness dedication of the Class of 1958 Clock on Main Street in front of Ledyard Bank. The only missing dignitary was Andy Thomas, who was unable to take a much-deserved bow for making the clock happen; he and Nathalie were touring the Middle East. There’s also a pretty good chance the Dartmouth band revved up the decibels as they marched past the clock to serenade us at Dave’s place. (Hope I won’t have to take back too much of this anticipatory reporting when the true facts are known!)


A note from Leslie Larson ’59 tells us that Walter Stackler won the senior golf championship on September 19 at the Creek Club in Locust Valley, New York. Anyone who’s played the difficult Creek Club can appreciate Walter’s achievement. Another non-classmate note, from Jim Francis ’57, brought condolences for basketball manger Ted Harris and two great photos of the 1956-57 basketball team, including fresh-faced ’58s Dave Carothers, Jim Crawford, Randy Austin, Henry Hof, John Jones and Hal Douglas.Separately, the aforesaid Hal wrote that he and Jeanine flew down from Portland, Oregon, in August to Stanford’s memorial for Ted. “Very impressive,” said Hal. I sent the photos to John Murphy for the Sound & Fury.


We will miss Joe Kabat who passed away on October 10, 2010, at a hospital near his home in Nashua, New Hampshire. A super-loyal classmate, Joe and wife Sheila greeted us at reunion registration desks. Just 10 days before he drove to Hanover to snap and send out first photos of the new 1958 clock. “Joe would have chuckled at the “10-10-10” exit plan,” wrote Sheila. She sent along details of his handwritten to-do list for the coming week—teaching photography to retirees, a Boy Scout event, tutoring citizenship candidates—“packed with living,” she said.


Mori Mitsui’s wife, Judy, tells me Mori died at the Tufts Medical Center in Boston on August 26 from heart issues and complications. Still working full-time as an architect, Mori lived in Kittery Point, Maine. Judy noted the ironic timing of an article by his brother, Takanobu ’43, in the November-December issue of the DAM about his campus experiences following the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. Belatedly, we’ve learned that Louis Dosik, a St. Petersburg, Florida, radiologist, died on February 1, 2010, of complications from knee surgery, and that James R. “Bob” Bickell of Clive, Iowa, died July 20, 2009. 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org