Class Note 1958
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Gotta love the class website photo of President Jim Kim with Gersh Abraham and Ralph Manuel in ’58 reunion windbreakers! Gersh says Kim attended a recent alumni event in Chicago wearing his ’58 reunion necktie. Though an ’82 adoptee (his class at Brown), Kim clearly agrees that “’58 is really great.”
Another website must-see: John Murphy’s latest Don Corleone impersonation titled “The Godfather at Keystone.” John catches Brando’s voice and gestures to perfection (my favorite is brushing his fingernails along his cheek). This rendition was filmed at Bob Downey’s annual ski week at Keystone, Colorado, in February. Scroll down Andy Thomas’ home page to view these and other gems.
June 30 is the deadline for this year’s Dartmouth College Fund. Head agent Jack Bennett’s troops are striving to keep ’58 one of the College’s most supportive classes. Also consider, if you can, Mel Alperin’s appeal to support the Bartlett Tower Society in your estate planning. Call Mel at (401) 274-6633 for details. And pencil in the October 29-30 mini-reunion in Hanover, The Harvard game is this year’s added attraction. Come on up, you mid-Atlantic and Tidewater guys. It’s a gorgeous drive that time of year.
Speaking of minis, mull over these findings from Norm Sylvester’s poll before he became our Alumni Council rep and turned over running minis to the triumvirate of Bob Eleveld, Frank Gould and Sam Smith. It drew 75 responses, roughly 15 percent of the class, half of whom never attended a mini. Travel’s no problem: 73 percent would journey 100 miles plus, 50 percent more than 200 miles, 16 percent across the country or an ocean. Where? Thirty-eight percent favor their home region, 18 percent their home state, 16 percent Europe, but 37 percent are not interested in multi-day or extended travel minis. Cocktail receptions are preferred by 82 percent, those built around educational or cultural programs favored by 65 percent. Cost-wise, 66 percent would spend $100 or more and 38 percent could handle $500 plus. Currently up for consideration: a 2011 mini at the College Grant. Bob, Frank and Sam welcome your input.
We sadly note the passing on February 22 of John McHugh, M.D., an internist who practiced many years in Holyoke, Massachusetts. A Theta Delt and Glee Clubber, John is remembered by Ward Burian for “his great, low-key sense of humor.” Walt Fogarty recalls him as “a very popular member of Theta Delt who married his college sweetheart Ann,” who died in 1989. John’s Boston Globe obit was nine yards long. His physician brother Edward is a ’54. Belatedly, we’ve learned that Charles C. Winchester, a patent attorney who was much involved the public schools of Milton, Massachusetts, died last October 21.
Judge Tom Jackson’s op-ed piece in the February 26 Washington Post made a strong case for trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in the Washington, D.C., federal district court (where he sat for 22 years) instead of New York or a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. Tom’s gist: The crimes were against the nation, not one city, and the targets were non-military.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org
July - Aug 2010
Gotta love the class website photo of President Jim Kim with Gersh Abraham and Ralph Manuel in ’58 reunion windbreakers! Gersh says Kim attended a recent alumni event in Chicago wearing his ’58 reunion necktie. Though an ’82 adoptee (his class at Brown), Kim clearly agrees that “’58 is really great.”
Another website must-see: John Murphy’s latest Don Corleone impersonation titled “The Godfather at Keystone.” John catches Brando’s voice and gestures to perfection (my favorite is brushing his fingernails along his cheek). This rendition was filmed at Bob Downey’s annual ski week at Keystone, Colorado, in February. Scroll down Andy Thomas’ home page to view these and other gems.
June 30 is the deadline for this year’s Dartmouth College Fund. Head agent Jack Bennett’s troops are striving to keep ’58 one of the College’s most supportive classes. Also consider, if you can, Mel Alperin’s appeal to support the Bartlett Tower Society in your estate planning. Call Mel at (401) 274-6633 for details. And pencil in the October 29-30 mini-reunion in Hanover, The Harvard game is this year’s added attraction. Come on up, you mid-Atlantic and Tidewater guys. It’s a gorgeous drive that time of year.
Speaking of minis, mull over these findings from Norm Sylvester’s poll before he became our Alumni Council rep and turned over running minis to the triumvirate of Bob Eleveld, Frank Gould and Sam Smith. It drew 75 responses, roughly 15 percent of the class, half of whom never attended a mini. Travel’s no problem: 73 percent would journey 100 miles plus, 50 percent more than 200 miles, 16 percent across the country or an ocean. Where? Thirty-eight percent favor their home region, 18 percent their home state, 16 percent Europe, but 37 percent are not interested in multi-day or extended travel minis. Cocktail receptions are preferred by 82 percent, those built around educational or cultural programs favored by 65 percent. Cost-wise, 66 percent would spend $100 or more and 38 percent could handle $500 plus. Currently up for consideration: a 2011 mini at the College Grant. Bob, Frank and Sam welcome your input.
We sadly note the passing on February 22 of John McHugh, M.D., an internist who practiced many years in Holyoke, Massachusetts. A Theta Delt and Glee Clubber, John is remembered by Ward Burian for “his great, low-key sense of humor.” Walt Fogarty recalls him as “a very popular member of Theta Delt who married his college sweetheart Ann,” who died in 1989. John’s Boston Globe obit was nine yards long. His physician brother Edward is a ’54. Belatedly, we’ve learned that Charles C. Winchester, a patent attorney who was much involved the public schools of Milton, Massachusetts, died last October 21.
Judge Tom Jackson’s op-ed piece in the February 26 Washington Post made a strong case for trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in the Washington, D.C., federal district court (where he sat for 22 years) instead of New York or a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. Tom’s gist: The crimes were against the nation, not one city, and the targets were non-military.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org