Class Note 1958
Issue
Sign up soon for the October 29-31 fall mini-reunion and Harvard game. Frank Gould has lined up super new accommodations upriver at Breakfast on the Connecticut (603-353-4444) and Dowd’s Country Inn (603-795-4712). Breakfast on the Connecticut is holding ’58 rooms until September 15, Dowd’s until September 1. Saturday’s class dinner at Breakfast on the Connecticut should be real treat—given its “sterling culinary reputation and spectacular setting.” Send reservation forms to Andy Thomas (55 Firestone Lane, Pinehurst, NC 28374) or phone (910) 215-5785.
Twenty-eight classmates attended the June 11 luncheon mini at the Norwich (Vermont) Inn, says Frank. Jack Gundy spoke movingly with photos about his 2010 and 1960 stays in Haiti—providing pediatric care after this year’s earthquake and as a resident physician 50 years ago. Undergrads Jim Doolin ’10 and Meghan Caughey ’11 described their work on Dartmouth Global Leadership Program projects in Honduras, Houston, Texas, and Hartford, Vermont. John Murphy presented his amusing 10-minute streaming video of hundreds of classmate photos, then and now. See Gersh Abraham’s full report on the class website. Joe Kabat sent photos—including one of Susan and Debbie Williamson, along with news they’re renovating the Lyme Inn, scene of earlier ’58 minis, for reopening in September. Joe’s recovering from surgery “to replace a heart valve with the pig’s valve.” He enjoyed a restful vacation in Bermuda with Sheila, who teaches at Hesser College in New Hampshire. Joe finished four years as president of River Institute for Senior Education in Nashua, New Hampshire, doubling enrollment, and resumes teaching this fall.
Personally distressing was news that my Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, boyhood pal Ted Harris died on May 21 at his son Chandler’s home in Thetford Center, Vermont. I cherish our latter day collaboration on the 50th reunion book after years residing on different coasts. His burial service was a private family ceremony in White Marsh, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. A memorial is planned for August in Palo Alto, California, where Ted, author of the standard rheumatology textbook, was chair of medicine at Stanford. As Terry Doran, also a Camp Hill classmate, put it: “Ted was remarkable.”
Art Lindenauer reported that Noel “Buz” Nathanson died at home in Great Neck, New York, on April 27. Buz practiced radiology in Brooklyn, where he’d grown up a staunch Dodgers fan, then taught at his alma mater, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Joel Portugal, who attended the funeral with Ted Kleinman and Art, says he was a loyal supporter of the College and that “Buzzy was laid to rest wearing both Dodgers and Dartmouth jerseys.” Joel himself is “out of the pain stage” of a hip replacement and “getting around with a walking stick, as my English grandchildren refer to the cane.”
Andy Thomas reported positive progress on the class of 1958 clock project after attending a June meeting of the Hanover selectmen. It’s to be located on Main Street in front of the Ledyard Bank, a prime spot. Final details have been worked out and approved by the class executive committee. Kudos to Andy for his enthusiasm and persistence in spearheading this project.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org
Sept - Oct 2010
Sign up soon for the October 29-31 fall mini-reunion and Harvard game. Frank Gould has lined up super new accommodations upriver at Breakfast on the Connecticut (603-353-4444) and Dowd’s Country Inn (603-795-4712). Breakfast on the Connecticut is holding ’58 rooms until September 15, Dowd’s until September 1. Saturday’s class dinner at Breakfast on the Connecticut should be real treat—given its “sterling culinary reputation and spectacular setting.” Send reservation forms to Andy Thomas (55 Firestone Lane, Pinehurst, NC 28374) or phone (910) 215-5785.
Twenty-eight classmates attended the June 11 luncheon mini at the Norwich (Vermont) Inn, says Frank. Jack Gundy spoke movingly with photos about his 2010 and 1960 stays in Haiti—providing pediatric care after this year’s earthquake and as a resident physician 50 years ago. Undergrads Jim Doolin ’10 and Meghan Caughey ’11 described their work on Dartmouth Global Leadership Program projects in Honduras, Houston, Texas, and Hartford, Vermont. John Murphy presented his amusing 10-minute streaming video of hundreds of classmate photos, then and now. See Gersh Abraham’s full report on the class website. Joe Kabat sent photos—including one of Susan and Debbie Williamson, along with news they’re renovating the Lyme Inn, scene of earlier ’58 minis, for reopening in September. Joe’s recovering from surgery “to replace a heart valve with the pig’s valve.” He enjoyed a restful vacation in Bermuda with Sheila, who teaches at Hesser College in New Hampshire. Joe finished four years as president of River Institute for Senior Education in Nashua, New Hampshire, doubling enrollment, and resumes teaching this fall.
Personally distressing was news that my Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, boyhood pal Ted Harris died on May 21 at his son Chandler’s home in Thetford Center, Vermont. I cherish our latter day collaboration on the 50th reunion book after years residing on different coasts. His burial service was a private family ceremony in White Marsh, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. A memorial is planned for August in Palo Alto, California, where Ted, author of the standard rheumatology textbook, was chair of medicine at Stanford. As Terry Doran, also a Camp Hill classmate, put it: “Ted was remarkable.”
Art Lindenauer reported that Noel “Buz” Nathanson died at home in Great Neck, New York, on April 27. Buz practiced radiology in Brooklyn, where he’d grown up a staunch Dodgers fan, then taught at his alma mater, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Joel Portugal, who attended the funeral with Ted Kleinman and Art, says he was a loyal supporter of the College and that “Buzzy was laid to rest wearing both Dodgers and Dartmouth jerseys.” Joel himself is “out of the pain stage” of a hip replacement and “getting around with a walking stick, as my English grandchildren refer to the cane.”
Andy Thomas reported positive progress on the class of 1958 clock project after attending a June meeting of the Hanover selectmen. It’s to be located on Main Street in front of the Ledyard Bank, a prime spot. Final details have been worked out and approved by the class executive committee. Kudos to Andy for his enthusiasm and persistence in spearheading this project.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org