Department of Corrections: The February Sound & Fury article about the little-known Robert G. McGuire III 1958 Memorial Fund, established after his fatal 1975 auto accident, stated that Mick McGuire was a professor at Harvard. His widow, Georgianna, notes that Mick taught at Howard, not Harvard. She kindly provided additional details for the next S&F. 


There are few jobs Ralph Manuel has not manned in Hanover—from steam table worker at Thayer Hall to dean of the College. To them, we can now add alumni councilor. In February Ralph was elected as one of the three representatives allotted to post-55th reunion classes. He starts July 1.


Sadly, we note the deaths of four classmates since our last column, three of whom were accorded detailed obituaries in the February S&F. These are below.


Ben Cooper, an English professor and dedicated educator, former Psi Upsilon and Dragon member at the College, 32 years a teacher and cross country coach at the Kent Denver School, died more than a year ago, on February 8, 2014. 


George Haines, a career diplomat with postings to many European capitals and to China, Chad and the Caribbean, chief WDBS announcer and Gamma Delta Chi member in Hanover, died on January 22 in Falls Church, Virginia. 


Ken McCabe, construction manager-turned-financial broker dealer in the western United States and “a world-class storyteller,” according to fellow Kappa Kappa Kappa brother Harv Wilson, died on January 26 in Pueblo, Colorado.


Belated word of Andy Ansaldi’s death in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 5 comes via John Trimble, who, with Linda, ran into Andy’s sister, Dorothy, widow of classmate Joe Carter, in February in Florida. Andy, a Sigma Chi and president of the Newman Club in Hanover, was a Tuck-Thayer graduate who joined the construction company of his father, Andrew, in Manchester, Connecticut, eventually becoming CEO. Andy combined creative design instincts with engineering expertise to forge a reputation for the Andrew Ansaldi Co. as a master builder of top-quality custom homes and apartment complexes in the Hartford area. “No shortcuts, no skimping on details,” says one admirer. The label “Ansaldi Built” sells homes, say local realtors. 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net