Class Note 1958
Issue
Sept - Oct 2015
On a gorgeous June 5 two dozen classmates and spouses enjoyed the annual class luncheon at the Norwich Inn served up by Frank Gould. One draw was a presentation by Dave Bradley and his football team mentee, Mike Langman ’17. Mike brought along a video of Buddy Teevens coaching his team. Their message: The green is an Ivy contender.
Another draw was the lively camaraderie. Besides the New Englanders present, outlanders Bob Downey and Sam Smith attended with spouses. Mark your calendar for the three-day mini-reunion during Homecoming October 9-11, another Frank Gould production. Yale will be the football opponent, followed by the class banquet at Breakfast on the Connecticut.
We’ve lost three classmates since the last DAM column.
Journalist E. Allen Soast died March 18 in Demarest, New Jersey. He was a writer and editor for McGraw-Hill’s weekly magazine Engineering News-Record, covering large-scale construction projects around the globe. Allen came to Hanover from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia on an NROTC scholarship and belonged to Alpha Theta.
Another Alpha Theta, Peter T. Hesbacher, died April 8 in Danville, Pennsylvania, from Alzheimer’s. His father was a public health service M.D. and Peter lived in 17 places in his first 18 years, including Burma and India. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and was a professor of sociology and psychiatry there. He also had a collection of more than 100,000 musical recordings and performed statistical analyses for Billboard magazine.
John H. “Jack” Gundy died at his home in Corinth, Vermont, May 26 of prostate cancer. Growing up in Rye, New York, playing clarinet became his passion. Schoolmates nicknamed him “Benny Goodman.” He played in the Marching Band at Dartmouth, joined Sigma Nu and earned his M.D. from Cornell Medical School, where he led a dance band from the piano. He specialized in pediatrics. His last sighting by many ’58s was marching with daughter Josie ’92 in the band that serenaded us in Bradley’s driveway in October 2013. Widow Sally and their family held a memorial service for Jack on August 16 in Bradford, Vermont.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net
Another draw was the lively camaraderie. Besides the New Englanders present, outlanders Bob Downey and Sam Smith attended with spouses. Mark your calendar for the three-day mini-reunion during Homecoming October 9-11, another Frank Gould production. Yale will be the football opponent, followed by the class banquet at Breakfast on the Connecticut.
We’ve lost three classmates since the last DAM column.
Journalist E. Allen Soast died March 18 in Demarest, New Jersey. He was a writer and editor for McGraw-Hill’s weekly magazine Engineering News-Record, covering large-scale construction projects around the globe. Allen came to Hanover from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia on an NROTC scholarship and belonged to Alpha Theta.
Another Alpha Theta, Peter T. Hesbacher, died April 8 in Danville, Pennsylvania, from Alzheimer’s. His father was a public health service M.D. and Peter lived in 17 places in his first 18 years, including Burma and India. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and was a professor of sociology and psychiatry there. He also had a collection of more than 100,000 musical recordings and performed statistical analyses for Billboard magazine.
John H. “Jack” Gundy died at his home in Corinth, Vermont, May 26 of prostate cancer. Growing up in Rye, New York, playing clarinet became his passion. Schoolmates nicknamed him “Benny Goodman.” He played in the Marching Band at Dartmouth, joined Sigma Nu and earned his M.D. from Cornell Medical School, where he led a dance band from the piano. He specialized in pediatrics. His last sighting by many ’58s was marching with daughter Josie ’92 in the band that serenaded us in Bradley’s driveway in October 2013. Widow Sally and their family held a memorial service for Jack on August 16 in Bradford, Vermont.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net