Class Note 1958
Issue
Jul - Aug 2016
By way of the grapevine, we’ve learned that Ralph Manuel celebrated his 80th in his favorite way—watching his beloved Detroit Tigers play the Orioles in Baltimore hosted by his four sons. Ralph grew up in nearby Brunswick, Maryland.
John Sherwood, a Baltimore native who lives in nearby Annapolis, has continued his winning ways as a sailboat racer (begun in Hanover as All New England on the sailing team) and is a volunteer coach of the naval academy’s varsity offshore sailing team.
We note the passing of two classmates—William N. Kirchner of Chattanooga, Tennessee, on February 21, and David H. “Doc” Rice of Brooklin, Maine, on March 14 after a short illness.
Bill Kirchner entered Dartmouth with us in the fall of 1954, but graduated in 1961. We hope his widow, Linda, can fill in the many missing blanks about his life before the next Sound & Fury (S&F) newsletter appears. We do know that he grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon. We also know that he lived many years in Chattanooga with Linda, his second wife, but nothing of what he did there. He is survived by two children from his first marriage. We’re “all ears” to anyone who can tell us more about Bill Kirchner.
Doc Rice is a different matter: We know almost too much about his illustrious and productive life. The short take is that he came to Dartmouth from Deerfield Academy, majored in art and architecture and was All-America captain of the lacrosse team. After Navy officer candidate school he rose to lieutenant commander. After earning a master’s in urban planning at the University of North Carolina, he spent his career in Norfolk, Virginia, heading the redevelopment authority, bringing, by one laudatory account, “downtown and surrounding neighborhoods back to life.” On retirement to Maine in 2001 he took up the fine art of wooden boat building, won renown for his landscape paintings and founded a nonprofit organization that uses boatbuilding to help disadvantaged youth in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area. More to come about Doc in the next S&F.
—Steve Quickel, Lima Estates, 411 North Middletown Road, F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net
John Sherwood, a Baltimore native who lives in nearby Annapolis, has continued his winning ways as a sailboat racer (begun in Hanover as All New England on the sailing team) and is a volunteer coach of the naval academy’s varsity offshore sailing team.
We note the passing of two classmates—William N. Kirchner of Chattanooga, Tennessee, on February 21, and David H. “Doc” Rice of Brooklin, Maine, on March 14 after a short illness.
Bill Kirchner entered Dartmouth with us in the fall of 1954, but graduated in 1961. We hope his widow, Linda, can fill in the many missing blanks about his life before the next Sound & Fury (S&F) newsletter appears. We do know that he grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon. We also know that he lived many years in Chattanooga with Linda, his second wife, but nothing of what he did there. He is survived by two children from his first marriage. We’re “all ears” to anyone who can tell us more about Bill Kirchner.
Doc Rice is a different matter: We know almost too much about his illustrious and productive life. The short take is that he came to Dartmouth from Deerfield Academy, majored in art and architecture and was All-America captain of the lacrosse team. After Navy officer candidate school he rose to lieutenant commander. After earning a master’s in urban planning at the University of North Carolina, he spent his career in Norfolk, Virginia, heading the redevelopment authority, bringing, by one laudatory account, “downtown and surrounding neighborhoods back to life.” On retirement to Maine in 2001 he took up the fine art of wooden boat building, won renown for his landscape paintings and founded a nonprofit organization that uses boatbuilding to help disadvantaged youth in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area. More to come about Doc in the next S&F.
—Steve Quickel, Lima Estates, 411 North Middletown Road, F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net