Class Note 1958
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
The last Class Notes column was written October 26, just before more than 50 of us convened for our autumn Homecoming mini-reunion. You’ll receive this column, written New Year’s week 2016, in the alumni magazine delivered in late February. If some of the news is four to six months old, blame DAM’s ill-timed deadlines.
Homecoming weather in October was like February: very cold and very wet. (Yours truly encountered four inches of snow when I stayed overnight in Saratoga Springs, New York, on the way to Hanover!) Many folks skipped the rain-drenched Harvard game, which we lost by only two points. But we had a great time anyway, thanks to the efforts of principal arrangers Frank Gould and Dave Bradley. The class meeting on Saturday was better attended than previous Friday sessions, though it began late when some classmates were steered to the wrong room. Treasurer Jack Bennett chaired in veep Norm Sylvestor’s absence when prez John Trimble was unavoidably detained. It included a thank-you appearance by Mychaela Anderson ’20 from Oahu, Hawaii, the first recipient from the class of 1958 scholarship fund. Saturday’s banquet, with ’58s and ’57s taking over both Lyme Inn dining rooms, was boisterous and punctuated by much class mingling. Faraway travelers included Tryg Mhyren from Denver and Skip Coggin and Jerry Manne from Chicago-land.
There were two recent lifetime achievement award winners: Bob Eleveld, for service to “justice” by the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Bar Association, and Mel Alperin, who was named to the Pawtucket (Rhode Island) Hall of Fame for “helping to advance and grow the city in a variety of ways.”
Atop everyone’s list of 2016’s best books is The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, son of Archie Whitehead, and a 16-week New York Times bestseller as we write. It’s a “hard-to-put-down” novel about a runaway slave girl’s perilous journey from a horrific Georgia plantation on a network envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. Don’t miss it!
Lou Vallone of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, died October 28. A Deke who was active in the DOC, Lou went to Boston University Law and practiced privately. Father of five, he was an avid fly fisherman.
—Steve Quickel, Lima Estates, 411 North Middletown Road, F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net
Homecoming weather in October was like February: very cold and very wet. (Yours truly encountered four inches of snow when I stayed overnight in Saratoga Springs, New York, on the way to Hanover!) Many folks skipped the rain-drenched Harvard game, which we lost by only two points. But we had a great time anyway, thanks to the efforts of principal arrangers Frank Gould and Dave Bradley. The class meeting on Saturday was better attended than previous Friday sessions, though it began late when some classmates were steered to the wrong room. Treasurer Jack Bennett chaired in veep Norm Sylvestor’s absence when prez John Trimble was unavoidably detained. It included a thank-you appearance by Mychaela Anderson ’20 from Oahu, Hawaii, the first recipient from the class of 1958 scholarship fund. Saturday’s banquet, with ’58s and ’57s taking over both Lyme Inn dining rooms, was boisterous and punctuated by much class mingling. Faraway travelers included Tryg Mhyren from Denver and Skip Coggin and Jerry Manne from Chicago-land.
There were two recent lifetime achievement award winners: Bob Eleveld, for service to “justice” by the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Bar Association, and Mel Alperin, who was named to the Pawtucket (Rhode Island) Hall of Fame for “helping to advance and grow the city in a variety of ways.”
Atop everyone’s list of 2016’s best books is The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, son of Archie Whitehead, and a 16-week New York Times bestseller as we write. It’s a “hard-to-put-down” novel about a runaway slave girl’s perilous journey from a horrific Georgia plantation on a network envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. Don’t miss it!
Lou Vallone of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, died October 28. A Deke who was active in the DOC, Lou went to Boston University Law and practiced privately. Father of five, he was an avid fly fisherman.
—Steve Quickel, Lima Estates, 411 North Middletown Road, F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net