Class Note 1958
Issue
Mar - Apr 2018
As our 60th reunion year dawns, and our girdled earth faces many challenges, we can take both pleasure and solace in reporting the latest attendance figures for our June 11 to 14 get-together in Hanover. Slated for the Monday through Thursday period following the hectic Commencement week, the reunion’s early-stage attendance figures look very promising indeed. In the latest conference call of our class officers and a dozen committee chairs convened by president John Trimble in mid-December, reunion co-chairs Gersh Abraham and Frank Gould reported the latest numbers. According to the attendance chief Dan O’Hara, no fewer than 70 classmates and 72 guests, or a total of 142, had indicated that they will attend the 60th, with 44 others saying they hope to be on hand in Hanover. That puts the attendance goal of 225 classmates and guests well within reach, with six months still to go.
If you are still sitting on the fence about attending, be advised that two equally enticing ancillary reunion events are also well along in the planning process. Prior to the reunion, there will be an overnight visit to the newly renovated Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in Warren, New Hampshire, for which you must make separate arrangements (apart from those for the reunion itself). Call (603) 764-5858 for details or contact the aforesaid class officers. According to Hanover-based Ralph Manuel, who attended last fall’s reopening of the Ravine Lodge after a year of reconstruction, the lodge is “beyond spectacular and well worth a visit.” Or words to that effect. Doubtless by then the Sound & Fury newsletter will have conveyed some photographic evidence to back up Ralph’s enthusiasm.
In addition, Admiral Hal Bernsen has stepped to the helm and taken command of organizing a post-reunion trip, something on the order of the memorable visit many of us made to the Trapp Family Lodge in northern Vermont after our 50th reunion in 2008. In making your reunion plans you will want to set aside a couple of extra days to enjoy that added opportunity, as Larry Weltin’s punchy reunion motto puts it, to “Relax! Reconnect! Reminisce!”
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Forest-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net
If you are still sitting on the fence about attending, be advised that two equally enticing ancillary reunion events are also well along in the planning process. Prior to the reunion, there will be an overnight visit to the newly renovated Moosilauke Ravine Lodge in Warren, New Hampshire, for which you must make separate arrangements (apart from those for the reunion itself). Call (603) 764-5858 for details or contact the aforesaid class officers. According to Hanover-based Ralph Manuel, who attended last fall’s reopening of the Ravine Lodge after a year of reconstruction, the lodge is “beyond spectacular and well worth a visit.” Or words to that effect. Doubtless by then the Sound & Fury newsletter will have conveyed some photographic evidence to back up Ralph’s enthusiasm.
In addition, Admiral Hal Bernsen has stepped to the helm and taken command of organizing a post-reunion trip, something on the order of the memorable visit many of us made to the Trapp Family Lodge in northern Vermont after our 50th reunion in 2008. In making your reunion plans you will want to set aside a couple of extra days to enjoy that added opportunity, as Larry Weltin’s punchy reunion motto puts it, to “Relax! Reconnect! Reminisce!”
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Forest-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net