Class Note 1958
One Saturday in April, a week ago as I write, yours truly watched the Big Green women’s lacrosse team come from down 2-6 to upset the favored Penn Quakers 15-10 at nearby Franklin Field in Philadelphia. (They beat Yale 23-9 for a share of the Ivy title April 29.) Nice to see Ivy sports for a change.
Spring also brought some ’58 mini-reunions. John Trimble sent word of the annual southwest Florida winter mini by 19 classmates and spouses at the Bonita Bay Club in Bonita Springs on March 12. Adopted classmate Sandy Bromwell from the alumni office was on hand to lead attendees in a rousing singing of “Happy 250th Birthday” to the College.
Walt Vail reported the six-person mini-mini he and his wife, Scottie, enjoyed with Patsy and Don McCree and Lucy and Walt Stackler. Look for a photo of their get-together in the next Sound & Fury newsletter, along with a bushel of pix Linda Trimble took at the southwest Florida wingding.
There are two obituaries to report. August VanDessel Jr. of Arlington, Virginia, succumbed to Parkinson’s disease at Northern Virginia Hospital on January 13. Augie was born to immigrant parents in Bloomfield, New Jersey, dropped out of Dartmouth in 1955 to join the U.S. Air Force, and earned a B.A. in accounting at Duke University. He remained active in Dartmouth alumni affairs. He worked for the National Park Service, then the U.S. State Department, and was an avid watch and clock collector.
Donald Wood Mansfield of Florham Park, New Jersey, died on January 24. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and lived for many years in Great River, New York, before relocating to New Jersey four years ago with his wife, Pamela, who survives him. A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon in Hanover, he majored in English and earned a double degree in language and theology at Hofstra University after a tour of duty in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. Known as a natural-born language teacher, at both high school and college levels, his hobbies were collecting antique cars and trucks and flying planes, including a lightweight aircraft Donald and his brother-in-law designed and built.
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net
