Class Note 1958
Issue
May-June 2020
Writing on Washington’s birthday in this election year calls to mind, with a sigh, the caliber of past leaders such as Dr. Franklin, His Excellency George, Honest Abe, and the Roosevelt boys. “A house divided cannot stand,” Abe warned exactly 100 years before we left Hanover, and he was right—then and now.
So what’s new from you? Our snowbird classmates in southwest Florida had their Bonita Springs annual dinner on March 10, with Sandy Bromwell of the Dartmouth College Fund as a special guest, says John Trimble—with a possible “surprise” guest. Maybe some disoriented Philadelphian lured south during his city’s snowless winter.
Two surviving spouses—Joe Jacquet’s Lynne and John Whiteley’s Kim—who’ve long kept in touch sent kind words about the Sound & Fury. A note of thanks also came from Bill Hartley’s Heather Mallinson of Melbourne, Florida, for our coverage of his parting, here and in the S&F. Baltimore-based Morton P. Fisher Jr. wrote that his middle name is Poe, a namesake quoted evermore in the S&F to the evident displeasure of Frank Gado, who reminded us that Herman Melville could write a whale of a lot better. But as pure poetry, Poe stuff is easier on the ears.
For something uneasier, Charlie Pierce suggests The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells. In reviewing Wallace-Wells’ unrelenting 228-pager, he called it “the most frightening book I ever read”—and a must-read.
A pleasant email exchange with Tryg Myhren recalled how on campus breaks we fellow Pennsylvanians dropped him at his boondocks hometown of Palmerton. “No one else from Palmerton ever went to Dartmouth,” he said. Tryg was a New York Times campus correspondent in those days. We also had a memory-refreshing catchup chat with Pete Flowers from Lebanon, the home of Pennsylvania’s famed bologna. Retired physician Pete and Ann now live in nearby Palmyra (she hailing from the same tiny town of Camp Hill as Ted Harris, Terry Doran, George Salkeld, and me).
In memoriam: Mike Bzullack notes the December 16 passing of Jack Conklin, a member of the large Torrington, Connecticut, delegation of ’58s; several guys sent clips of The New York Times of December 17 obit of Don Shagrin,a longtime class officer; and Phil Ranney of Cleveland left us on Christmas Day.
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net
So what’s new from you? Our snowbird classmates in southwest Florida had their Bonita Springs annual dinner on March 10, with Sandy Bromwell of the Dartmouth College Fund as a special guest, says John Trimble—with a possible “surprise” guest. Maybe some disoriented Philadelphian lured south during his city’s snowless winter.
Two surviving spouses—Joe Jacquet’s Lynne and John Whiteley’s Kim—who’ve long kept in touch sent kind words about the Sound & Fury. A note of thanks also came from Bill Hartley’s Heather Mallinson of Melbourne, Florida, for our coverage of his parting, here and in the S&F. Baltimore-based Morton P. Fisher Jr. wrote that his middle name is Poe, a namesake quoted evermore in the S&F to the evident displeasure of Frank Gado, who reminded us that Herman Melville could write a whale of a lot better. But as pure poetry, Poe stuff is easier on the ears.
For something uneasier, Charlie Pierce suggests The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells. In reviewing Wallace-Wells’ unrelenting 228-pager, he called it “the most frightening book I ever read”—and a must-read.
A pleasant email exchange with Tryg Myhren recalled how on campus breaks we fellow Pennsylvanians dropped him at his boondocks hometown of Palmerton. “No one else from Palmerton ever went to Dartmouth,” he said. Tryg was a New York Times campus correspondent in those days. We also had a memory-refreshing catchup chat with Pete Flowers from Lebanon, the home of Pennsylvania’s famed bologna. Retired physician Pete and Ann now live in nearby Palmyra (she hailing from the same tiny town of Camp Hill as Ted Harris, Terry Doran, George Salkeld, and me).
In memoriam: Mike Bzullack notes the December 16 passing of Jack Conklin, a member of the large Torrington, Connecticut, delegation of ’58s; several guys sent clips of The New York Times of December 17 obit of Don Shagrin,a longtime class officer; and Phil Ranney of Cleveland left us on Christmas Day.
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net