Class Note 1958
A rare delight of Covid-19 is the daily email by Coleman Colla from his Los Angeles home to classmates and friends (colemancolla@gmail.com). The following is a sampling. “Thursday, April 23: 7 a.m., sipping a cup of tea, looking out our front-room window, in 10 minutes only one car drove by. Friday, April 24: Weather forecast for today about 90; first time we have turned on the A/C this year. Sunday, April 26: We walk by John and Eileen’s place. They have a lovely sign in their window sending good wishes for Ramadan to all their Muslim friends. Tuesday, April 28: Our grocery order from Yummy.com arrives. Nadine thought she ordered three red potatoes, but what we got were three two-pound bags of red potatoes. Wednesday, April 29: We decide to take my 2005 Civic out for a spin to keep its battery charged. Auto traffic in our neighborhood is starting to pick up.” Coleman also reports that he’s finally had a letter to The New York Times published. To wit: “I appreciate your exhortation to younger Americans to get out and vote. Now the contest is reduced to two candidates and the choice is simple: Joe Biden or Donald Trump. If you have trouble deciding which of these is best, woe unto us.”
Hoyt Goodrich writes from Vero Beach, Florida: “A man called saying he had a letter sweater [lacrosse] with my name on it. Was he a classmate? No, he was considerably younger. But years ago he had a fling with an older woman and had found me through Dartmouth (not saying how). He and his wife were cleaning out a closet and there it was. He didn’t remember her last name but her first name was Dianne. I’ve been trying to remember a Dianne in my life back then, but there were so many—oh, don’t I wish! So this mystery remains unsolved, unless some classmate remembers Dianne. The sweater arrived and it does have my name in it, but for some reason it doesn’t fit!” Actually, it fits rather well, judging from the photo Hoyt sent.
We report the recent deaths of classmates Robert Rosenberg of New York City; Phillip McClanahan of Sea Ranch, California; Harvey Bloom of Portland, Oregon; and Brad Hubert of Beverly Hills, Michigan, of Covid-19.
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net
