Class Note 1958
Issue
November-December 2020
Much ado about nothing, sense and sensibility: Call it what you will, the dustup over the Baker weathervane finally brought forth much ado about sensibility from Hal Bernsen and Bob Downey, who wisely advised classmates to keep their cool and see what happens.
Missing this year is our usual Fall mini at Homecoming, a situation John Trimble and class officers and committee heads Sam Smith, Mike Simberkoff, Dave Bradley, Gersh Abraham, and Mel Alperin are working to ameliorate. In place of being locked out of Hanover, try dialing up the three-minute virtual campus drive-thru in the August 20 edition of the Dartmouth News Weekly at https://dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com/track/click or phone (603) 646-2258.
When you receive this column in October the presidential election will be only weeks away. You may recall that in 2016 the Sound & Fury newsletter ran a prexit poll, patterned after exit polls with lots of demographic and political questions designed to dope out the results beforehand. An amazing 150 or so ’58s participated, most using their names. I won’t embarrass anyone by divulging their data. But in case you don’t remember, the round numbers showed that in October 2016 two-thirds of the class leaned Republican, but two-thirds thought Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in. What did the prexit poll miss? It missed James Comey and her emails, for sure; overconfident Dems who stayed home, cutting turnout to 57 percent; plus the creaky Electoral College that negated her 3 million popular vote win.
As for recent classmate departures, we note those of John T. Blunt on July 18, Norm Sylvester on June 13, John Germani on June 24, William A. DeGraw on July 11,and Paul Wysard on date unknown. John Trimble has been doing yeoman duty with personal letters of condolence to surviving spouses and families.
Keep the emails coming! Love to see some new old names here next time. Guys are really interested in hearing about classmates, both known and unknown. Meantime I’m off to help my dear friend Woody Benson, who piloted B-17s in the Pacific when we were still in short pants, celebrate his 100th birthday.
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net
Missing this year is our usual Fall mini at Homecoming, a situation John Trimble and class officers and committee heads Sam Smith, Mike Simberkoff, Dave Bradley, Gersh Abraham, and Mel Alperin are working to ameliorate. In place of being locked out of Hanover, try dialing up the three-minute virtual campus drive-thru in the August 20 edition of the Dartmouth News Weekly at https://dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com/track/click or phone (603) 646-2258.
When you receive this column in October the presidential election will be only weeks away. You may recall that in 2016 the Sound & Fury newsletter ran a prexit poll, patterned after exit polls with lots of demographic and political questions designed to dope out the results beforehand. An amazing 150 or so ’58s participated, most using their names. I won’t embarrass anyone by divulging their data. But in case you don’t remember, the round numbers showed that in October 2016 two-thirds of the class leaned Republican, but two-thirds thought Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in. What did the prexit poll miss? It missed James Comey and her emails, for sure; overconfident Dems who stayed home, cutting turnout to 57 percent; plus the creaky Electoral College that negated her 3 million popular vote win.
As for recent classmate departures, we note those of John T. Blunt on July 18, Norm Sylvester on June 13, John Germani on June 24, William A. DeGraw on July 11,and Paul Wysard on date unknown. John Trimble has been doing yeoman duty with personal letters of condolence to surviving spouses and families.
Keep the emails coming! Love to see some new old names here next time. Guys are really interested in hearing about classmates, both known and unknown. Meantime I’m off to help my dear friend Woody Benson, who piloted B-17s in the Pacific when we were still in short pants, celebrate his 100th birthday.
—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net