Class Note 1958
Issue
January-February 2023
In the absence of an outpouring of class-specific news, I’ll correct misinformation provided earlier this year and speak to the class of 1958 65th reunion. Two months ago we published dates provided by alumni relations that now turn out to be wrong. So please note that the correct dates are September 10, 11, 12.
Some may have made reservations based on the earlier news and those should be revisited. However, there is exciting news on that front. Hal Bernsen has agreed to chair the reunion and has enlisted Frank Gould to be his primary sidekick. Planning is well under way and we have used the experience of ’57 to help frame our approach. In addition, Bob Downey and Walter Vail have agreed to co-chair the reunion giving committee to pursue the Dartmouth College Fund goals approved at the class meeting in early October of $500,000 and 50-percent participation. Both believe based on past class performance that we should bust through that number and break the standing 65th record of $558,000! The class had chosen to hold its fall mini-reunion before the frost chilled the pumpkin and we were rewarded with a spectacular early October weekend and wonderful attendance enhanced by the reappearance of Cack Bitner and Rob Goodell, long absent from these annual festivities.
Rob has sent me a fascinating email: “A magazine reporter contacted me this week asking about Bill Friedman, who disappeared without a trace in May of our freshman year. Bill was in Gile, as was I, so the reporter interviewed me for a story he’s doing on the incident.” Rob and I would love to have feedback if anyone knows anything. Rob continues to produce beautifully written memorials for classmates who die and they can be found at DAM online.
Joel Portugal emailed that he is very much looking forward to the 65th in September.
Joel Potash wrote he received awards from Le Moyne College for Board Member of the Year and the Dorothy Reister Award from Stone Quarry Art Park in Cazenovia, New York.
—John Trimble, 2735 Golfside Court, Naples, FL 34110; jtrim99@comcast.net
Some may have made reservations based on the earlier news and those should be revisited. However, there is exciting news on that front. Hal Bernsen has agreed to chair the reunion and has enlisted Frank Gould to be his primary sidekick. Planning is well under way and we have used the experience of ’57 to help frame our approach. In addition, Bob Downey and Walter Vail have agreed to co-chair the reunion giving committee to pursue the Dartmouth College Fund goals approved at the class meeting in early October of $500,000 and 50-percent participation. Both believe based on past class performance that we should bust through that number and break the standing 65th record of $558,000! The class had chosen to hold its fall mini-reunion before the frost chilled the pumpkin and we were rewarded with a spectacular early October weekend and wonderful attendance enhanced by the reappearance of Cack Bitner and Rob Goodell, long absent from these annual festivities.
Rob has sent me a fascinating email: “A magazine reporter contacted me this week asking about Bill Friedman, who disappeared without a trace in May of our freshman year. Bill was in Gile, as was I, so the reporter interviewed me for a story he’s doing on the incident.” Rob and I would love to have feedback if anyone knows anything. Rob continues to produce beautifully written memorials for classmates who die and they can be found at DAM online.
Joel Portugal emailed that he is very much looking forward to the 65th in September.
Joel Potash wrote he received awards from Le Moyne College for Board Member of the Year and the Dorothy Reister Award from Stone Quarry Art Park in Cazenovia, New York.
—John Trimble, 2735 Golfside Court, Naples, FL 34110; jtrim99@comcast.net