Class Note 1959
Issue
As your new secretary I have large shoes to fill, as Paul Stein did a fabulous job over the past five years. The creativity and scope of his Class Notes will be hard to match. He has been very helpful in guiding me through the process to my first set of notes. Thanks, Paul!
Those of us fortunate enough to attend the 50th reunion had a great time catching up with classmates. Of course a number of 1959s had conflicts that prevented them from attending. They wished to join us but could not. The following covers some of them:
Bob Liberman writes that his UCLA team of experts in psychiatric rehabilitation have trained more than 150 clinicians of the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut, in the use of social skills training modules developed and validated by Bob during the past two decades. Bob’s programs for psychiatric rehabilitation have been translated into 23 languages and are used on all continents.
Don Gilden, Bob Liberman reports, identified the virus that causes chicken pox as the same that causes shingles—lying dormant in the spinal ganglia for 20 to 30 years. Don is now on the trail of the virus that causes multiple sclerosis.
Jon Mandaville retired from Portland (Oregon) State University, where he had been a professor in Middle Eastern studies for more than 40 years. Jon worked for some periods in Yemen, Damascus and Istanbul.
Ted Johanson retired from shoe manufacturing in 1995 but “retirement” is not in his vocabulary. Living on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, just off the coast of Camden, Maine, Ted is the volunteer head of the Vinalhaven Lobsterman’s Association, having managed it from the red to the black in a short period. Ted spent part of his early retirement pulling lobster traps. He also is a partner in 4 Fossils, which is a granite quarry. Ted and his three 70-year-old-plus partners revitalized the quarry to provide for the island’s needs. Stew and Lauretta Economou and Al and Kathy Munro had a terrific visit with Ted and Patty right after our 50th.
Randy Malin says his absence from the 50th is “no more mysterious” than the need to attend a family wedding. Bob “Fildy” Filderman and he are planning all sorts of wonderful things for us for the mini-reunion in San Diego in May 2010.
Our retired class president Chris Cundey has redirected his energies to the New London (New Hampshire) Hospital, where fellow ’59s David Marshall and John Ferries also are board members.
Now my appeal: Please use the Green Card to let me know news—interactions with classmates, interesting trips, funny situations—the news does not have to be of the major variety, just something we’d all enjoy. Thanks.
—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; amunro1@comcast.net
Nov - Dec 2009
As your new secretary I have large shoes to fill, as Paul Stein did a fabulous job over the past five years. The creativity and scope of his Class Notes will be hard to match. He has been very helpful in guiding me through the process to my first set of notes. Thanks, Paul!
Those of us fortunate enough to attend the 50th reunion had a great time catching up with classmates. Of course a number of 1959s had conflicts that prevented them from attending. They wished to join us but could not. The following covers some of them:
Bob Liberman writes that his UCLA team of experts in psychiatric rehabilitation have trained more than 150 clinicians of the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut, in the use of social skills training modules developed and validated by Bob during the past two decades. Bob’s programs for psychiatric rehabilitation have been translated into 23 languages and are used on all continents.
Don Gilden, Bob Liberman reports, identified the virus that causes chicken pox as the same that causes shingles—lying dormant in the spinal ganglia for 20 to 30 years. Don is now on the trail of the virus that causes multiple sclerosis.
Jon Mandaville retired from Portland (Oregon) State University, where he had been a professor in Middle Eastern studies for more than 40 years. Jon worked for some periods in Yemen, Damascus and Istanbul.
Ted Johanson retired from shoe manufacturing in 1995 but “retirement” is not in his vocabulary. Living on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, just off the coast of Camden, Maine, Ted is the volunteer head of the Vinalhaven Lobsterman’s Association, having managed it from the red to the black in a short period. Ted spent part of his early retirement pulling lobster traps. He also is a partner in 4 Fossils, which is a granite quarry. Ted and his three 70-year-old-plus partners revitalized the quarry to provide for the island’s needs. Stew and Lauretta Economou and Al and Kathy Munro had a terrific visit with Ted and Patty right after our 50th.
Randy Malin says his absence from the 50th is “no more mysterious” than the need to attend a family wedding. Bob “Fildy” Filderman and he are planning all sorts of wonderful things for us for the mini-reunion in San Diego in May 2010.
Our retired class president Chris Cundey has redirected his energies to the New London (New Hampshire) Hospital, where fellow ’59s David Marshall and John Ferries also are board members.
Now my appeal: Please use the Green Card to let me know news—interactions with classmates, interesting trips, funny situations—the news does not have to be of the major variety, just something we’d all enjoy. Thanks.
—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; amunro1@comcast.net