With 11 Class Note columns between this issue and our 55th reunion in June 2014, I decided to audit classmate coverage to see what the potential reporting classmate pool is between now and our 55th. It is large! Of our 570 current classmates who continue to stay connected to the College, this column has reported on 129 or only 23 percent. Please continue to fill out Green Cards, e-mail or send notes to me. Modesty seems to rule in 1959, so please realize we all care about your activities. This column has some limitations on length, so Doug Wise (class website) and Jim Bybee (newsletter) and I coordinate our reporting. Class Notes, of course, allow other classes to keep up with 1959s.


The New York Times business section on May 19 featured a picture of Jim Giddens, MF Global’s trustee and his success at recovering $168 million from a bank, the first payment since the commodity brokerage firm filed for bankruptcy. Is Jim our first front-page classmate picture? Maybe Pete Schreier will convince Jim to be a class agent.


Les Larsen says he sprang to attention while watching Jeopardy and came up with the right answer to the question: Who outfitted the Ivy League through the years? Answer: J. Press. Les still has an “Indian head” tie he purchased from J. Press. Les remembers a full display of these ties at the New York City store way back when. Dick Press will be a contributor to the Ivy style exhibit at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. The exhibit will be open from September 14 through January 5, 2013. Stop by for a memory jog.


Another professional recognition for Bob Josefsberg! Last April he was inducted into the National Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. Bob was honored for contributions to the legal profession—both inside and outside of the courtroom. Most recently he was granted the Ted Klein Special Recognition Award by the Greater Miami Jewish Federation for his work as a committed philanthropist and passionate advocate for the most vulnerable.


Ed Hobbie sent an article from the New York Post (February 8, 2009) titled “Their Very Own Field of Dreams.” See if you remember. In 1960 a DC-3 set down in a snowy Iowa cornfield. Ten Minneapolis Lakers and nine others were on board. All were unscathed. 


Rudy LaRusso missed the flight as he was home nursing an ulcer. The article notes that Rudy played 10 seasons with the Lakers, averaging 15.6 points and 9.4 rebounds (worth tens of millions in today’s NBA) and was 67 years old when he died of Parkinson’s disease in 2004. Ed’s brother, who followed Rudy’s career, sent the article and thought it should go into our class history file. Anyone have that file?


The column has 5,500 words available in the next two years. When you get together with classmates, whether by design or by chance, agree who will contact me, as chance meetings often have “six degrees of separation” stories.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603)-2176; amunro1@comcast.net