These notes are being written in the season when some ’59s migrate from summer to winter homes. Doreen and Lee Othon drive from Mashpee, Massachusetts, to Bonita Springs, Florida, traveling on a weekend to avoid traffic snarls. Lee retired from the practice of oral surgery in Hanover, Massachusetts, about 10 years ago and he and Doreen have been dividing their years between Massachusetts and Florida. Lee is thinking that the maintenance of two residences and the biannual moves from one to the other may be ending and that they will, within a year or so, be full-time Florida residents. As stimulating as oral surgery may be (at least for the surgeon), Lee’s passion has always been golf. For many years he has officiated at New England golf events and served as trustee of the Ouimet Scholarship Fund, from which he received assistance while at Dartmouth. He is excited that one of his last officiating duties may be at a 2015 event at Baker Hill in New Hampshire, a familiar venue to many ’59 golfers.


For most migrating ’59s the general direction at this time of year is southward toward a gentler climate, but there are a few outliers. Mountains smothered in champagne powder draw Deb and Kurt Christiansen from southern California to a winter residence near Alta, Utah. Similarly, Arlyss and Ray Becker each year wend their way west from Maine to winter in Colorado. 


While many of us don’t regard this stage of our lives as a season for skiing, almost none regard it as a season for matrimony (other than for the next generation and beyond). So it is wonderful to hear of the marriage of Diane Parker Hazlewood to Read Heydt. Read, one of the few ’59s to enter the clergy, was ordained in the Episcopal Church about 20 years after graduation from Dartmouth and served in several locations for more than 30 years before retiring. He officiated at the memorial service held during our 50th reunion. Diane and Read will reside in Sarasota, Florida.


—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com