Class Note 1959
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
In June 2002 Jim Bybee orchestrated a memorable event, attended by about 75 classmates and spouses, in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, area. It was billed as a 65th birthday celebration. Back then, “time’s winged chariot” was barely visible in our rear-view mirrors, but the gathering years have shifted that youthful perspective and most of us are now feeling the gravity of our upcoming, in a year or so, 80th birthdays. A few of us, our chronological vanguard, have already reached that milestone. Dave Marshall observed his milestone at home in New London, New Hampshire. Although he had professed to prefer a quiet celebration with Cynthia, he was feted by her, their four children and a DeMille-worthy cast of other members of their extended family. Bob Torrens, who retired as a business lawyer in Toronto about 20 years ago, marked his big birthday with Sherry at a highly starred restaurant in Paris. They continued the celebration with a river cruise from Brussels to Amsterdam. As reported in the last column, Dick Liesching was honored by his son and many former ruggers on his 80th birthday at a rugby match in Hanover.
Will Gray, one of the former ruggers in attendance at the Liesching event, reports that he went from the rugby facility to watch the softball team, knowing that Debbie Nagel was there with her daughter. Debbie is Al Krutsch’s daughter, and Will wondered about the possibility of Al’s granddaughter, Jessie, a highly recruited infielder and rising high school junior in southern California, going to Dartmouth.
Donna and Sam Swansen have been living for six years at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, the original retirement and life-care community in the Philadelphia area. Sam continues to practice estate planning and has long been a knowledgeable advocate of various life-care options. He reports that Anne and John Baldwin moved to Foulkeways from Syracuse, New York, about six months ago. Sam and John are not the only pair of ’59s at the same retirement and life-care community. Tina and Bill Colehower and Doreen and Lee Othon have recently become residents of Shell Point in Fort Myers, Florida.
—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com
Will Gray, one of the former ruggers in attendance at the Liesching event, reports that he went from the rugby facility to watch the softball team, knowing that Debbie Nagel was there with her daughter. Debbie is Al Krutsch’s daughter, and Will wondered about the possibility of Al’s granddaughter, Jessie, a highly recruited infielder and rising high school junior in southern California, going to Dartmouth.
Donna and Sam Swansen have been living for six years at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, the original retirement and life-care community in the Philadelphia area. Sam continues to practice estate planning and has long been a knowledgeable advocate of various life-care options. He reports that Anne and John Baldwin moved to Foulkeways from Syracuse, New York, about six months ago. Sam and John are not the only pair of ’59s at the same retirement and life-care community. Tina and Bill Colehower and Doreen and Lee Othon have recently become residents of Shell Point in Fort Myers, Florida.
—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com