Class Note 1960
Take heed: Campions has closed its doors in Hanover forever. This means that shopping for certain perfumes and other liquid aromatics will no longer be available to the geriatric crowds frequenting Main Street as an alternative to watching a football game. Oh, woe!
Once again the academics among us have risen to the top. Mel Small, distinguished professor of history emeritus at Wayne State University, is the editor of A Companion to Richard M. Nixon. This book examines Nixon’s foreign and domestic policies through a series of scholarly essays.
Also, still pursuing the academic life is Frank Loeb as a biology professor at Stockton State College in central New Jersey. After spending six years as a Marine doctor in Vietnam and a further assignment at Bethesda Naval Hospital in general medicine, the world of young, malleable minds summoned him to the college ranks. Frank makes random monthly contributions to the editorial page of the Atlantic City Press. This generates a lot of rebuttals, thus keeping him on his toes.
Buzz Page has managed to stay under the class radar scope for years, but is now exposed. He was hard to locate at times but was seen in Providence, Rhode Island; Lebanon, New Hampshire; Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; and now in East Boothbay, Maine—not exactly a corporate gypsy as each move was voluntary. His career has encompassed 15 years of law practice, 10 years of his family antique car business, restoring old houses in Charleston coupled with a highly productive rare map business and for the past 13 years living in the oldest house in East Boothbay. Somehow he persuaded Duncan Gray to purchase the house next door.
Bruce Hulbert and Hal Burge roomed together for two years while members of Alpha Chi Rho. This friendship persists as they will jointly celebrate 50 years of marriage with wives Margaret and Sandy, respectively. A long time ago Bruce persuaded Dick Levy to be his best man and Howie Jelenik and Steve Banks ’59 to add additional support. After a Navy career Bruce moved inland to Goodyear, Arizona, where he now delights in confounding the TSA with his titanium knee and hip.
Peter Erwin has given up running in marathons and shorter races, has had both knees replaced and is now recovering from several operations on a bum hip. He lives in Grande Village Retirement Community in Twinsburg, Ohio, if you are in the area.
Like many others, Bruce Lively, Jim Graham and Earle Patterson have retained a friendship begun in Hanover. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions Bruce worked as a trust administrator for six different banks without ever changing offices. Now he divides his time between Branford, Connecticut, and a winterized house in Lincolnville, Maine. As Hawkeye Pierce once said, this is life at its finest kind!
Finally, Washington’s loss is our gain, as rather than orate from the floor of the House of Representatives, John Mitchell is our new class secretary. It has been fun. Cheers!!
—Spencer Morgan, 315 Inverness Court, Flat Rock, NC 28731; (828) 696-9641; smorgan863@aol.com
