Class Note 1960

Len Schmolka continues to live in Armonk, New York. Following graduation from Harvard Law School he practiced law for 17 years in New York City and for the past 28 years he has been a professor at the New York University Law School, specializing in taxation law. Unfortunately Len will not attend our reunion as he is committed to teaching a course at the Internal Revenue Service in Washington. 
Cape Vincent, New York, is where Lake Erie ends and the Saint Lawrence River begins. Here we find Urban Hirschey serving as a town supervisor but claiming that Sally makes the town tick. An effort to construct 150 wind turbines in the town drew Urban to the political arena. He now chairs the wind tower ethics group responsible for adjudicating the construction of wind turbines. When not embroiled in politics he consorts with Dick Foley.


Ray Martinelli received his engineering degree from Thayer School and then a Ph.D. from Princeton. He and Linda have lived in Hightstown, New Jersey, “seemingly forever!” Ray spent a combined 40 years working for the RCA central research laboratory in Princeton and then as a contract employee specializing in solid state electronics after the lab was sold. 


Tony Rodolakis’ brother reports that Tony is spending his fifth year in an assisted living facility in western Massachusetts. He has multiple sclerosis but is mentally sharp and connected to the world by his television and computer. He attended either our 40th or 45th reunion thanks to the efforts of several of his Tri Kap brothers.


Sometime in 2008 Judy and Dave Harrison visited their daughter Juli and her family in Massachusetts. While there Juli won the Dover/Medfield Triathlon. Dave has a picture of her at the finish with one of her occasional training partners, a local politician named Scott Brown. Last year Dave was persuaded to contribute to Brown’s senatorial election campaign and the rest is history. Having been editor of the class of 1956 Exeter 50th reunion book, obviously similar to Musings, Dave now labors as class correspondent. We share an empathetic relationship. The Harrisons live in Hailey, Idaho, and surely frequent the slopes of Sun Valley as well as cross-country ski. We will see them both at our 50th.


Sadly, Jim Graham will not attend the reunion due to poor health. As a professor specializing in African history, particularly of the Congo, he taught for two years at Duke University and is now a professor emeritus after retiring from 33 additional years of teaching at Oakland University in Michigan. He is in occasional contact with some of his Hanover crew teammates, Pete Holland, Charlie Lund and Earle Patterson.


—Spencer Morgan, 315 Inverness Court, Flat Rock, NC 28731; (828) 696-9641; smorgan863@aol.com