Class Note 1960
Issue
May-June 2020
Formal registration (online only) is now underway for our 60th reunion, June 15-18. Go to alumni.dartmouth.edu, click on “engage,” click on “reunions,” then click on “Class of 1960.” Also, see the latest schedule there. Looks like a big turnout. Early registration is extremely helpful for budgeting and planning.
U.S. Masters Swimming released its 2019 national top 10 lists, which show 1960 classmates ranking first and second in two events for the 80-84 age-group. Bill McClung was first at the 50-meter butterfly and Bob Colyer led for the 200-meter breaststroke. Bill swam his times in Atlanta and Bob at Orlando, Florida. Bob also won the 2019 National Senior Games 100-yard individual medley at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Gail and Bob Derderian wintered in Vero Beach, Florida. They had dinner with Britt-Marie and Andy Paul, who both “looked great.” Andy and Bob also played a round of golf. Before leaving for Florida the Derderians visited Pat and Dick Ossen prior to their river cruise in Europe. In November Peter Farquhar and Mary made their annual two-week trip to Mazatlán, Mexico. They were joined by Jim Blaisdell and his lovely former-teacher wife, Iris. The “boys” enjoyed attending a Mazatlán Venados baseball game. No matter that they lost! Larry Dingman writes from Massachusetts: “Jane and I sold our historic house in Eastham in 2018 and transitioned to an apartment in Yarmouth with our dog and cat. Although downsizing was a struggle we enjoy our new situation. We exercise by walking in the surrounding woods. I wrote a third edition of my hydrology textbook a few years ago and mentor a Ph.D. student at the City University of New York. I play trombone in a couple of swing bands and a concert band—having all these musical opportunities has proven to be a wonderful and unexpected benefit of retiring to Cape Cod! I talk with Bob Luce every week or two and occasionally with Dunc Mathewson and Gordie DeWitt. I’m thinking seriously about reunion.”
“Well,” says Max Eveleth, “we continue to hang out on the coastline of southern Maine until the rising tides push us out, once and for all. In a few weeks we will celebrate our 63rd anniversary. We have three grandchildren so far, and their weddings are ramping up so we are most optimistic. Health-wise we are slightly below average but given several days to recover we can still cut a rug here and there.”
See you in June.
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com
U.S. Masters Swimming released its 2019 national top 10 lists, which show 1960 classmates ranking first and second in two events for the 80-84 age-group. Bill McClung was first at the 50-meter butterfly and Bob Colyer led for the 200-meter breaststroke. Bill swam his times in Atlanta and Bob at Orlando, Florida. Bob also won the 2019 National Senior Games 100-yard individual medley at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Gail and Bob Derderian wintered in Vero Beach, Florida. They had dinner with Britt-Marie and Andy Paul, who both “looked great.” Andy and Bob also played a round of golf. Before leaving for Florida the Derderians visited Pat and Dick Ossen prior to their river cruise in Europe. In November Peter Farquhar and Mary made their annual two-week trip to Mazatlán, Mexico. They were joined by Jim Blaisdell and his lovely former-teacher wife, Iris. The “boys” enjoyed attending a Mazatlán Venados baseball game. No matter that they lost! Larry Dingman writes from Massachusetts: “Jane and I sold our historic house in Eastham in 2018 and transitioned to an apartment in Yarmouth with our dog and cat. Although downsizing was a struggle we enjoy our new situation. We exercise by walking in the surrounding woods. I wrote a third edition of my hydrology textbook a few years ago and mentor a Ph.D. student at the City University of New York. I play trombone in a couple of swing bands and a concert band—having all these musical opportunities has proven to be a wonderful and unexpected benefit of retiring to Cape Cod! I talk with Bob Luce every week or two and occasionally with Dunc Mathewson and Gordie DeWitt. I’m thinking seriously about reunion.”
“Well,” says Max Eveleth, “we continue to hang out on the coastline of southern Maine until the rising tides push us out, once and for all. In a few weeks we will celebrate our 63rd anniversary. We have three grandchildren so far, and their weddings are ramping up so we are most optimistic. Health-wise we are slightly below average but given several days to recover we can still cut a rug here and there.”
See you in June.
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com