Class Note 1960
Issue
May-June 2023
I have some winter tales to share.
John Goyette and Margie were winter pioneering at his place on Merrymeeting Lake, New Hampshire. John’s family built this summer cottage in 1953. Minus-50 wind chills were predicted that night! Test was successful.
Art Coburn says: “Good winter snow and ski weather alternated with chilly, clear days, allowing me to bike a little route near my house.”
Jim Foch in central New Jersey had practically no rain from July to September, a gardener’s nightmare. As of Groundhog Day, there had been no snow, an old fogey’s dream.
Jim Gallagher sang: “Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina. Yesterday we had some rain but all in all I can’t complain. Seriously, we’ve not had the disastrous weather in Charlotte, North Carolina, that other parts of the country have experienced.”
Eric Sailer writes: “Sometime in the late 1990s Dudley Weider and I got talked into joining an international expedition to ski 300 miles across the Greenland ice cap. We started on the eastern side and climbed 10,000 feet up onto the ice cap. It was 30 miles a day at minus-30 with a 30-pound pack in a 30-mile-an-hour wind. Five days into the trip I could not warm up my feet and had a chance to abort the trip by helicopter. Dudley toughed it out in spite a frostbitten foot and continued on and made it across. He was a remarkable athlete.”
Dick Ossen writes: “We now live in Fort Myers, Florida, year-round, so we got a direct hit from Hurricane Ian last September. Because Pat is on oxygen 24/7, the loss of power would shut down her machine. So we loaded up her portable unit and drove to my sister’s house in Boca Raton before the power went out. We returned a few days later once power was restored. The devastation was unlike anything we have ever seen before. A 15-foot wave of ocean water destroyed homes, large boats, businesses, and schools and there were more than 100 deaths. We had previously installed hurricane windows, shutters, and lanai screens, so had no damage except for a few lanai screens that were quickly replaced.”
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com
John Goyette and Margie were winter pioneering at his place on Merrymeeting Lake, New Hampshire. John’s family built this summer cottage in 1953. Minus-50 wind chills were predicted that night! Test was successful.
Art Coburn says: “Good winter snow and ski weather alternated with chilly, clear days, allowing me to bike a little route near my house.”
Jim Foch in central New Jersey had practically no rain from July to September, a gardener’s nightmare. As of Groundhog Day, there had been no snow, an old fogey’s dream.
Jim Gallagher sang: “Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina. Yesterday we had some rain but all in all I can’t complain. Seriously, we’ve not had the disastrous weather in Charlotte, North Carolina, that other parts of the country have experienced.”
Eric Sailer writes: “Sometime in the late 1990s Dudley Weider and I got talked into joining an international expedition to ski 300 miles across the Greenland ice cap. We started on the eastern side and climbed 10,000 feet up onto the ice cap. It was 30 miles a day at minus-30 with a 30-pound pack in a 30-mile-an-hour wind. Five days into the trip I could not warm up my feet and had a chance to abort the trip by helicopter. Dudley toughed it out in spite a frostbitten foot and continued on and made it across. He was a remarkable athlete.”
Dick Ossen writes: “We now live in Fort Myers, Florida, year-round, so we got a direct hit from Hurricane Ian last September. Because Pat is on oxygen 24/7, the loss of power would shut down her machine. So we loaded up her portable unit and drove to my sister’s house in Boca Raton before the power went out. We returned a few days later once power was restored. The devastation was unlike anything we have ever seen before. A 15-foot wave of ocean water destroyed homes, large boats, businesses, and schools and there were more than 100 deaths. We had previously installed hurricane windows, shutters, and lanai screens, so had no damage except for a few lanai screens that were quickly replaced.”
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com