Class Note 1962
Issue
Marsh Potterton writes, “I just finished reading the Charleston, South Carolina, newsletter, cover to cover. All I saw were compliments for Tom, Charlie and Thad. And even Your Worthlessness. Not a word about Al Huck, who brought those wonderful words and pictures to us all. As I read the comments of my classmates, I could feel the fellowship and love fly off the pages. What a nice souvenir from a wonderful event. Without Al, it wouldn’t have happened.”
So true, Spider, and furthermore Al has generously shared with your grateful secretary information gleaned from the Green Cards that, due to word limitations, he was unable to include in his newsletter. So, Huck, this column is for you—with thanks.
Ross Burkhardt reports that he traveled to Egypt and Petra in April, and adds that he was sorry he missed the other ’62s who were there about the same time. Ross is working on a new book about eighth-graders and says he is looking forward to our 50th: “I’ve begun work on a reunion media project that spans 50 incredible years.” Ross’s presentation will be a must-see for all ’62s.
Day Mount writes, “As we approach 2012 the class motto might be ‘carpe diem’ or ‘do it while you can.’ Kathie and I are traveling often. We visited Big Bend National Park in March and in April are off to Spain, Portugal and France. We volunteer in between, bike, ballroom dance, enjoy family and friends and feel very fortunate.”
Jim Owings tells of the serendipitous discovery that he lives less than two miles from Sandy Apgar in Ruxton, Maryland. Jim says that Sandy hosted a Christmas party for Dartmouth grads last December—mean age of attendees: 27—at which the Dartmouth choir gave an inspired performance and everyone had a great time.
Tony Wolfe keeps very busy in Miami as chief of plastic surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital, where he actively performs cranial facial surgery and his wife specializes in breast reconstruction. Tony adds, “Thank goodness for our nannies to look after our six kids, ages 4.5 to 15.”
Manuel Buchwald has retired from medicine after 35 years as a research scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children and at the University of Toronto in Canada. “Once free of encumbrances I started to write,” he says, “first a memoir and now fiction. I have two or three novels in mind that I’m putting on paper, one by one. It is very satisfying work.”
Bill Roth is also involved in writing and healthcare. Currently a professor at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in strategic planning and management theory, Bill has just published Comprehensive Healthcare for the U.S.: An Idealized Model (Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2010). Bill writes that the purpose of the book is “to design an ‘idealized’ universal healthcare system for the United States that ensures every citizen access to adequate treatment in the most cost-effective manner possible”—a timely and ambitious undertaking for our time.
—Jim Haines, 307 Sewickley Ridge Drive, Sewickley, PA 15143;(412) 741-9088; jbhaines@comcast.net
Nov - Dec 2010
Marsh Potterton writes, “I just finished reading the Charleston, South Carolina, newsletter, cover to cover. All I saw were compliments for Tom, Charlie and Thad. And even Your Worthlessness. Not a word about Al Huck, who brought those wonderful words and pictures to us all. As I read the comments of my classmates, I could feel the fellowship and love fly off the pages. What a nice souvenir from a wonderful event. Without Al, it wouldn’t have happened.”
So true, Spider, and furthermore Al has generously shared with your grateful secretary information gleaned from the Green Cards that, due to word limitations, he was unable to include in his newsletter. So, Huck, this column is for you—with thanks.
Ross Burkhardt reports that he traveled to Egypt and Petra in April, and adds that he was sorry he missed the other ’62s who were there about the same time. Ross is working on a new book about eighth-graders and says he is looking forward to our 50th: “I’ve begun work on a reunion media project that spans 50 incredible years.” Ross’s presentation will be a must-see for all ’62s.
Day Mount writes, “As we approach 2012 the class motto might be ‘carpe diem’ or ‘do it while you can.’ Kathie and I are traveling often. We visited Big Bend National Park in March and in April are off to Spain, Portugal and France. We volunteer in between, bike, ballroom dance, enjoy family and friends and feel very fortunate.”
Jim Owings tells of the serendipitous discovery that he lives less than two miles from Sandy Apgar in Ruxton, Maryland. Jim says that Sandy hosted a Christmas party for Dartmouth grads last December—mean age of attendees: 27—at which the Dartmouth choir gave an inspired performance and everyone had a great time.
Tony Wolfe keeps very busy in Miami as chief of plastic surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital, where he actively performs cranial facial surgery and his wife specializes in breast reconstruction. Tony adds, “Thank goodness for our nannies to look after our six kids, ages 4.5 to 15.”
Manuel Buchwald has retired from medicine after 35 years as a research scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children and at the University of Toronto in Canada. “Once free of encumbrances I started to write,” he says, “first a memoir and now fiction. I have two or three novels in mind that I’m putting on paper, one by one. It is very satisfying work.”
Bill Roth is also involved in writing and healthcare. Currently a professor at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in strategic planning and management theory, Bill has just published Comprehensive Healthcare for the U.S.: An Idealized Model (Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2010). Bill writes that the purpose of the book is “to design an ‘idealized’ universal healthcare system for the United States that ensures every citizen access to adequate treatment in the most cost-effective manner possible”—a timely and ambitious undertaking for our time.
—Jim Haines, 307 Sewickley Ridge Drive, Sewickley, PA 15143;(412) 741-9088; jbhaines@comcast.net