Class Note 1962
Issue
May - Jun 2017
Our 55th reunion is now very close at hand. Remember that for the first time it is a mid-week Hanover gathering, June 12-15. Our reunion committee is promising a full program of activities balanced with plenty of time for relaxed schmoozing. Weather permitting, our official reunion dinner will take place on the Baker Library lawn with entertainment by the Dartmouth Aires. Plan to join your classmates to renew old friendships, make new ones and catch up on all that our campus has to offer. If for some reason the mailed information has not reached you, details are available also (as are lots of other interesting items) on our website: http://1962.dartmouth.org.
We recently learned of the deaths this past December of John “Jack” Fitzgibbon Jr. of Naples, Florida, and Dwight M. Hayward of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. DAM no longer publishes obituaries in the hard copy magazine but they can be found in the online version. Details also are posted at the “In Memoriam” section of our class website.
After input from many classmates, tripmeisters Tom Komarek and Rog Usborne have selected a Mississippi River Cruise on the American Queen steamboat for our next class trip. It will begin April 22, 2018, with an overnight hotel stay in Memphis, Tennessee, followed by seven days rollin’ down the river to New Orleans. Details on the trip and how to book it will be available at our June reunion, on the class website and in our newsletter.
Jim “Sobie” Abramson writes that he is now fully retired and since 2007 has been living in New York City. Sobie and wife of 50 years, Joan Paley, have three daughters and five grandchildren. After Dartmouth he did a tour of duty in the Army, graduated from Harvard Business School and worked a few years for Colgate Palmolive. He spent the rest of his working years in his own business as an alcohol beverage distributor in Massachusetts. He sold his business in 2001 but stayed with the acquirer for another six years. Currently he does some mentoring for the Baruch Business School, a part of the City University of New York.
Sobie reports he recently read and enjoyed Robert “Chip” Simpson’s Webley .45 and Other Short Stories, a collection of 10 diverse short stories. Chip is a former Marine who served in Vietnam and became a career diplomat. After 50 years these two fraternity brothers and classmates reestablished contact over dinner with their wives and look forward to staying in touch. Hanover in June, perhaps?
At our June reunion the class will elect officers to serve until the next reunion. As called for in our class constitution, president Alan Rapoport appointed a nominating committee to present nominees to the class. Committee members are Josh Rich, Mike Howard, John Walters and Tom Komarek as chairman. The committee has announced that they will nominate Barry Alperin as president, Gordy Aydelott as vice president, David L. Smith as secretary and Charlie Balch to continue as treasurer.
—Paul Weinberg, 39 Abbott St., Beverly, MA 01915-5221; (978) 922-4963; pweinmass@aol.com
We recently learned of the deaths this past December of John “Jack” Fitzgibbon Jr. of Naples, Florida, and Dwight M. Hayward of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. DAM no longer publishes obituaries in the hard copy magazine but they can be found in the online version. Details also are posted at the “In Memoriam” section of our class website.
After input from many classmates, tripmeisters Tom Komarek and Rog Usborne have selected a Mississippi River Cruise on the American Queen steamboat for our next class trip. It will begin April 22, 2018, with an overnight hotel stay in Memphis, Tennessee, followed by seven days rollin’ down the river to New Orleans. Details on the trip and how to book it will be available at our June reunion, on the class website and in our newsletter.
Jim “Sobie” Abramson writes that he is now fully retired and since 2007 has been living in New York City. Sobie and wife of 50 years, Joan Paley, have three daughters and five grandchildren. After Dartmouth he did a tour of duty in the Army, graduated from Harvard Business School and worked a few years for Colgate Palmolive. He spent the rest of his working years in his own business as an alcohol beverage distributor in Massachusetts. He sold his business in 2001 but stayed with the acquirer for another six years. Currently he does some mentoring for the Baruch Business School, a part of the City University of New York.
Sobie reports he recently read and enjoyed Robert “Chip” Simpson’s Webley .45 and Other Short Stories, a collection of 10 diverse short stories. Chip is a former Marine who served in Vietnam and became a career diplomat. After 50 years these two fraternity brothers and classmates reestablished contact over dinner with their wives and look forward to staying in touch. Hanover in June, perhaps?
At our June reunion the class will elect officers to serve until the next reunion. As called for in our class constitution, president Alan Rapoport appointed a nominating committee to present nominees to the class. Committee members are Josh Rich, Mike Howard, John Walters and Tom Komarek as chairman. The committee has announced that they will nominate Barry Alperin as president, Gordy Aydelott as vice president, David L. Smith as secretary and Charlie Balch to continue as treasurer.
—Paul Weinberg, 39 Abbott St., Beverly, MA 01915-5221; (978) 922-4963; pweinmass@aol.com