Class Note 1962
Issue
September-October 2022
“And a good time was had by all,” as the saying goes, thanks to our veteran reunion co-chairs, Dick Brooks and Bill Pierce. We celebrated our 60th reunion in style, as Al Huck ably described in his recent class newsletter, despite being forced by Covid-19 to withdraw on the second day of the reunion. Covid prevented outgoing class president Barry Halperin from attending.
At the class meeting we voted for the slate of elected class officers for the next five years: president Woody Chittick; vice president Richard Hannah; treasurer (for life) Charlie Balch; co-secretaries David Smith and Mary Vic Giersch. Appointed officers include Tom Komarek and Rog Usborne, co-tripmeisters; Peter Knight, digital content manager; Dan Tompkins, Sandy Apgar, Peter Brink, and Gary Spiess,faculty fellowship committee; John Walters, Alumni Council representative; Gene Gasbarro, class of 2012 liaison; and Mike Schaefer, mini-reunion chairman who will organize our fall mini this coming September 30 to October 2 (Penn).
After an extraordinary decade as head agent, John Schiffman—with thanks to all co-agents and his predecessors, John Walters and the late John Clark—passed the baton to Al Cook. As his final official act John presented President Hanlon with a check for $519,620, funds raised during the 2022 campaign, with the prospect of more to come before the campaign closed on June 30. Steve Reid presented a symbolic “check” for $41,790,983 (!) representing the total class contributions to the Call to Lead campaign in cash and bequests by members of the Bartlett Tower Society.
’Round the girdled earth they roam: Ann and Charlie Balch in Paris; Susan and Peter Brink and Mary Jane and Al Cook in Africa; and Elizabeth Fagan and yours truly in London.
Tom Green received the prestigious Brady Legal Action Award for his extraordinary efforts to set precedent in our courts to change the landscape of America’s gun violence epidemic.
I regret to report the unexpected death of John D. Thees Jr. of Magnolia, Texas, on May 27. At the request of his widow, Elyse Taylor, we raised a glass to John’s memory during the reunion. David B. Harrel died May 24.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com
At the class meeting we voted for the slate of elected class officers for the next five years: president Woody Chittick; vice president Richard Hannah; treasurer (for life) Charlie Balch; co-secretaries David Smith and Mary Vic Giersch. Appointed officers include Tom Komarek and Rog Usborne, co-tripmeisters; Peter Knight, digital content manager; Dan Tompkins, Sandy Apgar, Peter Brink, and Gary Spiess,faculty fellowship committee; John Walters, Alumni Council representative; Gene Gasbarro, class of 2012 liaison; and Mike Schaefer, mini-reunion chairman who will organize our fall mini this coming September 30 to October 2 (Penn).
After an extraordinary decade as head agent, John Schiffman—with thanks to all co-agents and his predecessors, John Walters and the late John Clark—passed the baton to Al Cook. As his final official act John presented President Hanlon with a check for $519,620, funds raised during the 2022 campaign, with the prospect of more to come before the campaign closed on June 30. Steve Reid presented a symbolic “check” for $41,790,983 (!) representing the total class contributions to the Call to Lead campaign in cash and bequests by members of the Bartlett Tower Society.
’Round the girdled earth they roam: Ann and Charlie Balch in Paris; Susan and Peter Brink and Mary Jane and Al Cook in Africa; and Elizabeth Fagan and yours truly in London.
Tom Green received the prestigious Brady Legal Action Award for his extraordinary efforts to set precedent in our courts to change the landscape of America’s gun violence epidemic.
I regret to report the unexpected death of John D. Thees Jr. of Magnolia, Texas, on May 27. At the request of his widow, Elyse Taylor, we raised a glass to John’s memory during the reunion. David B. Harrel died May 24.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com