Class Note 1962
Issue
January-February 2023
Once again, Mike Schaefer and his wife, Heide, flawlessly organized the annual mini-reunion in Hanover during the first weekend in October, with a total of 30 attendees. President Woody Chittick presided over the class meeting, with eight additional classmates attending by Zoom. Highlights: Co-tripmeister Roger Usborne presented highlights of the “Sail the Trail” (of Lewis and Clark) cruise down the Snake and Columbia rivers in Washington from Spokane to Vancouver from April 23 to May 1. (Contact rwusborne@cox.net or call 619-871-9207.) Alan Rapoport announced that on October 11 Elizabeth Fagan, M.D., would present her fourth update on Covid-19 on behalf of the Caring Class Network. Woody proposed a reduction in the size of the executive committee and in the number of meetings to three per year. The 2023 mini will take place October 6-8 (Yale).
Research anthropologist and award-winning documentary filmmaker David Feingold presented a photographic exhibition, Cambodia: War and Beauty, at the American University of Paris on October 5-28 (https://bit.ly/3Fp4viY). Watch this space for a recap of David’s legendary career.
Jim Blair reports that he has commenced efforts to revive the class dinners in Ridgefield, New Jersey, launched by Irwin Kramer around 2011. The dinners were held about three times a year at Irwin’s favorite restaurant, La Lanterna, which featured great Italian food and an equally great bring-your-own policy for beverages. Classmates and spouses came from as near as Ridgewood and as far as the mid-Hudson Valley, 75 miles north. Attendees have included Frank Kehl, John Clark, Tyko Kihlstedt, Carl Funke, Roy Schoen, Brock Saxe. The dinners, now renamed Irwin Kramer Memorial Dinners, hit a first roadblock with Covid and a second with Irwin’s death on January 31, 2022. A detailed announcement to classmates in the New York metro area will be going out shortly and Jim has great expectations that a quorum will respond.
In addition to the death of Irwin P. Kramer of Hackensack, New Jersey, reported above, I regret to report the deaths of Robert C. Olson, M.D., of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, on September 15, and Joseph O. Myers of Watsontown, Pennsylvania, on August 27.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com
Research anthropologist and award-winning documentary filmmaker David Feingold presented a photographic exhibition, Cambodia: War and Beauty, at the American University of Paris on October 5-28 (https://bit.ly/3Fp4viY). Watch this space for a recap of David’s legendary career.
Jim Blair reports that he has commenced efforts to revive the class dinners in Ridgefield, New Jersey, launched by Irwin Kramer around 2011. The dinners were held about three times a year at Irwin’s favorite restaurant, La Lanterna, which featured great Italian food and an equally great bring-your-own policy for beverages. Classmates and spouses came from as near as Ridgewood and as far as the mid-Hudson Valley, 75 miles north. Attendees have included Frank Kehl, John Clark, Tyko Kihlstedt, Carl Funke, Roy Schoen, Brock Saxe. The dinners, now renamed Irwin Kramer Memorial Dinners, hit a first roadblock with Covid and a second with Irwin’s death on January 31, 2022. A detailed announcement to classmates in the New York metro area will be going out shortly and Jim has great expectations that a quorum will respond.
In addition to the death of Irwin P. Kramer of Hackensack, New Jersey, reported above, I regret to report the deaths of Robert C. Olson, M.D., of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, on September 15, and Joseph O. Myers of Watsontown, Pennsylvania, on August 27.
—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com