Class Note 1962
Issue
July-August 2023
Featured:Cultural icon Bob Christgau,recently limned as a class legend in this space, was featured in the March-April issue of the DAM citing his blog at robertchristgau.substack.com. Another class legend, scriptwriter, author, playwright, educator, and undergrad provocateur Steve Geller, continues to entertain with essays: “The First of Memories: Gore Vidal”; “The First of Memories: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.”; “Peter Sellers and Me”; and others recently featured in Scriptus Books (https://bit.ly/3ogPOYR).
Travels and reunions: Our peripatetic former president, Alan Rapoport, and Arja in Paris celebrating his 81st birthday, escaped the March torrential downpours and winds in Los Angeles. He has been invited to speak in Dubai and Australia in June. Upon returning stateside, Alan and Arja traveled to Silicon Valley, California, where Alan joined Art Lieberman and Phil Meyer for a hike and later dinner with Chuck Preuss and Barbara, Phil Meyer and Jan, and Sam Anderson and Marilee. In April Phil’s wife, Jan (janmeyerartist.com), curated a solo show of her paintings at Gallery 9 in Los Altos, California.
Before departing for temporary residence in Sun City Center, Florida, Elizabeth and I shared a farewell lunch in Houston with John Thees’ widow, Elyse Taylor, who soon will be relocating to Dallas. After the late-April Pacific Northwest class cruise, we will spend a couple of days enjoying the hospitality of Peter Knight and Zaida in Corvallis, Oregon. (More on the cruise to follow in the next Class Notes and Al Huck’s fabulous newsletter.)
Don’t forget this year’s mini-reunion in Hanover, Friday, October 6, to Sunday, October 8 (Yale).
Caring Class Network: Educational Zoom sessions gain traction with attendance now ranging between 65 to 85 classmates joined by the class of ’60 and ’63. Recent lectures include “Cognitive Changes” by Dr. Bob Santulli, “Good Mental Health” by Dr. Gary Moak, and “Covid-19 Update” by Dr. Elizabeth Fagan.
I regret to report the deaths of Clifton C. “Cliff” Smith (also Tuck and Thayer ’64) of Stow, Massachusetts, on January 21; John H. Shaw of Tampa on February 18; Gay Weeks, widow of Allan Weeks on April 10, legally and professionally assisted in Geneva, Switzerland.
—David L. Smith, 1814 Columbine Place, Sun City Center, FL; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com
Travels and reunions: Our peripatetic former president, Alan Rapoport, and Arja in Paris celebrating his 81st birthday, escaped the March torrential downpours and winds in Los Angeles. He has been invited to speak in Dubai and Australia in June. Upon returning stateside, Alan and Arja traveled to Silicon Valley, California, where Alan joined Art Lieberman and Phil Meyer for a hike and later dinner with Chuck Preuss and Barbara, Phil Meyer and Jan, and Sam Anderson and Marilee. In April Phil’s wife, Jan (janmeyerartist.com), curated a solo show of her paintings at Gallery 9 in Los Altos, California.
Before departing for temporary residence in Sun City Center, Florida, Elizabeth and I shared a farewell lunch in Houston with John Thees’ widow, Elyse Taylor, who soon will be relocating to Dallas. After the late-April Pacific Northwest class cruise, we will spend a couple of days enjoying the hospitality of Peter Knight and Zaida in Corvallis, Oregon. (More on the cruise to follow in the next Class Notes and Al Huck’s fabulous newsletter.)
Don’t forget this year’s mini-reunion in Hanover, Friday, October 6, to Sunday, October 8 (Yale).
Caring Class Network: Educational Zoom sessions gain traction with attendance now ranging between 65 to 85 classmates joined by the class of ’60 and ’63. Recent lectures include “Cognitive Changes” by Dr. Bob Santulli, “Good Mental Health” by Dr. Gary Moak, and “Covid-19 Update” by Dr. Elizabeth Fagan.
I regret to report the deaths of Clifton C. “Cliff” Smith (also Tuck and Thayer ’64) of Stow, Massachusetts, on January 21; John H. Shaw of Tampa on February 18; Gay Weeks, widow of Allan Weeks on April 10, legally and professionally assisted in Geneva, Switzerland.
—David L. Smith, 1814 Columbine Place, Sun City Center, FL; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com