Class Note 1962
Issue
May-June 2024
Two for the road to recovery. Good reports from Frank Kehl, recovered after surgery some months ago. Pat reports Gordy McKean, released from hospitalization and brief rehab on January 22, recently passed his six-week checkup with flying colors, albeit with lingering tiredness. “It will probably be a year before he will be his normal robust self and able to work in the garden and shellfish as he did before.”
Alan Rapoport, Al Huck, David “Bags” Bergman, and Bernie Jacobs continue their valuable contribution through Caring Class Network Zoom sessions big and small. The larger lecture sessions, including members of the classes of 1960 and 1963, have been attended by audiences typically ranging between 50 and 65. The latest presentation by my wife, Elizabeth Fagan, M.D., updated us on Covid-19 and emphasized the importance of obtaining the Shingrix vaccine for shingles.
Bags and Bernie continue to hold monthly, small, group sessions addressing the challenges experienced by caregivers. To be added to the mailing list, contact Alan (alanrapoport@gmail.com).
Jim Blair reports that contributions to the memorial fund for Dan Tompkins now total $6,400 with additional checks reported to be in the mail. The proceeds will go toward purchases of books for Dartmouth’s classics department, where Dan both learned and taught. Each book will be emblazoned with a bookplate in memory of Dan as a classical scholar. To contribute contact jamesnblair@gmail.com.
Recommended reading: “It was Mike Slive’s SEC Grand Slam—Greg Sankey’s Just Rounding the Bases,” an article by Rock Westfall in the Mike Farrell Sports blog February 9 (http://tinyurl.com/ehd6znjj). In 2002 “Mike Slive stepped into an SEC perceived by the nation as being an illiterate NASCAR moonshiner. And then he went to work.…By 2006, Slive rebuilt a league ready for takeoff. The Florida Gators won the first of seven consecutive national championships by SEC programs, and the league became the Gold Standard of college football.…As Bill Parcells would say, ‘You are what your record says you are.’ Slive died as the GOAT [greatest of all time] of college commissioners.”
—David L. Smith, 1810 Columbine Place, Sun City Center, FL 33573; (775) 870-2354; david@davidl smith.com
Alan Rapoport, Al Huck, David “Bags” Bergman, and Bernie Jacobs continue their valuable contribution through Caring Class Network Zoom sessions big and small. The larger lecture sessions, including members of the classes of 1960 and 1963, have been attended by audiences typically ranging between 50 and 65. The latest presentation by my wife, Elizabeth Fagan, M.D., updated us on Covid-19 and emphasized the importance of obtaining the Shingrix vaccine for shingles.
Bags and Bernie continue to hold monthly, small, group sessions addressing the challenges experienced by caregivers. To be added to the mailing list, contact Alan (alanrapoport@gmail.com).
Jim Blair reports that contributions to the memorial fund for Dan Tompkins now total $6,400 with additional checks reported to be in the mail. The proceeds will go toward purchases of books for Dartmouth’s classics department, where Dan both learned and taught. Each book will be emblazoned with a bookplate in memory of Dan as a classical scholar. To contribute contact jamesnblair@gmail.com.
Recommended reading: “It was Mike Slive’s SEC Grand Slam—Greg Sankey’s Just Rounding the Bases,” an article by Rock Westfall in the Mike Farrell Sports blog February 9 (http://tinyurl.com/ehd6znjj). In 2002 “Mike Slive stepped into an SEC perceived by the nation as being an illiterate NASCAR moonshiner. And then he went to work.…By 2006, Slive rebuilt a league ready for takeoff. The Florida Gators won the first of seven consecutive national championships by SEC programs, and the league became the Gold Standard of college football.…As Bill Parcells would say, ‘You are what your record says you are.’ Slive died as the GOAT [greatest of all time] of college commissioners.”
—David L. Smith, 1810 Columbine Place, Sun City Center, FL 33573; (775) 870-2354; david@davidl smith.com