Class Note 1964
Issue
January-February 2022
We are still shaking the tree (lone pine) to see what falls from the upper branches. The question remains, have you given in to a sedentary life or are you stepping on the gas mindful that the clock is ticking?
Hugh Savage has kept active! He remembers “listening to the radio show Life Begins at Eighty,” and true to the challenge, he has reinvented himself after a career of civil engineering in Portland, Maine. Before retiring he “scratched his service itch as a Sunday school teacher, a mentor to younger engineers, and an adult education algebra teacher.” Now retired, he has experienced the heavy responsibility and emotion of working with hospice patients and as a trained guardian ad litemrepresenting the interests of children in legal proceedings. Hugh says, “The cases are often heartbreaking for all the reasons imaginable.” He additionally is finding time to explore his family’s history and plans to pass on what he learns in a memoir.
Dan Dimancescu recently Zoomed a reunion with the members of his 1966 Japan kayak ocean expedition. Perhaps they talked about organizing another trip. It certainly was an unrivaled experience and contributed to the successful careers of its members. Classmate Tom Seymour went on to become general manager of several U.S. corporations active in Japan and Dan himself did “a lot of management research there in the 1980s” before his successful career as a consultant in the United States.
Bill Hamm writes that he and Kathleen have postponed moving to a continuing care retirement community (CCRC), preferring instead the independence of a condominium in Alexandria, Virginia. They are most interested however in comments from classmates who have chosen to move into CCRCs.
Finally, you perhaps were not there to see us leash-in the Yale bulldog at Homecoming. The class banner was carried by Dave Hewitt, Bill Lewis, Roy Lewicki, Ed Rubel, John Sanders, Tom Seymour, and Steve Ward. From the west stands the fall colors were spectacular!
—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com
Hugh Savage has kept active! He remembers “listening to the radio show Life Begins at Eighty,” and true to the challenge, he has reinvented himself after a career of civil engineering in Portland, Maine. Before retiring he “scratched his service itch as a Sunday school teacher, a mentor to younger engineers, and an adult education algebra teacher.” Now retired, he has experienced the heavy responsibility and emotion of working with hospice patients and as a trained guardian ad litemrepresenting the interests of children in legal proceedings. Hugh says, “The cases are often heartbreaking for all the reasons imaginable.” He additionally is finding time to explore his family’s history and plans to pass on what he learns in a memoir.
Dan Dimancescu recently Zoomed a reunion with the members of his 1966 Japan kayak ocean expedition. Perhaps they talked about organizing another trip. It certainly was an unrivaled experience and contributed to the successful careers of its members. Classmate Tom Seymour went on to become general manager of several U.S. corporations active in Japan and Dan himself did “a lot of management research there in the 1980s” before his successful career as a consultant in the United States.
Bill Hamm writes that he and Kathleen have postponed moving to a continuing care retirement community (CCRC), preferring instead the independence of a condominium in Alexandria, Virginia. They are most interested however in comments from classmates who have chosen to move into CCRCs.
Finally, you perhaps were not there to see us leash-in the Yale bulldog at Homecoming. The class banner was carried by Dave Hewitt, Bill Lewis, Roy Lewicki, Ed Rubel, John Sanders, Tom Seymour, and Steve Ward. From the west stands the fall colors were spectacular!
—Jay Evans, 512 Winterberry Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; gjevans222@gmail.com