Class Note 1966
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
We may be three score and 10 (or 11 or 12), but the class of 1966 creative juices are still flowing.
Japanese historian and translator Bill Wilson’s 18th book (no typo), Walking the Kiso Road, about a 60-mile solo hike on a Japanese road first opened around 700 AD, has just been published. He’s got two more in the pipeline.
Bill has been recognized by the American Literary Translator’s Association as “today’s foremost translator of classic Samurai texts,” and has been called the world’s foremost expert on the warrior’s philosophy of Bushido. The foreign ministry of Japan has honored Bill for spreading knowledge of Japanese culture throughout the world (his books have been translated into 21 languages).
What gives Bill the greatest satisfaction now is watching his 11-year-old middle school son, Henry, master kendo, judo and the cello. “He’s a good kid,” Bill reports.
Bill Schaill has just published his seventh thriller, MacHugh and the Faithless Prince, a 17th-century swashbuckler that Bill says provides “an interesting view of business practices in 17th-century colonial America.”
Lewes, Delaware, resident Steve Hayes, a proud member of the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild, has published his second novel, Missing Letters, a story of addiction and its impact on family members. His first novel, Light on Dark Water, was published three years ago.
Another man of letters, Chuck Faerber, had his fifth play, Zulu Time, based on his two years as a Navy carrier pilot during Vietnam, run for five weeks with wide acclaim at the Hudson Backstage Theater in Los Angeles this past summer.
Our class newsletter co-editor, Bob Cohn, senior consumer marketing director at Bonnier Corp. (Popular Science, Field & Stream, Boating, et. al.), was awarded a prestigious 2015 Silver Apple Award from the Direct Marketing Club of New York for outstanding contributions to the growth and practice of direct, digital and data-driven marketing during a career spanning at least 25 years.
Gerry Paul retired at the end of 2014 from the New York law firm at which he had been a partner after a 43-year career practicing complex business and commercial litigation in New York. Wife Sherri still has paintings accepted for important shows in Manhattan. Now the Pauls can spend more time traveling, and with their family to boot. Witness a recent “wonderful” Alaskan cruise with son Sandy ’95, wife Leslie and their two children and daughter Amy (Penn ’99), husband Jonathan and their son.
“Nearly two years ago,” Gerry confesses, “with encouragement from classmate and former law partner Brad Stein, I joined the planning group for our 50th reunion. I have been tremendously impressed by the superb leadership and tireless efforts of Bob Serenbetz, Al Keiller, Jim Lustenader, Ben Day and others in planning what should be a memorable weekend.”
Gerry, as usual, has it right. And that memorable week is now less than eight months away. Hit the gym and start brushing up on your best Lindy moves.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com
Japanese historian and translator Bill Wilson’s 18th book (no typo), Walking the Kiso Road, about a 60-mile solo hike on a Japanese road first opened around 700 AD, has just been published. He’s got two more in the pipeline.
Bill has been recognized by the American Literary Translator’s Association as “today’s foremost translator of classic Samurai texts,” and has been called the world’s foremost expert on the warrior’s philosophy of Bushido. The foreign ministry of Japan has honored Bill for spreading knowledge of Japanese culture throughout the world (his books have been translated into 21 languages).
What gives Bill the greatest satisfaction now is watching his 11-year-old middle school son, Henry, master kendo, judo and the cello. “He’s a good kid,” Bill reports.
Bill Schaill has just published his seventh thriller, MacHugh and the Faithless Prince, a 17th-century swashbuckler that Bill says provides “an interesting view of business practices in 17th-century colonial America.”
Lewes, Delaware, resident Steve Hayes, a proud member of the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild, has published his second novel, Missing Letters, a story of addiction and its impact on family members. His first novel, Light on Dark Water, was published three years ago.
Another man of letters, Chuck Faerber, had his fifth play, Zulu Time, based on his two years as a Navy carrier pilot during Vietnam, run for five weeks with wide acclaim at the Hudson Backstage Theater in Los Angeles this past summer.
Our class newsletter co-editor, Bob Cohn, senior consumer marketing director at Bonnier Corp. (Popular Science, Field & Stream, Boating, et. al.), was awarded a prestigious 2015 Silver Apple Award from the Direct Marketing Club of New York for outstanding contributions to the growth and practice of direct, digital and data-driven marketing during a career spanning at least 25 years.
Gerry Paul retired at the end of 2014 from the New York law firm at which he had been a partner after a 43-year career practicing complex business and commercial litigation in New York. Wife Sherri still has paintings accepted for important shows in Manhattan. Now the Pauls can spend more time traveling, and with their family to boot. Witness a recent “wonderful” Alaskan cruise with son Sandy ’95, wife Leslie and their two children and daughter Amy (Penn ’99), husband Jonathan and their son.
“Nearly two years ago,” Gerry confesses, “with encouragement from classmate and former law partner Brad Stein, I joined the planning group for our 50th reunion. I have been tremendously impressed by the superb leadership and tireless efforts of Bob Serenbetz, Al Keiller, Jim Lustenader, Ben Day and others in planning what should be a memorable weekend.”
Gerry, as usual, has it right. And that memorable week is now less than eight months away. Hit the gym and start brushing up on your best Lindy moves.
—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com