Class Note 1967
Issue
Jul - Aug 2016
Our authors have been notably productive. Ed Gray of Lyme, New Hampshire, notes that Pegasus Books has put Left in the Wind: The Roanoke Journal of Emme Merrimoth on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In this fictional work Emme Merrimoth—one of the actual colonists of Roanoke—recounts the harrowing journey that brought the colonists to the New World.
Rabbi Nesanel (Stephen Mark) Kasnett of Brooklyn, New York, is the founding director of Agudath Israel of America’s Washington, D.C., office. Nesanel has served for more than two decades as a senior editor and author at Artscroll/Mesorah publications, where he has worked on the English Shas, Ramban on the Torah and, currently, its Midrash Rabbah. He is the senior editor and author of the Schottenstein Daf Yomi Edition Talmud Bavli. Having learned for many years in yeshiva and New York (Bais Hatalmud and Mirrer), Nesanel earned a J.D. from the Cordozo School of Law.
Michael Seely of Dorset, Vermont, serves as chairman of HSBC funds. He served briefly as the chairman of the Vermont Republican Party. A graduate from New York University’s graduate business school, Mike has extensive financial and political experience. His work, Turning Point: Saving Our Kids’ Future and Our Own, documents how government interventions have ballooned national debt, thwarted growth, killed job creation, crippled the economy and fanned a growing cynicism about our future. The website www.tinfl.org offers additional commentary and reviews. Philip K. Curtis of Atlanta has published an anthology of poems titled the Curtis Collection and is working on getting it available on Amazon. Richard Clapp, professor emeritus of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health and adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, was interviewed on New Hampshire Public Radio about a review of perfluorooctanoic acid research. Dick remains active analyzing data related to environmental causes of cancer and other diseases.
Regretfully, I have another passing to report. Ernest Terry Foss III of Medford, New Jersey, died January 14. He majored in sociology and was president and photography editor of the Aegis, president of Camera Club, Green Book editor, Green Key member and active in Ledyard Canoe Club. During the Vietnam War Terry was a conscientious objector, supporting his Quaker views. As a staff photographer for the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia, he took exceptional photos. An avid kayaker, motorcyclist and outdoorsman, Terry enjoyed summering in Maine with his wife, Roberta. He is predeceased by his parents, Ernest Jr. ’38, DMS’38, and Jane.
The reunion planning committee continues to assemble a great program for next June. Look at the class webpage for more details. Submit your essays for the 50th reunion yearbook to share what you have done over the years since graduation and how it shapes what you plan to do in your future. Pass the word to send your stories for the yearbook ASAP. Stay well!
Keep me posted.
—Dave Mangelsdorff, 13502 Barsan Road, San Antonio, TX 78249; (210) 344-0942; dmangels@idworld.net
Rabbi Nesanel (Stephen Mark) Kasnett of Brooklyn, New York, is the founding director of Agudath Israel of America’s Washington, D.C., office. Nesanel has served for more than two decades as a senior editor and author at Artscroll/Mesorah publications, where he has worked on the English Shas, Ramban on the Torah and, currently, its Midrash Rabbah. He is the senior editor and author of the Schottenstein Daf Yomi Edition Talmud Bavli. Having learned for many years in yeshiva and New York (Bais Hatalmud and Mirrer), Nesanel earned a J.D. from the Cordozo School of Law.
Michael Seely of Dorset, Vermont, serves as chairman of HSBC funds. He served briefly as the chairman of the Vermont Republican Party. A graduate from New York University’s graduate business school, Mike has extensive financial and political experience. His work, Turning Point: Saving Our Kids’ Future and Our Own, documents how government interventions have ballooned national debt, thwarted growth, killed job creation, crippled the economy and fanned a growing cynicism about our future. The website www.tinfl.org offers additional commentary and reviews. Philip K. Curtis of Atlanta has published an anthology of poems titled the Curtis Collection and is working on getting it available on Amazon. Richard Clapp, professor emeritus of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health and adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, was interviewed on New Hampshire Public Radio about a review of perfluorooctanoic acid research. Dick remains active analyzing data related to environmental causes of cancer and other diseases.
Regretfully, I have another passing to report. Ernest Terry Foss III of Medford, New Jersey, died January 14. He majored in sociology and was president and photography editor of the Aegis, president of Camera Club, Green Book editor, Green Key member and active in Ledyard Canoe Club. During the Vietnam War Terry was a conscientious objector, supporting his Quaker views. As a staff photographer for the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia, he took exceptional photos. An avid kayaker, motorcyclist and outdoorsman, Terry enjoyed summering in Maine with his wife, Roberta. He is predeceased by his parents, Ernest Jr. ’38, DMS’38, and Jane.
The reunion planning committee continues to assemble a great program for next June. Look at the class webpage for more details. Submit your essays for the 50th reunion yearbook to share what you have done over the years since graduation and how it shapes what you plan to do in your future. Pass the word to send your stories for the yearbook ASAP. Stay well!
Keep me posted.
—Dave Mangelsdorff, 13502 Barsan Road, San Antonio, TX 78249; (210) 344-0942; dmangels@idworld.net