Class Note 1968
Issue
After the last column musing about graduation 2010, back to news, some new, some old. Watch for a re-release of a book called Take Ivy, a Japanese book/photo album from 1965. A photographer visited all of the Ivies to record, in candid photos, the collegiate style of dress, and it became an influential fashion hit in Japan. Now translated to English, editors are looking to see if some of the then stylish undergrads can be identified. I found Ed Heald right away, but there may be many more of us in those pictures. Or not, since we were pretty pea green at the time and at the bottom of the food chain in 1965. The book is available on Amazon. Joe Leeper wrote that he retired in May of 2009 after 38 years at Humboldt State University, where he was in the geography department. He served as chair for 26 of his years there. He misses the students, most of the faculty, but not the constant downer of California budget crises. He says he is still waiting for a call from Tony Abruzzo, and looks forward to seeing Chuck Woodworth and Mike Lenehan at this fall’s second annual golf outing at Bandon Dunes in Oregon. Still time to sign up, for any late walk-ons, by the way. Clark Wadlow is another recent retiree (I sense a trend here). But if anything he sounds busier then when employed: travel with Vicki (biking in Italy, travel to Alaska) and handfuls of grandchildren. Roger Lenke wrote, prompted by his senior in high school son Michael’s visit to Dartmouth. Roger is not quite sure how to fill in the application, as he (Roger) didn’t actually get a degree from Dartmouth—he left in year three to go right to medical school in New York. After Columbia and the Air Force he entered academic medicine, at assorted spots sprinkled across the country, and is now semi-retired (or semi-unemployed in wife Joanne’s words). I told Roger: Once a ’68, always a ’68, and his son is therefore a legacy. Good luck, Michael! Roger Witten sees Alan Thorndike from time to time, as they serve on a nonprofit board in Stowe, Vermont. In the past Roger has seen Ric Gruder, Dave Cooperberg and Bill Kolasky over lunch (not all at once), and Bill Adler and his wife dropped in for a visit. Daughter Wendy ’96 and her husband, Andrew Tannenbaum ’97, have two kids and daughter Kate (Emory ’00) was expecting her first child when Roger’s letter was written. Later this October Joe Nathan Wright, Bill Rich, Dan Hedges and Bear Everett are organizing a mini-reunion in Houston, Texas, for a dinner with a focus on building momentum for our 50th reunion gift to support the freshman trips. Hope your fall is off to a good start, and would love to hear from you.
—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu
Nov - Dec 2010
After the last column musing about graduation 2010, back to news, some new, some old. Watch for a re-release of a book called Take Ivy, a Japanese book/photo album from 1965. A photographer visited all of the Ivies to record, in candid photos, the collegiate style of dress, and it became an influential fashion hit in Japan. Now translated to English, editors are looking to see if some of the then stylish undergrads can be identified. I found Ed Heald right away, but there may be many more of us in those pictures. Or not, since we were pretty pea green at the time and at the bottom of the food chain in 1965. The book is available on Amazon. Joe Leeper wrote that he retired in May of 2009 after 38 years at Humboldt State University, where he was in the geography department. He served as chair for 26 of his years there. He misses the students, most of the faculty, but not the constant downer of California budget crises. He says he is still waiting for a call from Tony Abruzzo, and looks forward to seeing Chuck Woodworth and Mike Lenehan at this fall’s second annual golf outing at Bandon Dunes in Oregon. Still time to sign up, for any late walk-ons, by the way. Clark Wadlow is another recent retiree (I sense a trend here). But if anything he sounds busier then when employed: travel with Vicki (biking in Italy, travel to Alaska) and handfuls of grandchildren. Roger Lenke wrote, prompted by his senior in high school son Michael’s visit to Dartmouth. Roger is not quite sure how to fill in the application, as he (Roger) didn’t actually get a degree from Dartmouth—he left in year three to go right to medical school in New York. After Columbia and the Air Force he entered academic medicine, at assorted spots sprinkled across the country, and is now semi-retired (or semi-unemployed in wife Joanne’s words). I told Roger: Once a ’68, always a ’68, and his son is therefore a legacy. Good luck, Michael! Roger Witten sees Alan Thorndike from time to time, as they serve on a nonprofit board in Stowe, Vermont. In the past Roger has seen Ric Gruder, Dave Cooperberg and Bill Kolasky over lunch (not all at once), and Bill Adler and his wife dropped in for a visit. Daughter Wendy ’96 and her husband, Andrew Tannenbaum ’97, have two kids and daughter Kate (Emory ’00) was expecting her first child when Roger’s letter was written. Later this October Joe Nathan Wright, Bill Rich, Dan Hedges and Bear Everett are organizing a mini-reunion in Houston, Texas, for a dinner with a focus on building momentum for our 50th reunion gift to support the freshman trips. Hope your fall is off to a good start, and would love to hear from you.
—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu