Class Note 1972
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
Our hats are off to Fuzzy Thurston and his 45th cluster reunion committee members for planning our successful weekend in Hanover in late June, along with the classes of 1970 and 1971! With perfect weather, the campus was looking better than ever.
Almost 150 members of our class and their family members participated in a wide range of activities, starting on the Hanover golf course on Thursday and featuring evenings at our tent next to the gym and around the campus with fellow 72s David Elseroad, Paul Tyson, Wayne Young, Greg Yadley, Neal Treaven, Larry Elia, Don Fennessey, John Burke, Peter Rufleth, Craig Bentley, Jeff Pulis, Peter Benziger, Jim Birchall, Lynn Rowe, Mike Sack, Ted Lippman, Loon Stitham, Glenn Harder, Fred Crossman, Rocky Rockwell, Dan Cooperman, Owen Kelly, John Musser, Lawrie Lieberman, Bill Aydelott, Andy Harrison, Buddy Lynch, Dennis Cullen, Jesse Spikes, Jack Manning and so many more! More ’72s were spotted at the Beta House on Webster Avenue on Friday afternoon posing for photos, including Marc Josephson, Vic Stibolt and Bill Mills.
Friday’s lobster dinner had some of us, such as Jon Einsidler, sporting our bibs. Saturday’s buffet dinner included outgoing class president Bill Schur as MC recounting the $66,000 we donated to several worthy causes, including veterans returning to college, a program led by Joe Davis, and a new interactive desk and chairs for the Hood Museum that is being renovated; a stirring summary by Bev Love when he helped Katrina victims; former athletics and admissions dean Dick Jaeger’59 taking us back to our acceptance in 1968-69; and incoming class president Bill Price thanking all eight of our earlier presidents, including Peter Broberg and Peter Heed. Bill thenstarted the ball rolling for our 50th in 2022 by calling for us to reach out to the 100 or so classmates without phone or email contacts (more on this in future columns and in our newsletters) and to the other 500 classmates unable to come to the 45th reunion so that we can get 300 of us “back home” in six years.
Bill will be joined by the other class officers Marc Josephson (vice president), Bill Roberts (newsletter editor and webmaster), Chip Carstensen (treasurer), Shel Prentice (head agent), and Gary Dicovitsky (major gifts and bequests), Fuzzy Thurston (reunions) and Dave Hetzel (secretary). Bill will set up a new executive committee, so look for news and updates!
Thirty classmates and family members concluded the reunion with a solemn memorial service at Rollins Chapel for 56 of our brothers who have passed away led by Bill Roberts and Bill Schur and assisted by Andy Harrison, Paul Tyson, Don Fennessey and Bill Price.
As your new class secretary, I’m hungry for news about you and our classmates, so take a minute and send me three lines about you or someone you know. Now more than ever, we need to stay in touch with each other.
—Dave Hetzel, 5 Chestnut St., Windham, NH 03087; dghetzel@gmail.com
Almost 150 members of our class and their family members participated in a wide range of activities, starting on the Hanover golf course on Thursday and featuring evenings at our tent next to the gym and around the campus with fellow 72s David Elseroad, Paul Tyson, Wayne Young, Greg Yadley, Neal Treaven, Larry Elia, Don Fennessey, John Burke, Peter Rufleth, Craig Bentley, Jeff Pulis, Peter Benziger, Jim Birchall, Lynn Rowe, Mike Sack, Ted Lippman, Loon Stitham, Glenn Harder, Fred Crossman, Rocky Rockwell, Dan Cooperman, Owen Kelly, John Musser, Lawrie Lieberman, Bill Aydelott, Andy Harrison, Buddy Lynch, Dennis Cullen, Jesse Spikes, Jack Manning and so many more! More ’72s were spotted at the Beta House on Webster Avenue on Friday afternoon posing for photos, including Marc Josephson, Vic Stibolt and Bill Mills.
Friday’s lobster dinner had some of us, such as Jon Einsidler, sporting our bibs. Saturday’s buffet dinner included outgoing class president Bill Schur as MC recounting the $66,000 we donated to several worthy causes, including veterans returning to college, a program led by Joe Davis, and a new interactive desk and chairs for the Hood Museum that is being renovated; a stirring summary by Bev Love when he helped Katrina victims; former athletics and admissions dean Dick Jaeger’59 taking us back to our acceptance in 1968-69; and incoming class president Bill Price thanking all eight of our earlier presidents, including Peter Broberg and Peter Heed. Bill thenstarted the ball rolling for our 50th in 2022 by calling for us to reach out to the 100 or so classmates without phone or email contacts (more on this in future columns and in our newsletters) and to the other 500 classmates unable to come to the 45th reunion so that we can get 300 of us “back home” in six years.
Bill will be joined by the other class officers Marc Josephson (vice president), Bill Roberts (newsletter editor and webmaster), Chip Carstensen (treasurer), Shel Prentice (head agent), and Gary Dicovitsky (major gifts and bequests), Fuzzy Thurston (reunions) and Dave Hetzel (secretary). Bill will set up a new executive committee, so look for news and updates!
Thirty classmates and family members concluded the reunion with a solemn memorial service at Rollins Chapel for 56 of our brothers who have passed away led by Bill Roberts and Bill Schur and assisted by Andy Harrison, Paul Tyson, Don Fennessey and Bill Price.
As your new class secretary, I’m hungry for news about you and our classmates, so take a minute and send me three lines about you or someone you know. Now more than ever, we need to stay in touch with each other.
—Dave Hetzel, 5 Chestnut St., Windham, NH 03087; dghetzel@gmail.com