Class Note 1972
Issue
January-February 2021
So, you are retired after working for more than 40 years. And then Covid-19 hits. What’s a son of Dartmouth to do? Well, Jack Manning has an answer: Buy a motorhome and explore. “I’m retired and can’t travel internationally, so I bought a 25-foot motorhome/Mercedes Sprinter, and I’m traveling the West for a month or two with my wife. The rig has a big wall slide out, which really adds a lot of useable space. We are in Utah seeing the parks now. Then Arizona, California, and up the West Coast. We are a few weeks into the adventure now. The comedy of errors we initially experienced in the operation of the Isata 3 is behind us. This is lots of fun and a true adventure for these two RV rookies.” I was hoping to see Jack in person in the Nashville area, but his son just graduated from Sewanee in May, so Jack’s trips to Nashville are over. I wonder if there’s room for a third in the Mercedes. You should see the photos he sent from the trip!
I also got a nice note from Rand Burnett. He is also retired, after 44 years of practicing law in Keene, New Hampshire. Rand lives in the small town of Westmoreland, just north of Keene, with his wife, Jayne, who is the director of the town’s public library. Their son, Adam ’18, is now at Stanford getting his doctorate in atmospheric sciences. Rand was looking forward to skiing in the winter and playing golf and sailing his sunfish in the summer, but the pandemic and some temporary health issues got in the way of that. But don’t feel too bad for Rand. He sent me a photo of his place in idyllic Westmoreland and it made me long for the beauty and serenity of New Hampshire in the fall!
The pandemic is weird enough in its own right, but Chris Brewster wrote in to report some strange happenings at his place. He has been going through his bookshelves, cleaning out some things and reading news stories, and in the process, he says, “I may have unintentionally caused the death of several fading celebrities.” Cases in point: “I read the 1967 biography Nicholas and Alexandra. I looked up the author and was surprised to see he was still alive. A week later he was dead. I saw a film on TV and recognized a young Shirley Knight, a leading character actress. Reading her bio, I was amazed at the length of her career. Three days later she was dead. I caught a reference to Don Shula in a news story and looked him up. Still going strong! A week later he was dead. We have a framed photo by John Loengard, a prominent 20th-century photographer. I checked him out. Six days later he was dead.” Yikes! Chris promised me that he would not be looking up my bio on the internet any time soon. Just sayin’.
Be well, stay strong.
—David Hetzel, 997 State Blvd., Franklin, TN 37064; dghetzel@gmail.com
I also got a nice note from Rand Burnett. He is also retired, after 44 years of practicing law in Keene, New Hampshire. Rand lives in the small town of Westmoreland, just north of Keene, with his wife, Jayne, who is the director of the town’s public library. Their son, Adam ’18, is now at Stanford getting his doctorate in atmospheric sciences. Rand was looking forward to skiing in the winter and playing golf and sailing his sunfish in the summer, but the pandemic and some temporary health issues got in the way of that. But don’t feel too bad for Rand. He sent me a photo of his place in idyllic Westmoreland and it made me long for the beauty and serenity of New Hampshire in the fall!
The pandemic is weird enough in its own right, but Chris Brewster wrote in to report some strange happenings at his place. He has been going through his bookshelves, cleaning out some things and reading news stories, and in the process, he says, “I may have unintentionally caused the death of several fading celebrities.” Cases in point: “I read the 1967 biography Nicholas and Alexandra. I looked up the author and was surprised to see he was still alive. A week later he was dead. I saw a film on TV and recognized a young Shirley Knight, a leading character actress. Reading her bio, I was amazed at the length of her career. Three days later she was dead. I caught a reference to Don Shula in a news story and looked him up. Still going strong! A week later he was dead. We have a framed photo by John Loengard, a prominent 20th-century photographer. I checked him out. Six days later he was dead.” Yikes! Chris promised me that he would not be looking up my bio on the internet any time soon. Just sayin’.
Be well, stay strong.
—David Hetzel, 997 State Blvd., Franklin, TN 37064; dghetzel@gmail.com