Class Note 1976
Issue
Happy New Year! I’d like to first thank a number of classmates who responded to this scribe, who had nothing, while facing the deadline. Quick responses from Martha Johnson Beattie, Peter Cowan, Rob Swenson, Marty Doyle, Cathy Joyce Brennan, Fern Bennett Phillips and Wendy Simila Snickenberger helped me out immeasurably. Of primary importance from Martha is word that the voting period for the College trustee position will be from March 10 to April 7 and will be available online. Information is available at www.voxthevote.org to learn about the candidates, John Replogle ’88 and Morton Kondracke ’60. Historically, our class has had poor showings in such votes, so let’s be heard!
Cathy Brennan relayed that she had dinner with Martha and Jim Beattie and Peter and Nancy Kepes Jeton in Boston. She also has contact with Sara Hoagland Hunter, who is still writing prolifically. Cathy and Jack Brennan’s oldest son Will is getting married in May to a fellow Notre Dame classmate.
Fern is still in Maine and her oldest daughter is doing graduate work in public health at UConn and her other daughter is at UVM, where she captained the lacrosse team. She reports that Steve Papai and his wife, Cameron, bought a house in Cooperstown, New York, so they may be spending more time in the East. They won’t be far from Oneonta, where John Gleason is the proud owner of the Oneonta Tigers (per Pistol, the only team in the minor leagues in which beer isn’t sold in the ballpark—go figure). Also from Fern, Steve Routhier was seen in the Bay Area and Peter Dawkins has retired from the investment analyst line and is still in the Mississauga, Ontario, area.
Wendy reports that she has had some contact with the former Jan Hudson, who spent several terms at Dartmouth on exchange from UCSD, and that Jan has one son in college and another who will be off to college next fall.
Marty recently had dinner on the north side of Chicago with Jeff “Craz” Hillebrand and King Poor. Craz continues as a senior executive at a north shore hospital while King is a partner in a major Loop law firm. They discussed families (King is married to Hope Stevens Poor), dodgy class acquaintances, raised a glass to toast the “Grabber,” the late Mark Landsberger, while King told of his efforts to sustain a tree planted in Mark’s name on Tuck Mall.
Pistol’s response generated contact from Rob Swenson, who is retired from 20 years in the airline business. He splits time between Anchorage, Alaska, where he is active in an airport business along with another Alaskan business with his sons, and south Florida, where he manages to catch up with Bob Hurst and wife Cornelia. They split time between Massachusetts and Florida since Bob’s retirement from the Coast Guard.
There will be more as both Martha and Pistol filled my pouch. Please don’t leave the job to others. Your friends do care and are interested. Please write.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, jayjosselyn@hotmail.com
Mar - Apr 2010
Happy New Year! I’d like to first thank a number of classmates who responded to this scribe, who had nothing, while facing the deadline. Quick responses from Martha Johnson Beattie, Peter Cowan, Rob Swenson, Marty Doyle, Cathy Joyce Brennan, Fern Bennett Phillips and Wendy Simila Snickenberger helped me out immeasurably. Of primary importance from Martha is word that the voting period for the College trustee position will be from March 10 to April 7 and will be available online. Information is available at www.voxthevote.org to learn about the candidates, John Replogle ’88 and Morton Kondracke ’60. Historically, our class has had poor showings in such votes, so let’s be heard!
Cathy Brennan relayed that she had dinner with Martha and Jim Beattie and Peter and Nancy Kepes Jeton in Boston. She also has contact with Sara Hoagland Hunter, who is still writing prolifically. Cathy and Jack Brennan’s oldest son Will is getting married in May to a fellow Notre Dame classmate.
Fern is still in Maine and her oldest daughter is doing graduate work in public health at UConn and her other daughter is at UVM, where she captained the lacrosse team. She reports that Steve Papai and his wife, Cameron, bought a house in Cooperstown, New York, so they may be spending more time in the East. They won’t be far from Oneonta, where John Gleason is the proud owner of the Oneonta Tigers (per Pistol, the only team in the minor leagues in which beer isn’t sold in the ballpark—go figure). Also from Fern, Steve Routhier was seen in the Bay Area and Peter Dawkins has retired from the investment analyst line and is still in the Mississauga, Ontario, area.
Wendy reports that she has had some contact with the former Jan Hudson, who spent several terms at Dartmouth on exchange from UCSD, and that Jan has one son in college and another who will be off to college next fall.
Marty recently had dinner on the north side of Chicago with Jeff “Craz” Hillebrand and King Poor. Craz continues as a senior executive at a north shore hospital while King is a partner in a major Loop law firm. They discussed families (King is married to Hope Stevens Poor), dodgy class acquaintances, raised a glass to toast the “Grabber,” the late Mark Landsberger, while King told of his efforts to sustain a tree planted in Mark’s name on Tuck Mall.
Pistol’s response generated contact from Rob Swenson, who is retired from 20 years in the airline business. He splits time between Anchorage, Alaska, where he is active in an airport business along with another Alaskan business with his sons, and south Florida, where he manages to catch up with Bob Hurst and wife Cornelia. They split time between Massachusetts and Florida since Bob’s retirement from the Coast Guard.
There will be more as both Martha and Pistol filled my pouch. Please don’t leave the job to others. Your friends do care and are interested. Please write.
—Jay Josselyn, 106 Yukon Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, jayjosselyn@hotmail.com