Class Note 1942
Issue
January-February 2021
As I begin this column we are eight days from the most monumental election of our times. When you read this in December we all will know its outcome. Forgive me for making the column personal.
On my section of Manhattan there is an early polling station. On day one I ran into a neighbor who had waited three and a half hours. Just yesterday a neighbor waited two hours until she was selected by a poll watcher to go to the head of the line due to an apparent physical disability. I too am a cane person, having just undergone surgery. Friends have convinced me to request the same.
Early this month I received a letter introducing the class to our two 1942 scholars—Abubakar O. Kasule ’21 from Ryadh, Saudi Arabia, and Emily J. Zurcher ’21 from Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. If any of you would like to reach these students directly, I can provide contact info.
We have or will have by the time you read this two classmates who will turn 100—Bob Gale, who celebrated in December 2019, and Jon Mendes, who turned 100 November 3. The latter had signed up for the New York Marathon—now canceled due to the pandemic. I am wondering how many classmates are 100 today? Please get in touch with me so I can feature you in the next column.
Just spoke with Bob Gale, who is working on yet another book about the author Walter Noble Burns, who wrote about Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and the O.K. Corral, among others. Bob just completed Frederick Remington. I think this is book No. 67 at age 100. He says it is what keeps him going.
A brief conversation with Stu Finch tells me a story of Irenee Du Pont, who brought a Cadillac to college freshman year. It seems he drove it around campus for fun. I hear he still has that Cadillac today—and keeps it in mint condition. Stu is still working on getting a putting green at his assisted living complex, repairs, and a way to play poker safely.
Jon Mendes reports he will hold a Zoom 100th birthday party November 3 with 25 members of his family stressing unification of family back 1,000 years. Later he will do one with friends. His health is 100 percent and he goes to the park every day.
My request goes out again: Please forward your news about family and what you are doing or I will have to talk about myself.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; caproni@aol.com
On my section of Manhattan there is an early polling station. On day one I ran into a neighbor who had waited three and a half hours. Just yesterday a neighbor waited two hours until she was selected by a poll watcher to go to the head of the line due to an apparent physical disability. I too am a cane person, having just undergone surgery. Friends have convinced me to request the same.
Early this month I received a letter introducing the class to our two 1942 scholars—Abubakar O. Kasule ’21 from Ryadh, Saudi Arabia, and Emily J. Zurcher ’21 from Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. If any of you would like to reach these students directly, I can provide contact info.
We have or will have by the time you read this two classmates who will turn 100—Bob Gale, who celebrated in December 2019, and Jon Mendes, who turned 100 November 3. The latter had signed up for the New York Marathon—now canceled due to the pandemic. I am wondering how many classmates are 100 today? Please get in touch with me so I can feature you in the next column.
Just spoke with Bob Gale, who is working on yet another book about the author Walter Noble Burns, who wrote about Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and the O.K. Corral, among others. Bob just completed Frederick Remington. I think this is book No. 67 at age 100. He says it is what keeps him going.
A brief conversation with Stu Finch tells me a story of Irenee Du Pont, who brought a Cadillac to college freshman year. It seems he drove it around campus for fun. I hear he still has that Cadillac today—and keeps it in mint condition. Stu is still working on getting a putting green at his assisted living complex, repairs, and a way to play poker safely.
Jon Mendes reports he will hold a Zoom 100th birthday party November 3 with 25 members of his family stressing unification of family back 1,000 years. Later he will do one with friends. His health is 100 percent and he goes to the park every day.
My request goes out again: Please forward your news about family and what you are doing or I will have to talk about myself.
—Joanna Caproni, 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York, NY 10021; caproni@aol.com