Class Note 1951
Issue
January-February 2022
Thoughts on our recent 70th reunion: This was our best reunion—ever!
Fifty-six of us were back, including Howie and Nat Allen, Margery Atherton, Cliff Barney (making his first visit to Hanover since our graduation), Sarah Breed, Al Brout, Jim Cavanagh, Mike Choukas, Marcia Clayton, Jack and Carole Giegerich, Howard Glickstein, Barbara Hall, Giles and Jane Hamlin, Pete and Jean Henderson, Ed Landau, Shirley Langworthy, Bill and Ki Leffler, Doris Lindner, Sandy and Gebby McDonald, Peirce McKee, Dotty Mori, Al Moses, Lu Martin, Henry and Amy Nachman, Peggy Reed, Charlie Russell, Buck and Mary Scott, Jack Skewes, Joe Spound, Jack and Liz Weingarten, and Art Worden. Nine Dartmouth alumni “kids” accompanying their parents were great additions.
We all enjoyed a marvelous sense of friendship, celebration, connectedness, and closure. This was the perfect capstone to our 74 years together. Perennial reunion chair Henry Nachman served up a just-right combination of unhurried activities, informal visiting among longtime friends, and relaxation (including lots of time in the rocking chairs on the inn’s front porch). A weekend highlight was the presentation of Spirit of ’51 awards to Jim Cavanagh and Howard Glickstein. Both were warmly applauded for their contributions to our class and to the broader world. Sixteen past recipients or widows of past recipients were on hand. Rabbi Bill Leffler led a moving remembrance of 107 classmates who have died since our last reunion five years ago. Sadly, we have learned since the reunion of seven more deaths: Chip Blomgren, Chuck Eccles, Linc Fenno, Ed Landau, Wusan Lin, Len Smith, and Bob Wilbee.
In heartening news, it was a joy to see Mike Choukas and Barbara Hall, each alone since the death of their ’51 spouse, walking hand-in-hand as a very-much-in-love couple, symbolizing the ongoing hopes and joys of the ’51 family. And it was good to see Henry Nachman (three weeks after a stroke) and Jack Weingarten (three days after heart surgery!) on hand and looking fit. Al Brout stepped up as our new class president. Retiring president Jack Giegerich received well-deserved praise for his leadership since 2016.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com
Fifty-six of us were back, including Howie and Nat Allen, Margery Atherton, Cliff Barney (making his first visit to Hanover since our graduation), Sarah Breed, Al Brout, Jim Cavanagh, Mike Choukas, Marcia Clayton, Jack and Carole Giegerich, Howard Glickstein, Barbara Hall, Giles and Jane Hamlin, Pete and Jean Henderson, Ed Landau, Shirley Langworthy, Bill and Ki Leffler, Doris Lindner, Sandy and Gebby McDonald, Peirce McKee, Dotty Mori, Al Moses, Lu Martin, Henry and Amy Nachman, Peggy Reed, Charlie Russell, Buck and Mary Scott, Jack Skewes, Joe Spound, Jack and Liz Weingarten, and Art Worden. Nine Dartmouth alumni “kids” accompanying their parents were great additions.
We all enjoyed a marvelous sense of friendship, celebration, connectedness, and closure. This was the perfect capstone to our 74 years together. Perennial reunion chair Henry Nachman served up a just-right combination of unhurried activities, informal visiting among longtime friends, and relaxation (including lots of time in the rocking chairs on the inn’s front porch). A weekend highlight was the presentation of Spirit of ’51 awards to Jim Cavanagh and Howard Glickstein. Both were warmly applauded for their contributions to our class and to the broader world. Sixteen past recipients or widows of past recipients were on hand. Rabbi Bill Leffler led a moving remembrance of 107 classmates who have died since our last reunion five years ago. Sadly, we have learned since the reunion of seven more deaths: Chip Blomgren, Chuck Eccles, Linc Fenno, Ed Landau, Wusan Lin, Len Smith, and Bob Wilbee.
In heartening news, it was a joy to see Mike Choukas and Barbara Hall, each alone since the death of their ’51 spouse, walking hand-in-hand as a very-much-in-love couple, symbolizing the ongoing hopes and joys of the ’51 family. And it was good to see Henry Nachman (three weeks after a stroke) and Jack Weingarten (three days after heart surgery!) on hand and looking fit. Al Brout stepped up as our new class president. Retiring president Jack Giegerich received well-deserved praise for his leadership since 2016.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com