Class Note 1951
Issue
May-June 2024
Jean and I are among the very lucky oldsters. We enjoy time with our growing family—we will welcome two more great-grandchildren in 2024. Our senior living community, the Mather, is full of interesting, fun, thoughtful old folks. Living just a stone’s throw from Northwestern University, we are able to attend lectures with stimulating faculty members and enjoy theater, music, and Big Ten sports. After life-changing heart surgery last year, I’m back to long walks and workouts in the Mather’s onsite fitness center. Life is good!
Also enjoying senior living: Al and Joan Brout, still in White Plains, New York, after selling their California winter home; Joe Spound, close to his roots in Needham, Massachusetts, and reporting varying degrees of good health (“I am glad for what works well, with good memories of that which doesn’t”); and Betty Sutton, still in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, close to family and not far from the house she and Jack lived in for many years.
Al and Fern Moses, on the other hand, are still in their Georgetown (D.C.) home, “but making regular visits to Maine and Israel. We were in Tel Aviv on October 7 when Hamas attacked.”
Reporting in regularly are two of our few remaining classmates still in Illinois: Herb Knight (St. Charles) and Herb Shay (Galena). Herb Shay is a voracious reader and a rare letter-writer; his regular updates and book recommendations are a pleasure.
Bob Damon, another Chicago-area lifer, now spends part of the year in Cypress, Texas, near family.
Our class Zoom gatherings just keep getting more and more interesting! (Joining in is a piece of cake; just ask a grandchild to help you click on the email link). Most recently, four members of the ’51 family still living in the Hanover area (Mike Choukas, Lu Martin, Henry Nachman, and Barbara Hall)reported on changes in the College and the community since our day.
Sadly, seven more of our classmates have died: Will Rowe, Chuck Nadler, Ted Corsones, Chris Fuller, Pete Stien, Bill Stout, and Jack Weingarten. To read their obituaries go to dartgo/51obits.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com
Also enjoying senior living: Al and Joan Brout, still in White Plains, New York, after selling their California winter home; Joe Spound, close to his roots in Needham, Massachusetts, and reporting varying degrees of good health (“I am glad for what works well, with good memories of that which doesn’t”); and Betty Sutton, still in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, close to family and not far from the house she and Jack lived in for many years.
Al and Fern Moses, on the other hand, are still in their Georgetown (D.C.) home, “but making regular visits to Maine and Israel. We were in Tel Aviv on October 7 when Hamas attacked.”
Reporting in regularly are two of our few remaining classmates still in Illinois: Herb Knight (St. Charles) and Herb Shay (Galena). Herb Shay is a voracious reader and a rare letter-writer; his regular updates and book recommendations are a pleasure.
Bob Damon, another Chicago-area lifer, now spends part of the year in Cypress, Texas, near family.
Our class Zoom gatherings just keep getting more and more interesting! (Joining in is a piece of cake; just ask a grandchild to help you click on the email link). Most recently, four members of the ’51 family still living in the Hanover area (Mike Choukas, Lu Martin, Henry Nachman, and Barbara Hall)reported on changes in the College and the community since our day.
Sadly, seven more of our classmates have died: Will Rowe, Chuck Nadler, Ted Corsones, Chris Fuller, Pete Stien, Bill Stout, and Jack Weingarten. To read their obituaries go to dartgo/51obits.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com