Class Note 1965
Issue
July-August 2024
A personal note: Since 2016 your Upper Valley classmates have met monthly for breakfast. When our meeting site closed, we relocated to the Hanover home of Marcia and Pete Frederick; in nice weather we picnic outside, in bad weather we are graciously welcomed inside. The Fredericks have just moved to a Kendal community in Pennsylvania—what to do? Brigid and I solved the problem by buying Marcia and Pete’s place, so the tradition will continue!
You may recall that the son of the late Kighoma Malima was searching for information on his father’s undergraduate life. He received a response from Jonathan Silbert, who knew both Kighoma and the late Naison Mawande very well. During their exchange Jon found that he and Kighoma, independently of each other, had both had letters published in the Class Notes of April 1986. Since that time, Jon says, “I remained on our Connecticut Board of Education (perhaps the most thankless of all elective offices!) until the governor rescued me in 1991 and nominated me for a Superior Court judgeship. I served until 2012, then returned to my old law firm, of counsel, with a practice devoted exclusively to mediation and arbitration.” He notes that he visited Richard Bernstein in Vermont to view the April solar eclipse.
Rob Overton reported, “On February 2 I was awarded the Harman Hawkins Trophy by US Sailing. The Harman Hawkins Trophy is awarded annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the sport of sailing in the field of race administration. My contribution was in the Racing Rules of Sailing as the longstanding chair of the racing rules committee and as judge and umpire in the sport of sailing.”
The theme of this DAM is books. Packing for our upcoming move, I found books authored by classmates Brian Porzak, Chick Kozloff, Philo Willetts, George Bellerose, and Mike Gonnerman and poets Glenn Currie and Mike O’Connell. My apologies to those I missed.
We have lost classmates Andy Gundlach and Damonhuri “Algis” Alkaitis. For further information, visit our class website, www.biggreen65.com.
—Bob Murphy, 7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net
You may recall that the son of the late Kighoma Malima was searching for information on his father’s undergraduate life. He received a response from Jonathan Silbert, who knew both Kighoma and the late Naison Mawande very well. During their exchange Jon found that he and Kighoma, independently of each other, had both had letters published in the Class Notes of April 1986. Since that time, Jon says, “I remained on our Connecticut Board of Education (perhaps the most thankless of all elective offices!) until the governor rescued me in 1991 and nominated me for a Superior Court judgeship. I served until 2012, then returned to my old law firm, of counsel, with a practice devoted exclusively to mediation and arbitration.” He notes that he visited Richard Bernstein in Vermont to view the April solar eclipse.
Rob Overton reported, “On February 2 I was awarded the Harman Hawkins Trophy by US Sailing. The Harman Hawkins Trophy is awarded annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the sport of sailing in the field of race administration. My contribution was in the Racing Rules of Sailing as the longstanding chair of the racing rules committee and as judge and umpire in the sport of sailing.”
The theme of this DAM is books. Packing for our upcoming move, I found books authored by classmates Brian Porzak, Chick Kozloff, Philo Willetts, George Bellerose, and Mike Gonnerman and poets Glenn Currie and Mike O’Connell. My apologies to those I missed.
We have lost classmates Andy Gundlach and Damonhuri “Algis” Alkaitis. For further information, visit our class website, www.biggreen65.com.
—Bob Murphy, 7 Willow Spring Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-5589; murph65nh@comcast.net