Class Note 1972
Issue
November-December 2025
Class Note 1972. Don Anderson reported that he is enjoying retirement, still works out several times a week and has great friends in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Boston. Don started his career with Wyeth and Pfizer and moved on to start up three medical device companies. In 1970 Don and roommate Mike Turner were playing hockey. My youngest brother, David, 10, was visiting me for a week. Don and Mike took David to a home game, gave him a helmet and a stick, and allowed him to skate with the team during warmups and sit with the team during the game.
I was recently visiting with a friend (who is the grandson of a former Vermont governor) and his grandmother, who came from Warren, New Hampshire, site of Mount Moosilauke. Robert Averill has been helping my friend with a history of Warren. Recently, I had lunch in Hanover with Merrily Gerrish and her nephew, Will ’22. Will is now headed to Harvard Law School. Merrily stays active and joined several friends for a tennis lesson from the Harvard women tennis team coach, which a friend won at a charity auction.
I spent four delightful days in Nantucket, Massachusetts, with Sandra Irving and her daughter, Sarah ’10, Tu’14. Sarah has been named to the Tuck board of overseers.
While in Nantucket I learned about the passing of Tom Kent. Tom attended Thayer and owned Whaleback Mountain Ski Area. Tom was an avid outdoorsman and very independent. I also learned of the passing of Richard Davies from Montana. Dick and Jack Manning used to ride home together. One time Dick bought a used car for $100. Jack recalled the car got them all the way home and then died in Dick’s driveway. We also lost Richard Oehler, an attorney in Seattle. Rick had an impressive career as a highly experienced advisor in complex regulatory and national security matters, holding a top-secret security clearance.
Hans Stumm reported that his grandson, Tom Pogorelec, won a $1,000 scholarship and attended a five-day conference at President Coolidge’s birthplace in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. Jim Douglas, former Vermont governor, said Tom is an impressive young man.
I sent a note to Dick White about Plymouth, Massachusetts, where Dick had ancestors arriving on the Mayflower in 1620. I learned that I am a direct descendant of John Robinson, pastor to the Pilgrims in England and Holland, who was too ill to make the trip. John Robinson is considered one of three people who formed the Congregational Church.
I recently read Northwest Passage by Ken Roberts, a 1908 graduate of Cornell. In 1934 Roberts reported he received a letter from Ernest Martin Hopkins: “It was the most touching letter I’d ever received. At the end of it, he said, with his usual reticence, that he ‘hoped’ I could find time to come to Hanover and that I’d be ‘willing to accept’ the doctorate of letters.” Upon Roberts’ passing, Dartmouth received many of his manuscripts.
—Shel Prentice, 2311 Tradition Way, #102, Naples, FL 34105; shelprentice72@gmail.com
I was recently visiting with a friend (who is the grandson of a former Vermont governor) and his grandmother, who came from Warren, New Hampshire, site of Mount Moosilauke. Robert Averill has been helping my friend with a history of Warren. Recently, I had lunch in Hanover with Merrily Gerrish and her nephew, Will ’22. Will is now headed to Harvard Law School. Merrily stays active and joined several friends for a tennis lesson from the Harvard women tennis team coach, which a friend won at a charity auction.
I spent four delightful days in Nantucket, Massachusetts, with Sandra Irving and her daughter, Sarah ’10, Tu’14. Sarah has been named to the Tuck board of overseers.
While in Nantucket I learned about the passing of Tom Kent. Tom attended Thayer and owned Whaleback Mountain Ski Area. Tom was an avid outdoorsman and very independent. I also learned of the passing of Richard Davies from Montana. Dick and Jack Manning used to ride home together. One time Dick bought a used car for $100. Jack recalled the car got them all the way home and then died in Dick’s driveway. We also lost Richard Oehler, an attorney in Seattle. Rick had an impressive career as a highly experienced advisor in complex regulatory and national security matters, holding a top-secret security clearance.
Hans Stumm reported that his grandson, Tom Pogorelec, won a $1,000 scholarship and attended a five-day conference at President Coolidge’s birthplace in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. Jim Douglas, former Vermont governor, said Tom is an impressive young man.
I sent a note to Dick White about Plymouth, Massachusetts, where Dick had ancestors arriving on the Mayflower in 1620. I learned that I am a direct descendant of John Robinson, pastor to the Pilgrims in England and Holland, who was too ill to make the trip. John Robinson is considered one of three people who formed the Congregational Church.
I recently read Northwest Passage by Ken Roberts, a 1908 graduate of Cornell. In 1934 Roberts reported he received a letter from Ernest Martin Hopkins: “It was the most touching letter I’d ever received. At the end of it, he said, with his usual reticence, that he ‘hoped’ I could find time to come to Hanover and that I’d be ‘willing to accept’ the doctorate of letters.” Upon Roberts’ passing, Dartmouth received many of his manuscripts.
—Shel Prentice, 2311 Tradition Way, #102, Naples, FL 34105; shelprentice72@gmail.com