Class Note 1962
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July-August 2026
Class Note 1962. Defying the odds: Mazel tov to Arja and Alan Rapoport,flying to Rome, where it all began (romance lives!), to celebrate their 60th anniversary of connubial bliss. Alan writes: “The odds of our meeting in a tavola calda in Rome when we were students, staying in touch for a year, getting engaged during our fifth reunion in Hanover, and getting married shortly afterward were low.”
On a personal note, Elizabeth and I recently completed a 10-day circular driving tour of New Zealand’s South Island. Departing from Christchurch, we crossed over the stunning “Southern Alps” (aka “Middle Earth” in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies), then down the west coast to Queensland and back up the east coast to Christchurch. We stopped for a helicopter tour over two glaciers; several museums; many charming towns; a Chinese gold mining camp; frequent pauses for photographs of breathtaking lake, mountain, and coastal scenery; and a tour of the meticulously restored Edwardian home (now a popular bed and breakfast) in Waimate, where Jim Blair’s better half, Wendy, was raised. A surprising number of classmates, most recently Alan Dynner and Craig Dorman,havereported making a similar circuit a while ago.
Speaking of the Blairs, Jim reports that the Irwin Kramer ’62 Dinner Society recently gathered in Ramsey, New Jersey. Present were Rozanne and Ed Goldstein, Jeannie and Rusty Hayes, Ross Burkhart and Elaine Osterhoudt, Dorothy and Frank Kehl and son Doug, Candy Funke, Elaine and Bernie Jacobs, and Jim and Wendy Blair. Irwin started this quarterly tradition about 15 years ago, and it was such a good idea that it has survived his death in 2021.
Professor emeritus of cardiology at the University of Virginia George Beller, M.D.,and a landscape and wildlife photographer since 2012, attending a photography seminar in Charleston, South Carolina, visited Anita and Colin Harley at their home, followed by dinner at The Ordinary. Colin observed: “George is quite the photographer as the link reveals: www.georgebellerphotography.com.”
I regret to inform you of the deaths of Harry Skilton Jr. of Philadelphia on February 11 and Robert “Bob” B. Needham of Andover, Massachusetts, on March 10.
—David L. Smith, 1810 Columbine Pl., Sun City Center, FL 33573; (775) 870-2354; david@ davidlsmith.com
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On a personal note, Elizabeth and I recently completed a 10-day circular driving tour of New Zealand’s South Island. Departing from Christchurch, we crossed over the stunning “Southern Alps” (aka “Middle Earth” in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies), then down the west coast to Queensland and back up the east coast to Christchurch. We stopped for a helicopter tour over two glaciers; several museums; many charming towns; a Chinese gold mining camp; frequent pauses for photographs of breathtaking lake, mountain, and coastal scenery; and a tour of the meticulously restored Edwardian home (now a popular bed and breakfast) in Waimate, where Jim Blair’s better half, Wendy, was raised. A surprising number of classmates, most recently Alan Dynner and Craig Dorman,havereported making a similar circuit a while ago.
Speaking of the Blairs, Jim reports that the Irwin Kramer ’62 Dinner Society recently gathered in Ramsey, New Jersey. Present were Rozanne and Ed Goldstein, Jeannie and Rusty Hayes, Ross Burkhart and Elaine Osterhoudt, Dorothy and Frank Kehl and son Doug, Candy Funke, Elaine and Bernie Jacobs, and Jim and Wendy Blair. Irwin started this quarterly tradition about 15 years ago, and it was such a good idea that it has survived his death in 2021.
Professor emeritus of cardiology at the University of Virginia George Beller, M.D.,and a landscape and wildlife photographer since 2012, attending a photography seminar in Charleston, South Carolina, visited Anita and Colin Harley at their home, followed by dinner at The Ordinary. Colin observed: “George is quite the photographer as the link reveals: www.georgebellerphotography.com.”
I regret to inform you of the deaths of Harry Skilton Jr. of Philadelphia on February 11 and Robert “Bob” B. Needham of Andover, Massachusetts, on March 10.
—David L. Smith, 1810 Columbine Pl., Sun City Center, FL 33573; (775) 870-2354; david@ davidlsmith.com