Class Note 1960
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September-October 2026
Class Note 1960. Three classmates responded to my call for news.
TonyRoisman writes,“I compare now to what I thought, 65 years ago, would be my life today. My only thought about the future was that I wanted to be a lawyer. I would never have imagined that at 87 I would be a horse farmer living in rural Vermont. We have four equines—one Morgan mare, one mini, one miniature donkey, and one hinny. Despite the usual aches and pains my physical health is excellent as I am the main barn maintenance staff, carrying bales of hay, sacks of grain, compressed bags of wood shavings for bedding, large buckets of water, and buckets of horse residue from cleaning stalls and paddocks. Each of these items weighs about 35 to 40 pounds. The manure collection and removal turns out to be the perfect use of 60 years of litigation experience, when my opponents were large polluting corporations and federal regulatory agencies that failed to carry out their functions correctly. It’s funny how life evolves.”
ArtLaFrance writes, “My wife, Margie, and I celebrated a whirlwind tour from Maine to Michigan in May and four birthdays: two granddaughters in Maine; one 90-year-old sister in Midland, Michigan; and Margie’s 75th. All participants aged appropriately. I have had a couple of life changes. In January, after 10 years of pleasurable hard work, I announced my retirement to my Arizona Shakespeare class, Reading Shakespeare, confident they had the talent and training to continue without me. In September I resumed biweekly platelet/plasma donations with the Red Cross in Oregon and Arizona after a 34-year hiatus due to a tick bite with Lyme disease in 1992. In December we will do a trip with Road Scholar to Machu Pichu and the Galapagos—long deferred, it seems time.”
JohnGoyette is beginning his 72nd year as president of his high school class! His 70th reunion is September 23. Looks as though he’s a shoo-in for another term.
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com
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TonyRoisman writes,“I compare now to what I thought, 65 years ago, would be my life today. My only thought about the future was that I wanted to be a lawyer. I would never have imagined that at 87 I would be a horse farmer living in rural Vermont. We have four equines—one Morgan mare, one mini, one miniature donkey, and one hinny. Despite the usual aches and pains my physical health is excellent as I am the main barn maintenance staff, carrying bales of hay, sacks of grain, compressed bags of wood shavings for bedding, large buckets of water, and buckets of horse residue from cleaning stalls and paddocks. Each of these items weighs about 35 to 40 pounds. The manure collection and removal turns out to be the perfect use of 60 years of litigation experience, when my opponents were large polluting corporations and federal regulatory agencies that failed to carry out their functions correctly. It’s funny how life evolves.”
ArtLaFrance writes, “My wife, Margie, and I celebrated a whirlwind tour from Maine to Michigan in May and four birthdays: two granddaughters in Maine; one 90-year-old sister in Midland, Michigan; and Margie’s 75th. All participants aged appropriately. I have had a couple of life changes. In January, after 10 years of pleasurable hard work, I announced my retirement to my Arizona Shakespeare class, Reading Shakespeare, confident they had the talent and training to continue without me. In September I resumed biweekly platelet/plasma donations with the Red Cross in Oregon and Arizona after a 34-year hiatus due to a tick bite with Lyme disease in 1992. In December we will do a trip with Road Scholar to Machu Pichu and the Galapagos—long deferred, it seems time.”
JohnGoyette is beginning his 72nd year as president of his high school class! His 70th reunion is September 23. Looks as though he’s a shoo-in for another term.
—Sid Goldman, 78575 Avenida Ultimo, La Quinta, CA 92253; (305) 849-0475; sidgoldman@gmail.com