Mark your calendars. Class of ’54’s 60th reunion will be held on June 9-12, 2014. The reunion committee—which consists of Don Berlin, Rick Hartman, Dana Low, John Fenn, Dick Page, Shelly Woolf, Jim Tofias, Dick Barker, Tom Kelsey, Dan McCarthy, Lo-Yi Chan and Herb Hillman—has started planning. Stay connected and join us at reunion.


Congratulations to Shelly Woolf and his team for their great work on the’54 donation to the College Fund. They raised $313,663 (125 percent of the class goal) and led all non-reunion classes with 78.6-percent participation (41 new donors). Well done!


In 2002, thanks to the efforts of Jay Davis, the Sanborn House Class of ’54 Fund was established in the English department. Jay approached the 51 ’54s who had been English majors for help in establishing this fund. Many came forward. In 2012 two students were granted funds to support their work at the Provincetown (Massachusetts) Fine Arts Work Center during the summer of 2012. The students participated in a poetry workshop there. In addition another student was awarded funds to attend a festival workshop at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, during the summer of 2012. During this year the fund enabled the English department to fund a new student online publication. The publication, 40 Towns, now has more than 13,000 readers. The site and individual stories have received favorable comments from editors, writers and producers from The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. You can read 40 Towns at www.40towns.com. It’s a great project made possible by Jay Davis and the English majors. 


We sadly report the passing of Hugh Connelly Jr., George Robinson Jr. and Arthur Keleher.


—Don Berlin, 7 Hamilton Drive, Washington Valley, Morristown, NJ 07960-3311; (973) 267-8122; berlin1954@aol.com