Class Note 1955
Issue
Wedding bells rang for Dick DuBoff and Barbara Rose at their marriage on Sunday, June 7, in an outdoor ceremony on the banks of the Hudson River. DuBoff, a widower since 2007, is a retired economic historian who taught at Bryn Mawr College for more than 30 years. Among the wedding guests were Dick and Jean Brief; this writer and wife Iris; and Andy DuBoff ’59 and his wife, Arlene. The Fangers and the DuBoffs also attended the wedding of Kristen Brief ’05, Dick and Jean’s daughter, in March at the Boathouse in Central Park. The DuBoffs will be living in New York City and Rhinebeck, New York, as well as Madrid, where Barbara, a noted art historian and critic, has a home.
Summertime at Cape Cod finds Bob Bagdasarian, Lou Turner, Lou Weintraub and the Fangers in Falmouth. Lou and Lee Turner are year-round residents. Bob Wool, who recently moved back to New York, was a visitor in August. Leon and Marilee Martel spent two summer months in South Orleans, Massachusetts, and managed a day trip to Falmouth for lunch with the Fangers.
News of other ’55s around the country: Earl Fain, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, flies gliders launched by Aero-Tow, aircraft tugs and tow bars. His current vehicle of choice is a 25-year-old German glider, a No. 103 twin Grob. Earl skis around 28 days a year at Santa Fe; Alta, Utah; Sun Valley, California; and Vail, Colorado.
John Kimberly of Arlington, Massachusetts, retired in 1992 after 25 years as CEO of the Citizens National Bank in Malone, New York, near the Canadian border. His first wife, Cindy, passed away in 2000 and he married Mary Lou in 2003. They spend summers on Martha’s Vineyard, where Mary Lou has been a visiting nurse for the past nine years. John volunteers for Trustees of Reservations as a gatekeeper. He also fishes commercially, selling bluefish and stripers to restaurants.
Phil Mayer sold his metal stamping and punch press business on the outskirts of Milwaukee and now divides his time between summers near Madison, Wisconsin, and winters in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. He owns land north of Milwaukee where he enjoys making firewood. He also cuts trails with a tractor and improves a timber stand of 300 acres. In early August he attended an antique outdoor motor and boat show at Tomahawk, Wisconsin, where our classmate Tom Evinrude was keynote speaker. Tom has been giving talks to a number of organizations about his grandfather, Ole, the inventor of the outboard motor and founder of the company that became Outdoor Marine. Tom and Phil became friends in eighth grade and later roomed together in Topliff Hall.
The class convenes at Homecoming in Hanover, October 23 and 24, with the Saturday a.m. meeting in advance of our 55th reunion in June. Hope to see all ’55s and their significant others in attendance.
—Bob Fanger, 24 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 3, Boston, MA 02116; (617) 266-2735; rfanger1@msn.com
Nov - Dec 2009
Wedding bells rang for Dick DuBoff and Barbara Rose at their marriage on Sunday, June 7, in an outdoor ceremony on the banks of the Hudson River. DuBoff, a widower since 2007, is a retired economic historian who taught at Bryn Mawr College for more than 30 years. Among the wedding guests were Dick and Jean Brief; this writer and wife Iris; and Andy DuBoff ’59 and his wife, Arlene. The Fangers and the DuBoffs also attended the wedding of Kristen Brief ’05, Dick and Jean’s daughter, in March at the Boathouse in Central Park. The DuBoffs will be living in New York City and Rhinebeck, New York, as well as Madrid, where Barbara, a noted art historian and critic, has a home.
Summertime at Cape Cod finds Bob Bagdasarian, Lou Turner, Lou Weintraub and the Fangers in Falmouth. Lou and Lee Turner are year-round residents. Bob Wool, who recently moved back to New York, was a visitor in August. Leon and Marilee Martel spent two summer months in South Orleans, Massachusetts, and managed a day trip to Falmouth for lunch with the Fangers.
News of other ’55s around the country: Earl Fain, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, flies gliders launched by Aero-Tow, aircraft tugs and tow bars. His current vehicle of choice is a 25-year-old German glider, a No. 103 twin Grob. Earl skis around 28 days a year at Santa Fe; Alta, Utah; Sun Valley, California; and Vail, Colorado.
John Kimberly of Arlington, Massachusetts, retired in 1992 after 25 years as CEO of the Citizens National Bank in Malone, New York, near the Canadian border. His first wife, Cindy, passed away in 2000 and he married Mary Lou in 2003. They spend summers on Martha’s Vineyard, where Mary Lou has been a visiting nurse for the past nine years. John volunteers for Trustees of Reservations as a gatekeeper. He also fishes commercially, selling bluefish and stripers to restaurants.
Phil Mayer sold his metal stamping and punch press business on the outskirts of Milwaukee and now divides his time between summers near Madison, Wisconsin, and winters in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina. He owns land north of Milwaukee where he enjoys making firewood. He also cuts trails with a tractor and improves a timber stand of 300 acres. In early August he attended an antique outdoor motor and boat show at Tomahawk, Wisconsin, where our classmate Tom Evinrude was keynote speaker. Tom has been giving talks to a number of organizations about his grandfather, Ole, the inventor of the outboard motor and founder of the company that became Outdoor Marine. Tom and Phil became friends in eighth grade and later roomed together in Topliff Hall.
The class convenes at Homecoming in Hanover, October 23 and 24, with the Saturday a.m. meeting in advance of our 55th reunion in June. Hope to see all ’55s and their significant others in attendance.
—Bob Fanger, 24 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 3, Boston, MA 02116; (617) 266-2735; rfanger1@msn.com