By now you have received the ’46 class newsletter describing our successful and spirited 2014 mini-reunion and other important class news. I hope it stirred up enough nostalgia to induce even more of you to attend our next mini September 26 for our first football home-game weekend.


Sam Florman wrote a letter just before the past mini describing the circuitous route so many of our wartime classmates followed before they completed their educations and moved on with their careers. He completed his first year at Dartmouth, where I knew him, followed by a year and a half in V-12, mostly at Thayer School. Received a B.S. from Dartmouth before going to Navy officer training school and a commission in the Civil Engineers Corps, Seabees. Finally, in 1973, he received his Dartmouth-Thayer fifth-year degree in civil engineering. He received numerous honors from Thayer School since graduation. Sam was mentioned in a previous DAM class column after sending me a humorous book he had written about the trials and tribulations of running a construction company in N.Y.C.


The November/December issue of DAM contains a fascinating article about comic Cindy Pierce, the daughter of our late classmate Reggie Pierce and Nancy Pierce. It describes the making of a documentary in the department of film and media studies at Dartmouth about Cindy who helps run the family’s Pierce’s Inn, which has hosted many of our previous reunion receptions. Her performances, which center on embarrassing personal situations in her life, are described by her fans as outrageously hilarious. She must have inherited her comic talent from Reggie, who loved to “clown around” as a former reunion M.C.


Jim D. Shute wrote that he and Mary have moved from Malvern, Pennsylvania, to a condo in West Brandywine, Pennsylvania. Maurice Daniel “Dan” Smith writes from Durham, New Hampshire, that he is “hanging in there—exercising, doing household chores, maintaining properties, reading and writing.”


Our sympathies to the families of deceased classmates Norman Eugene Benz, February 19, 2014, founding member of Divine Mercy Radio; John Foss Kibbe, September 19, 2014, vice president of manufacturing and manager of Techbuilt Inc.; Arthur Philip O’Hara Jr., November 4, 2014, pilot, Japanese POW and “greatest generation” WW II hero who founded Olympia Sales Inc.; William Howard Spoor, November 14, 2014, retired chairman of Pillsbury Co. and recipient of the Dartmouth Presidential Medal for outstanding leadership and achievement.


—John L. Wolff, M.D., 1160 Fifth Ave., Suite 105, New York City, NY 10029; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com