Class Note 1955
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
A victory celebration is due for Warren Petersen, courtesy of Andy Shaw ’76, Warren’s son-in-law. Warren and Andy won the member-guest invitational club championship at Warren’s home base, Card Sound Golf Club at Ocean Reef (part of the Ocean Reef Club at Key Largo, Florida). After winning their preliminary match-play flight, they bested the 11 other flight winners in an alternate shot shoot-out. For summer living, Warren and wife Sally reside in West Lake Forest, Illinois, and at last report were taking a summer Danube-Rhine river cruise.
Here’s more on Gordie Russell’strip to Cuba this past spring with wife Tina. Gordie reports that Cubans have free healthcare and education, with no homelessness. He says Cubans seem happy (an outer façade I can attest to from a 2014 missionary visit there), but resent our poaching their baseball players.
With football upon us this fall, a note on Dartmouth’s 1935 game with Yale. My uncle, G. Walter Dittmar Jr. ’36, bequeathed me two wood shards, each about an inch long and inscribed: “D-14, Y-6.” He explained they were torn from a goal post at Yale Bowl on Dartmouth’s first football victory over the Elis! Thanks to the statistics gurus at Rauner, a check of the records confirms that woeful/wonderful fact, but also that since 1935, the College’s record with Yale is 39 won, 38 lost and 3 tied. A closer rivalry you couldn’t ask for, as long as you’re (slightly) on top.
A mini-mini New York City reunion occurred mid-June, when my wife, Barbara, and I caught up with Alan Murray and wife Carolyn of Larchmont, New York, and Lou Miano. Lou has lived on the East Side in one place or another for more than the past 50 years, but wisely spends a good part of the summer in the Hamptons.
We mourn the passing of Robert M. Rinehart, M.D., who died April 24 this year,and Lane W. “Woody” Goss and David E. Huff, both of whom died May 6. Betty Brady reported 10 classmates (not enough space here to name them) attended the June 4 service for Woody at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Dover, New Hampshire.
—Gale Roberson, 3140 Sprucewood Road, Wilmette, IL 60091; (847) 251-3125; galeroberson@sbcglobal.net
Here’s more on Gordie Russell’strip to Cuba this past spring with wife Tina. Gordie reports that Cubans have free healthcare and education, with no homelessness. He says Cubans seem happy (an outer façade I can attest to from a 2014 missionary visit there), but resent our poaching their baseball players.
With football upon us this fall, a note on Dartmouth’s 1935 game with Yale. My uncle, G. Walter Dittmar Jr. ’36, bequeathed me two wood shards, each about an inch long and inscribed: “D-14, Y-6.” He explained they were torn from a goal post at Yale Bowl on Dartmouth’s first football victory over the Elis! Thanks to the statistics gurus at Rauner, a check of the records confirms that woeful/wonderful fact, but also that since 1935, the College’s record with Yale is 39 won, 38 lost and 3 tied. A closer rivalry you couldn’t ask for, as long as you’re (slightly) on top.
A mini-mini New York City reunion occurred mid-June, when my wife, Barbara, and I caught up with Alan Murray and wife Carolyn of Larchmont, New York, and Lou Miano. Lou has lived on the East Side in one place or another for more than the past 50 years, but wisely spends a good part of the summer in the Hamptons.
We mourn the passing of Robert M. Rinehart, M.D., who died April 24 this year,and Lane W. “Woody” Goss and David E. Huff, both of whom died May 6. Betty Brady reported 10 classmates (not enough space here to name them) attended the June 4 service for Woody at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Dover, New Hampshire.
—Gale Roberson, 3140 Sprucewood Road, Wilmette, IL 60091; (847) 251-3125; galeroberson@sbcglobal.net