Class Note 1954
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
We returned to Hanover (September 30 to October 2) for the executive committee meeting and mini-reunion. Attending: Dick Lewis and Audrey, Harry Robinson and Carol, Hugh Nolin and Debby, Peter Kenyon and Jillian, David Mandelbaum and Rosemary, Rick Hartman and Anne, Sue Bastian, Bob Collimore, Don Berlin and Barbara, Jay Chandler and Fleur, Herb Hillman and Ann, Jim Tofias and Joan, Wayne Weil and Shelia, Tom Kelsey and Liz, Shel Woolf, Dick Page, Jay Davis, Mort Galper and Judy, Mike Finigan, Bob Adnopoz and Jean, Ben Gilson and Sarah, Dana Low and Anne, Steve Mullins and Carol, David Ransom, Dan Neiditz and Arlene, Betty Heston. Events included were a class meeting, the Penn football game, and dinner and lecture at Jesse’s.
Rick Hartman announced initiatives to improve communications with ’54 widows: Betty Heston volunteered as co-chair of the mini-reunion committee; Sue Bastian, widow of Bryce Bastian, volunteered to encourage the involvement of widows in class activities. She will contact classmates’ surviving spouses to offer condolences and to advise them that a memorial book will be placed in Baker Library. She will make personal contact with a new widow to assure her that she will be invited, and will always be welcome to participate in class of 1954 events. Don Berlin reported that the 1954 internship endowment has been established as the class’s legacy gift to the College to fund our internships into the future. Thanks to 33 leadership classmates (and a class of 1954 donation), $50,000 has been raised to match the donation of the anonymous challenge gift of $50,000. The class of 1954 internship endowment will start with $100,000 and it will be funded primarily by individual classmate bequests. Classmates who are members of the 1769 Society should notify the gift planning office to designate all or a portion of their bequest for the internship endowment. Additional support by others will be encouraged. Don declared this a great start toward our legacy gift to the College!
We are sad to report the recent deaths of Robert Riggio, John Parker, Edwin Quinn, Norman Ross and David Gleason.
—Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouthgraphics.
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Rick Hartman announced initiatives to improve communications with ’54 widows: Betty Heston volunteered as co-chair of the mini-reunion committee; Sue Bastian, widow of Bryce Bastian, volunteered to encourage the involvement of widows in class activities. She will contact classmates’ surviving spouses to offer condolences and to advise them that a memorial book will be placed in Baker Library. She will make personal contact with a new widow to assure her that she will be invited, and will always be welcome to participate in class of 1954 events. Don Berlin reported that the 1954 internship endowment has been established as the class’s legacy gift to the College to fund our internships into the future. Thanks to 33 leadership classmates (and a class of 1954 donation), $50,000 has been raised to match the donation of the anonymous challenge gift of $50,000. The class of 1954 internship endowment will start with $100,000 and it will be funded primarily by individual classmate bequests. Classmates who are members of the 1769 Society should notify the gift planning office to designate all or a portion of their bequest for the internship endowment. Additional support by others will be encouraged. Don declared this a great start toward our legacy gift to the College!
We are sad to report the recent deaths of Robert Riggio, John Parker, Edwin Quinn, Norman Ross and David Gleason.
—Wayne Weil, 246 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ 07070; (201) 933-4102; wayne@dartmouthgraphics.
com