Class Note 1951
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
My friendship with Sandy McDonald goes back to kindergarten days in Winnetka, Illinois, so we had lots to talk about recently when he and Gebby came back to visit their old haunts. Sandy and I were two of 12 members of the class of ’51 who were graduates of New Trier High School or North Shore Country Day in Winnetka. The others: Tom Barnett, Chip Blomgren, Bob Bowler, Bill Fraser, Ted Glaser, Chuck Hoban, Peirce McKee, Bill Merkle, Chuck Nadler and Mace Weare.
Paul Meyer and I connected at our 65th reunion and have continued our conversations since—another example of the pleasures of discovering remarkable classmates we wish we’d known better back then. Paul is a “pure” mathematician; in contrast to applied math, as he explains it, his field has no known practical applications and nothing to do with the real world. His specialty: hierarchies of infinities, which he describes as aesthetically pleasing and full of fascinating puzzles. Paul taught for 40 years at Lehman College, part of the City University of New York, and retired to Middlebury, Vermont. A highlight of our 65th reunion for him was dinner with Dick Eitel and Charlie Russell, his partners on an “unforgettable trip” to Alaska following our senior year.
Speaking of connecting, Jean Bowler, Bob’s widow, reached out to Micki Balaban, widow of Red, a Connecticut neighbor, and has introduced her to the Dartmouth Club of Fairfield County. We are encouraging them, and all members of the ’51 family, to come back to Hanover this fall for our mini-reunion (September 22-24). Smaller than our five-year gatherings, these annual get-togethers include fall colors, football and priceless time with old friends.
Jim Cavanagh and Ed Landau, ’51 graduates who also attended the two-year Dartmouth Medical School, report that the tight-knit group of DMS alumni held its biennial reunion in Hanover from September 15-17. We will work together to schedule our gatherings concurrently from now on.
We send the class’ condolences to the families of recently deceased classmates Bill Jameison, Bayard Johnston and Bob Woodhouse.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com
Paul Meyer and I connected at our 65th reunion and have continued our conversations since—another example of the pleasures of discovering remarkable classmates we wish we’d known better back then. Paul is a “pure” mathematician; in contrast to applied math, as he explains it, his field has no known practical applications and nothing to do with the real world. His specialty: hierarchies of infinities, which he describes as aesthetically pleasing and full of fascinating puzzles. Paul taught for 40 years at Lehman College, part of the City University of New York, and retired to Middlebury, Vermont. A highlight of our 65th reunion for him was dinner with Dick Eitel and Charlie Russell, his partners on an “unforgettable trip” to Alaska following our senior year.
Speaking of connecting, Jean Bowler, Bob’s widow, reached out to Micki Balaban, widow of Red, a Connecticut neighbor, and has introduced her to the Dartmouth Club of Fairfield County. We are encouraging them, and all members of the ’51 family, to come back to Hanover this fall for our mini-reunion (September 22-24). Smaller than our five-year gatherings, these annual get-togethers include fall colors, football and priceless time with old friends.
Jim Cavanagh and Ed Landau, ’51 graduates who also attended the two-year Dartmouth Medical School, report that the tight-knit group of DMS alumni held its biennial reunion in Hanover from September 15-17. We will work together to schedule our gatherings concurrently from now on.
We send the class’ condolences to the families of recently deceased classmates Bill Jameison, Bayard Johnston and Bob Woodhouse.
—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com