Class Note 1955
Issue
Nov - Dec 2017
Lou Hance will be in the midst of ramrodding through our great Homecoming when this reaches the printed page. She also will have details of our 2018 mini at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, June 19-21, 2018, in a forthcoming newsletter.
Join ’55s the weekend of November 10: Dartmouth-Brown football at Fenway Friday and the Dartmouth Uniformed Services Alumni Veteran’s Day Celebration on Saturday at the Langham.
Spoke with President Lundstrom and reinforced thoughts about class memories and family stories. Ken recalled when they had to move in with the grandparents in the Depression. Their big garden helped keep them (and others) fed during the war. Write this stuff down. Kotz and Lenderking and Pessl have done so with great success.
Don Kurth is rich with just such tales. He became a navigator on an Air Force EC-121C Warning Star airborne early-warning radar surveillance aircraft. Don had met Paul Tiemer while they were both in junior year summer training and also shared duties with Dave Walton, Paul Finegan and Ray Woolson at Otis Air Base on Cape Cod. Now jump ahead many years. Don is manager of Simsbury Light Summer Theatre and by this time widowed. He becomes friends with a delightful widow who turns out to be Paul Tiemer’s little sister, Jane. Because Paul went to Deerfield it turns out that she knew more from our class than did Don, including Peter Gulick. Don and Jane have been engaged for 18 years.
Bob Perkins reports that he and Kay continue to have splendid days and nights on the bank of San Domingo creek in St. Michael’s, Maryland. Bob has just finished his memoir, though it’s only 100 pages so it must be just the outline.
John Baldwin writes that Don Charbonnier joined his annual group fishing trip out of Sitka, Alaska, in June. There was classic weather of alternating sun and rain; they fished 10 hours each day, had great bonding and brought home 120 pounds of salmon, halibut and rockfish each, all flash frozen and table ready.
Sadly, we report the passing of Miles Garrod, Sterling Klinck and Glen Wathen.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com
Join ’55s the weekend of November 10: Dartmouth-Brown football at Fenway Friday and the Dartmouth Uniformed Services Alumni Veteran’s Day Celebration on Saturday at the Langham.
Spoke with President Lundstrom and reinforced thoughts about class memories and family stories. Ken recalled when they had to move in with the grandparents in the Depression. Their big garden helped keep them (and others) fed during the war. Write this stuff down. Kotz and Lenderking and Pessl have done so with great success.
Don Kurth is rich with just such tales. He became a navigator on an Air Force EC-121C Warning Star airborne early-warning radar surveillance aircraft. Don had met Paul Tiemer while they were both in junior year summer training and also shared duties with Dave Walton, Paul Finegan and Ray Woolson at Otis Air Base on Cape Cod. Now jump ahead many years. Don is manager of Simsbury Light Summer Theatre and by this time widowed. He becomes friends with a delightful widow who turns out to be Paul Tiemer’s little sister, Jane. Because Paul went to Deerfield it turns out that she knew more from our class than did Don, including Peter Gulick. Don and Jane have been engaged for 18 years.
Bob Perkins reports that he and Kay continue to have splendid days and nights on the bank of San Domingo creek in St. Michael’s, Maryland. Bob has just finished his memoir, though it’s only 100 pages so it must be just the outline.
John Baldwin writes that Don Charbonnier joined his annual group fishing trip out of Sitka, Alaska, in June. There was classic weather of alternating sun and rain; they fished 10 hours each day, had great bonding and brought home 120 pounds of salmon, halibut and rockfish each, all flash frozen and table ready.
Sadly, we report the passing of Miles Garrod, Sterling Klinck and Glen Wathen.
—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com