Class Note 1946
Issue
Jan - Feb 2018
Undaunted by a recent stroke, Jack Howard is now back in action as our beloved class president, much to the relief of our executive committee, our classmates and their families. He is attempting to make arrangements with the College alumni office to produce our annual newsletter and there is no better prescription for his recovery than sending in updates of your recent activities, regardless of how active or inactive you may be, for publication in the letter.
A few responses have already been received. Bob Skutch is unable to accept Jack’s challenge for the largest number of classmate family members attending a family event. He claims a big zero for great-grandchildren, although he has two grandchildren about 30 who are still happily single. So far Jack and Ruth have set the mark of 35 attendees at their recent 70th wedding anniversary, as noted in the previous issue of DAM. Bob’s foundation started 42 years ago publishing a spiritual document titled A Course in Miracles, with 3 million copies distributed in 25 languages, in addition to six books he had published. He gave up playing singles tennis at 90, when he ran out of opponents. Watch out, Bob! I may show up at your doorstep with my tennis racket.
Richard Fitzgerald regretted missing our 70th because of a “bug.” He traveled to Quebec City for the biannual reunion of Price Waterhouse retired partners. He went to Marco Island, Florida, in October and pleasantly recalls the nice dinner Mary Louise and he had with Ruth and Jack at the Aurora Inn. Fen A. Ludke and Bunny flew to Australia for a cruise that included New Zealand in mid-December, returning in January. Norm Weissman’s novels, memoir, screenplays, correspondence and research files are now archived at the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beineke Library.
Our class sympathy goes out to the families of our recently deceased classmates. Donald Edmund Millians died February 15, 2017. He was actively involved in Dartmouth regional clubs as president, officer and career development advisor. Gene Jay Boker died May 19, 2017. I knew Gene as a fellow camper at Schroon Lake Camp in the Adirondacks of New York around 1935-36 and later when he was sports editor and I was managing editor of The Dartmouth. William Webb Striker died July 28, 2017. He was with the Navy V-12 and was a class agent and admissions interviewer.
Correction: Please note, in the class of 1946 notes in last issue of DAM, an editorial error in naming Jack Hayward in place of Jack Howard for the Jack Howard challenge for most family members returning to a family reunion.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com
A few responses have already been received. Bob Skutch is unable to accept Jack’s challenge for the largest number of classmate family members attending a family event. He claims a big zero for great-grandchildren, although he has two grandchildren about 30 who are still happily single. So far Jack and Ruth have set the mark of 35 attendees at their recent 70th wedding anniversary, as noted in the previous issue of DAM. Bob’s foundation started 42 years ago publishing a spiritual document titled A Course in Miracles, with 3 million copies distributed in 25 languages, in addition to six books he had published. He gave up playing singles tennis at 90, when he ran out of opponents. Watch out, Bob! I may show up at your doorstep with my tennis racket.
Richard Fitzgerald regretted missing our 70th because of a “bug.” He traveled to Quebec City for the biannual reunion of Price Waterhouse retired partners. He went to Marco Island, Florida, in October and pleasantly recalls the nice dinner Mary Louise and he had with Ruth and Jack at the Aurora Inn. Fen A. Ludke and Bunny flew to Australia for a cruise that included New Zealand in mid-December, returning in January. Norm Weissman’s novels, memoir, screenplays, correspondence and research files are now archived at the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beineke Library.
Our class sympathy goes out to the families of our recently deceased classmates. Donald Edmund Millians died February 15, 2017. He was actively involved in Dartmouth regional clubs as president, officer and career development advisor. Gene Jay Boker died May 19, 2017. I knew Gene as a fellow camper at Schroon Lake Camp in the Adirondacks of New York around 1935-36 and later when he was sports editor and I was managing editor of The Dartmouth. William Webb Striker died July 28, 2017. He was with the Navy V-12 and was a class agent and admissions interviewer.
Correction: Please note, in the class of 1946 notes in last issue of DAM, an editorial error in naming Jack Hayward in place of Jack Howard for the Jack Howard challenge for most family members returning to a family reunion.
—John L.E. Wolff, M.D., 860 Knollwood Road, White Plains, NY 10603; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com