Nick Bernstein ’84, son of Walter Bernstein, writes in with a quick note about his famous screenwriter father: “My father was blacklisted in 1950—and wrote a movie about it called The Front, with Woody Allen. He taught screenwriting at Dartmouth for a time over several summers. He is probably one of the only surviving members of his class.” He celebrated his 100th birthday in August.” —The Editors
Class Notes 1940
Search Class Notes Prior to 2010Tuck Dean Matt Slaughter reports on a recent meeting he had with Joe Huber: “En route to Minnesota in December, in a lovely Dartmouth-around-the-world moment, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Huber. Two of his daughters and he were in the same airplane row as me, and I ended up speaking with him for about an hour of the flight. He told me he turned 100 on December 6, his wife passed away last month, and his daughters were traveling with him to move him back home to Bozeman, Montana, to live with his son. Mr. Huber could remember a fair bit of his Dartmouth time: He lived in Topliff his first couple years, majored in economics, and sang in the Glee Club. After Dartmouth he went to Washington, D.C., and, when WW II broke out, he enlisted in the Navy, and flew during the war—and continued for a total of 25 years. He said he loved Dartmouth, and he thinks he was last on campus for his 75th reunion in 2015. One of the gifts the family gave him for his big birthday last week was a Dartmouth hat.”
—The Editors
I regret to report the passing of our class baby, Ralph Palmer, on November 6, 2013. He is survived by his wife, Leatrice, three children and nine grandchildren.
The class of 1940 is now down to 36 alumni. Ned Jacoby and Bea are hoping to move into Kendal at Hanover soon. In late March, as I write this column, the Hanover area still appears to be buried in snow.
—Walker Weed, 1105 South Tracy Ave., Bozeman, MT 59715; wweed2@gmail.com
We have lost another classmate. Allan Rosenthal passed away January 21, and we survivors now number 36.
I left Hanover and came to Bozeman, Montana, early in December to be near my kids until spring. It so happened that our president, Joe Huber, and his wife, Priscilla, were here over Christmas visiting his son, and we got together three times before they went on to Hingham, Massachusetts.
Ned and Bee Jacoby are still living in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Jerry Schnitzer has just coauthored a book, Blood of the White Bear. Ned has written a review of it for the next 1940 newsletter.
One of my most faithful newsletter contributors, John E.D. Peacock, writes that he is living happily in a retirement community in Indianapolis, Indiana.
—Walker Weed, 1105 South Tracy Ave., Bozeman, MT 59715; wweed2@gmail.com
I regret to report that we have lost two more classmates and are down to 38 survivors. Ray Dau passed away July 28, 2013, in Santa Cruz, California, and Joe Armanini on October 5, 2013, in San Ramon, California.
The only word I have had from any of you out there is from Jerry Schnitzer, who has published a new book, Blood of the White Bear. I hope to review it soon.
So I can only tell you about my own activities. A friend staged a great 95th birthday party for me on November 18. Fifty-seven friends, mostly from the Hanover area, came and, except for Ned Jacoby, who is seven weeks older than I, they were a bunch of youngsters ranging in age from 40 to mid 80s. About a month following that I decided to go west and spend the winter with my kids in Bozeman, Montana. I’ve lived in New Hampshire for 65 years and in Hanover for 49.
It was a pleasant surprise to find that our president, Joe Huber, and his wife, Priscilla, were here visiting Joe’s son Seph and family over Christmas. Joe and I roomed together senior year and worked for the same firm in Washington, D.C., after WW II.
—Walker Weed, 30 Three Mile Road, Etna, NH 03750; wweed2@gmail.com
I haven’t had much news from the brothers or sisters of 1940 lately, but Seymour Wheelock in Taos, New Mexico, John Peacock in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Jim Schaye in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, all report that they are hanging in there. Jim is recovering nicely from back surgery.
There are just four of us ’40s in the Dartmouth area at this point. Ned Jacoby and Bea in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, Bob Skinner in Mt. Sunapee, New Hampshire, Bill Halsey in Thetford, Vermont, and yours truly in Hanover, where I have lived for 48 years.
The last time that I reported on losses of class members in DAM was December of 2010, and we were down to 79. Since then we have lost 23 more and we number 56. I have listed them in 1940 newsletters. There are still a bunch of us left, all in our 90s. Here to the best of my knowledge is a list of the survivors: Josiah Adams, Joseph Armanini, Robert Armstrong, Walter Bernstein, William Blake, Victor Bloede, Walter Carlson, James Carpenter, Joseph Christopher, John Cowan, Ray Dau, Kelvin Doyle, Bruce Espy, Eldon Fox, Fred Fuld, Theodore Gates, Thomas George, David Gibson, Richard Gray, William Halsey, Russell Hanchette, Robert Hewitt, Lewis Holmes, Joseph Huber, William Huffman, John Imo, John Ingersoll, Ned Jacoby, Charles Jones, Raymond Kantor, Stuart MacPhail, Robert Marshall, John Moore, Gilbert Myers, Ralph Palmer, John Peacock, Jack Preiss, Rodney Reighard, Percy Rideout, Henri Rosen, Allan Rosenthal, Martin Rubin, James Schaye, Gerald Schnitzer, William Sinclair, Robert Skinner, William Smallwood, Joseph Sudarsky, Danforth Toan, William Wagner, Walker Weed, Robert Weil, Seymour Wheelock, E. Webster Whitney Jr., William Wotherspoon, Howard Zagor.
—Walker T. Weed, 30 Three Mile Road, Etna, NH 03750
The last time that I reported on losses of class members in the DAM was June of 2012, and we were down to 57. Since then we have lost Josiah Adams, Robert Armstrong, Kelvin Doyle, William Huffman, Percy Rideout, William Sinclair, Joseph Sudarsky, Danforth Toan and Seymour Wheelock and we number 48. Here to the best of my knowledge is a list of the survivors: Joseph Armanini, Walter Bernstein, William Blake, Victor Bloede, Walter Carlson, James Carpenter, Joseph Christopher, John Cowan, Ray Dau, Bruce Espy, Eldon Fox, Fred Fuld, Theodore Gates, Thomas George, David Gibson, Richard Gray, William Halsey, Russell Hanchette, Robert Hewitt, Lewis Holmes, Joseph Huber, John Imo, John Ingersoll, Ned Jacoby, Charles Jones, Raymond Kantor, Stuart MacPhail, Robert Marshall, John Moore, Gilbert Myers, Ralph Palmer, John Peacock, Jack Preiss, Rodney Reighard, Henri Rosen, Allan Rosenthal, Martin Rubin, James Schaye, Gerald Schnitzer, Robert Skinner, William Smallwood, William Wagner, Walker Weed, Robert Weil, E. Webster Whitney Jr., William Wotherspoon, Howard Zagor.
—Walker T. Weed, 30 Three Mile Road, Etna, NH 03750
Carole Davenport wrote that Dave died Christmas morning in Sarasota, Florida, at the Memory Center, where he had been living for the past two years. A note from Julie Turkevich said that her mother, Elizabeth, died peacefully in Camden, Maine, on November 26, 2010. “As you may know she met my dad, Nick, at Dartmouth when he was a roommate of her brother, Bill Cleaves.”
Bill Huffman wrote thanks for words and pictures of the 70th reunion. They have moved from their large house to a very nice retirement situation about two miles away in Rocky River, Ohio.
Seymour Wheelock has “moved to Taos, New Mexico, from Denver a year ago to be closer to our son, who lives not far away. It was very hard to sever personal and professional associations that were 60 years in the making.”
Hugh Schwartz: “I’m living in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, year-round and have enough family nearby so I’m very comfortable.”
Joe and Priscilla Huber have a nice situation, spending summers in Hingham, Massachusetts, and the cold months in Coronado, California.
For the first three weeks of February Ned and Bee Jacoby escaped our snowy N.H. winter and went back for a visit to their old stamping ground in Newport Beach, California.
—Walker Weed, 30 Three Mile Road, Etna, NH 03750
We have lost two more of our 1940 alumni: Malcolm Cross on June 17, 2010, and Bill Pellington on October 22, 2010.
All of the recent news that I have received about classmates has appeared in my December/January newsletter, but I thought that it would be of interest to our class and adjacent ones to see a list of those ’40s who are still around.
We are down to 79 survivors: Josiah Adams, Joseph Armanini, Robert Armstrong, Gardner Ashley, Walter Bernstein, William Blake, Lloyd Blanchard, Victor Bloede, Karl Bruch, William Bumsted, Sherwood Burnett, Walter Carlson, James Carpenter, John Case, Joseph Christopher, John Cowan, Walter Dance, James Darnley, Ray Dau, David Davenport, Kelvin Doyle, Bruce Espy, Clifford Falkenau, Eldon Fox, Arthur French, Fred Fuld, Edward Gardiner, Theodore Gates, Thomas George, David Gibson, Richard Gray, Alvin Gutman, William Halsey, Russell Hanchette, Richard Heer, Robert Hewitt, Lewis Holmes, Joseph Huber, William Huffman, Douglas Hunter, John Imo, John Ingersoll, Ned Jacoby, Charles Jones, Raymond Kantor, Stuart MacPhail, Robert Marshall, John Moore, Gilbert Myers, Ralph Palmer, John Peacock, Jack Preiss, Harry Raymond, Rodney Reighard, Percy Rideout, Louis Rose, Henri Rosen, Allan Rosenthal, Martin Rubin, James Schaye, Edward Schechter, Gerald Schnitzer, Hugh Schwarz, Welles Seller, William Sinclair, Robert Skinner, William Smallwood, Joseph Sudarsky, Danforth Toan, Stephen Valensi, William Wagner, Walker Weed, Robert Weil, Robert Wetzler, Seymour Wheelock, E. Webster Whitney Jr., William Wotherspoon, Richard York, Howard Zagor.
—Walker Weed, 30 Three Mile Road, Etna, NH 03750
Ned Jacoby did a stellar job as chairman of our 70th reunion September 24-26. He had a lot of help from Jennifer Casey, acting director of class activities. The College picked up the tab for everything—room and board at the Hanover Inn, even the open bar.
We had 10 classmates present—Josiah and Patty Adams, William and Gloria Bumsted, William and Tipi Halsey, Joseph and Priscilla Huber, Ned and Bee Jacoby, Stuart MacPhail, Robert Marshall, Jack Preiss, Percy Rideout and Walker Weed—widows Charlotte Acer, Joan Bachelder, Lili Graham, Marjorie Hannestad, Eileen Harwood, Marian Weinberg and eight children of Classmates.
There were numerous events, including a talk by President Jim Yong Kim at dinner the first evening, a 31-25 football victory over Sacred Heart on Saturday, class meeting at which we elected Joe Huber president, pared down the officers list and left further reunions to be decided as we go along, singing by the Dartmouth Aires on Saturday evening dinner and a memorial service on Sunday for the 65 classmates who had passed away since our 65th reunion.
We are down to 82 living 1940 alumni now. I count about 615 in our Green Book who matriculated in 1936. That’s 13.3 percent, the national average these days. All of us are in our 90s. Twelve percent of us survivors came to the 70th.
We have lost few classmates over the past six months, but Henry W. Stokes passed away on September 26, 2010, at his home in Hingham, Massachusetts.
—Walker T. Weed, 30 Three Mile Road, Etna, NH 03750
