Class Notes
Sam Katz advises: “Cathy and I after our earlier years with Nobel laureate virologist John Ender at Harvard have both been faculty pediatricians at Duke for the past 43 years and are now emerita/us.
Don Smith entered Dartmouth in March of 1944 and received his A.B. in 1948 and M.B.A. from Tuck in 1949. He served in the Air Force at Cape Canaveral during the Korean War.
We received a lovely letter from Nancy Lazgin, who wanted to make a memorial contribution to Dartmouth and our Class in honor of her parents Herb Call and Marjorie Lieby (remarried after Herb’s 1971 death).
It was a pleasure to have Lou andEllen Springsteen join us again for our mini-reunion last year. Lou grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, and attended public schools there.
Arthur “Jerry” Wensinger brought me up to date on what he’s now doing with some precedent history. Jerry joined the class in 1944 from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, by way of Phillips Andover.
Pete andAnne Foster took a three-week trip last May sightseeing, absorbing Indian lore and collecting artifacts throughout the Southwest.
John “Jake” Turner came to Dartmouth in 1943 and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in December of that year.
John Gustafson,a retired State University of New York (SUNY), Cortland, biology professor living in Homer, New York, was honored by the Syracuse Post-Standard’s annual Hero of Conservation Award as one of the key people be
Guest columnist Sonny Drury writes this month’s column: In December we lost two of our most popular Marines when Don Drescher in New Jersey and George MacGillivray in Maryland passed away.
With the Hanover Inn not fully renovated, our annual class meeting and both mini-reunion dinners were held during the Penn football weekend at the very attractive Dowd’s Country Inn on the Green in Lyme, New Hampshire.
Another fun annual fall reunion was enjoyed by some 30 attendees.
Our annual fall reunion was great fun; well attended by some 35 classmates, wives and widows; and produced a budget, despite our diminishing numbers, supporting several productive Dartmouth projects.