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May - Jun 2013

On January 6 the Valley News featured an interview with Ray Truncellito about his football career at Dartmouth.

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May - Jun 2012

Happy camper Bob Barnaby, almost 90, “has no aches or pains, takes no pills and has all six children living near him in the Atlanta area.” Bob got in on the ground floor of an industrial flooring company, figuring that it was bett

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May - June 2011

Last January the National Archives invited me to participate on a C-Spanned Civil War political cartoon panel in Washington, D.C. I was the amateur along with three pros, but it went well.

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Mar - Apr 2013

Sad news: Punchy Thomas died in his sleep on Christmas Eve, just as this column went to the editors. More on Punchy, our class reunion mainstay, in the next issue.


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Mar - Apr 2012

Going back to Jay Urstadt’s telephone mini-reunion in October, Bill Turino, who lives near Jay in Bronxville, New York, was there in person. Bill was one of the original 49 ’49s, but left after a semester for the Navy.

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Mar - Apr 2011

Ray Rasenberger is keeping busy in Washington, D.C., with mediating and arbitrating cases for the Federal Court of Appeals on a pro bono basis.

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Jul - Aug 2013

With Punchy Thomas gone, John Stearns has stepped into his old shoes and will coordinate the mini-reunion scheduled for Friday, September 27 through Sunday brunch on the 29th.

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Jul - Aug 2012

In sunny Sarasota, Florida, Bruce Crawford, Tom Towler and I, along with our better halves, enjoyed the company of Pat and “Punchy” Thomas in early March, just before Punchy had his shoulder repla

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Jul - Aug 2011

George Day observed the Civil War sesquicentennial by visiting the battlefields at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, Tennessee, where his grandfather fought with the Illinois volunteer Infantry and received a battlefield commission and a

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Jan - Feb 2013

Class president Ray Truncellito and I had a long telephone conversation reminiscing about his football and army experiences. For 17-year-old Ray, to play at Notre Dame was a big deal.

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Jan - Feb 2012

Punchy Thomas reports that 16 ’49ers attended the mini: Persis and Bob Alden, Jane and Clarke Church, Susan and John Everatt, Barbara and Vail Haak, Anne and

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Jan - Feb 2011

Punchy Thomas reports that 20 classmates and 15 spouses/companions attended the mini-reunion during the October 15-16 weekend.