Class Notes 1958

The class of 1958 mounted its 65th reunion in September that was considered a huge success.

New officers elected were Hal Bernsen, president; Frank Gould, vice president; John Trimble, secretary and newsletter editor; and Mike Simberkoff, treasurer. Sam Smith retired after a productive term as vice president. Mike Simberkoff agreed to continue as our money man and John Trimble switched roles so he could continue to write this stuff! A highlight of the 65th was a series of three storytelling sessions centered around favorite Dartmouth memories, sports in our lives and promises kept, the theme of the reunion. Twenty-eight participated telling tales that ranged from awe-inspiring to nostalgic, melancholy, and funny enough to produce a few belly laughs.

The Rev. Preston “Pete” Kelsey presided over a memorial service that recognized the more than 100 classmates who had died since our 60th reunion in 2018. President Sian Leah Beilock accepted our record-shattering check of $791,958 for the Dartmouth College Fund. Class interlocutor and raconteur Larry Weltin provided the right touch to close our class dinner. Although the College believes old fogies can only endure each other’s company for two days, 70 percent of the 71 registrants stuck around for a third day, enjoying the extension and additional time to do what we came for—reconnect, reminisce and relax. The Decibelles and Dartmouth Aires were melodic, the Irving and Arctic institutes were powerful reminders of climate-induced complexities, and the Hanover Inn took pretty good care of us. Hal Bernsen and Frank Gould, co-chairs, did spectacular jobs in putting this all together. Retired Ballard Spahr partner Morton P. Fisher Jr. has received the Frederick S. Lane Award, the highest individual honor of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, a premier professional organization of real estate attorneys. Way to go, Morty!

A note from Joel Portugal: “We went to the Ruscha exhibit at MOMA in N.Y.C. The lead painting in the exhibit is the Standard/Chevron gas station on loan from the Hood Museum that was donated to Dartmouth by Jim Meeker in honor of Lee English.”

—John Trimble, 99 Mooncussers Lane, Chatham, MA 02633; jtrim99@comcast.net

The dribble effect of the paucity of news worthy of this column is like the proverbial Chinese water torture. Take that, oxymoron fans! Christine Fuller helped break that by sending along news that she and Ben Fuller had dinner with Jim Riffle and Mimi in May, when reminiscing was rife. Efforts to convince them to attend reunion proved fruitless, although you’ll read the Fullers’ names below! Skip Coggin has shareda comprehensive muse about what it took to get into Tuck. It concludes with, “What this all showed me is that if you want something badly enough, and you work hard to achieve it, you can just about accomplish anything. That was a valuable lesson that has served me well through life.” I caught up with Paul Robinson, who, with Wes, spends summers in an old family cottage in my backyard of downtown Chatham, Massachusetts. I never knew! Coleman Colla shared news common to us of a certain age: “I won’t make it to the 65th. I’m not traveling much anymore, and my wife just made me surrender my car keys too!” Our 65th reunion will be upon us when this column is published, and we expect those traveling to include Mary and Hal Bernsen, Linda and Jim Crawford, Jim Dougherty,Ann and Mort Fisher,the Fullers, Bill and Bruce Gemberling, Frances Wright and Craig Haines, Ted Kleinman and guest,Susan and Art Lindenauer,Brendan and Benny McAdams, Don McCree,Carleen and Don McIntyre,Vicki and Tryg Myhren, Helen and Joel Portugal,Sandra Hurd and Joel Potash,Lonita and Ray Robbins, Eleanor and Mike Simberkoff, Robin and Sam Smith, Jim Spence,Lucy and Walter Stackler,Linda and John Trimble,Scotty and Walter Vail,Pat Gregory and Otto Wagenbach,Marty and Larry Weltin, and Dick Norris andJane Yusen. A highlight of what’s to come will be storytelling sessions focusing on “Promises Kept,” “Sports in our Lives,” and “Favorite Dartmouth Memories.” Those should be mesmerizing! Sadly, look online for the obituaries for Cal Dyer, Dave Stevens, Bruce Barber, Phil Livingston, Pete Crane, Graf Berger, J.M. Engels,and John Sherwood.

—John Trimble, 99 Mooncussers Lane, Chatham, MA 02633; jtrim99@comcast.net

Many of our generation will remember the fear and trepidation we faced in passing the College’s swim test in order to graduate. Recently The Dartmouth published an opinion piece headlined “Dartmouth Removed its Only Useful Graduation Requirement.” Oh the perfidy of it all. One day sink or swim, the next who cares? To think 65 years ago many still faced this daunting challenge.

The challenge today is to get yourselves in gear to attend our September reunion. Registration materials should be in your hands or will be shortly for a full three days of reconnection and reminiscing. Reunion kicks off on Sunday, September 10, and concludes Wednesday, September 13. Hal Bernsen and Frank Gould have put together an outstanding program. We want to see you there!

I recently received emails from two surviving significant others that reminded me of the importance of this segment of our class community. Michele McIsaac filled me in on the doings of the Bob Eleveld crew and all the way from Australia Heather Mullins, Bill Hartley’slong-time squeeze,remembered fondly his playing golf with Steve Quickel. Another long-distance email arrived from Idaho from Bill Sills with Frank Gato errata: “He was my roomie. No one could ever have a better roomie.” Jim Fannin, our intrepid preservation consultant, shared that he and Minxie have written a review for the Preservation Technology International Bulletin that was just published of the book, Stories in Stone. He noted that was not bad for a guy who majored in economic geography! Tryg Myhren let me know that he and Vicki are among the honorees at the upcoming National Jewish Health annual event in Denver. “This is a truly excellent and wonderful organization which does a lot of good for people around the world.” Four guys who did lots of good for the world have died recently—Harvey Grable, Phil McCaull, Steve Quickel, and Doug Wilder. Their obituaries can be found in the archives of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

—John Trimble, 2735 Golfside Court, Naples, FL 34110; jtrim99@comcast.net

In the absence of an outpouring of class-specific news, I’ll correct misinformation provided earlier this year and speak to the class of 1958 65th reunion. Two months ago we published dates provided by alumni relations that now turn out to be wrong. So please note that the correct dates are September 10, 11, 12.

Some may have made reservations based on the earlier news and those should be revisited. However, there is exciting news on that front. Hal Bernsen has agreed to chair the reunion and has enlisted Frank Gould to be his primary sidekick. Planning is well under way and we have used the experience of ’57 to help frame our approach. In addition, Bob Downey and Walter Vail have agreed to co-chair the reunion giving committee to pursue the Dartmouth College Fund goals approved at the class meeting in early October of $500,000 and 50-percent participation. Both believe based on past class performance that we should bust through that number and break the standing 65th record of $558,000! The class had chosen to hold its fall mini-reunion before the frost chilled the pumpkin and we were rewarded with a spectacular early October weekend and wonderful attendance enhanced by the reappearance of Cack Bitner and Rob Goodell, long absent from these annual festivities.

Rob has sent me a fascinating email: “A magazine reporter contacted me this week asking about Bill Friedman, who disappeared without a trace in May of our freshman year. Bill was in Gile, as was I, so the reporter interviewed me for a story he’s doing on the incident.” Rob and I would love to have feedback if anyone knows anything. Rob continues to produce beautifully written memorials for classmates who die and they can be found at DAM online.

Joel Portugal emailed that he is very much looking forward to the 65th in September.

Joel Potash wrote he received awards from Le Moyne College for Board Member of the Year and the Dorothy Reister Award from Stone Quarry Art Park in Cazenovia, New York.

—John Trimble, 2735 Golfside Court, Naples, FL 34110; jtrim99@comcast.net

Gathering news for the DAM column is like snatching tidbits from a gale! We reach out but only occasionally succeed in picking something from the wind. But first a reminder: You will have received the annual brochure announcing plans for our mini-reunion that this fall will be the weekend of September 30 to October 2. Reserve your accommodations at the Courtyard by Marriott, where a block of rooms has been set aside for us. This is not Homecoming, so rates will be more favorable. Frank Gould has put together his usual high-quality program and the Penn-Dartmouth football game will be Saturday afternoon. Since the last column Rob Goodell has sent DAM obituaries for the classmates who were listed, and those should be available at its website. We have identified a number of deaths for which obituaries had not been written and Rob has done that. The two most recent deaths we know about are for Frank Gato and Al Gazzaniga. Coleman Colla has provided some interesting stats. “When our class of 1958 cohort was born, the life expectancy of a white American male was 63 years. That would have taken us on average to or past 1999. Now, at about 86, for those of us still alive, life expectancy is 92 years, or half of us will live to see 2028!” As of June 30, of our original class of 753, 424 remain or an extraordinary 56 percent! One death of note outside the class is of John Andersen, who with Donna, hosted us for several Homecoming years at Breakfast on the Connecticut. Among the living, I’ve heard from Bob Abbott, who has consolidated his home in Vero Beach, Florida, and left Massachusetts after many years. Carl Wentworth emails that “California remains attached to the mainland, although the San Andreas fault continues its inexorable movement and occasional earthquakes; the next ‘big one’ is always just ahead of us.” Hmm! Skip Coggin emails that he and Gersh Abraham hosted Buddy Teevens ’79 at a breakfast at their continuing care retirement community in Evanston, Illinois. Not recruiting, I suspect!

—John Trimble, 99 Mooncussers Lane, Chatham, MA 02633; jtrim99@comcast.net

At a time when our college faces great change and the world is roiled by bald-faced Russian aggression, when the U.S. Supreme Court is roiled by politics and an historic nomination, and as our political differences rend civil discourse, the matters affecting our class mostly fade in relative importance. But these turmoils cannot overshadow the continuing loss of classmates. In recent weeks we have been informed of the deaths of Peter Heegaard, a stalwart of the Minneapolis scene, and Joe Blake, the Barrett Cup winner at graduation and an icon in the Denver area. After a lengthy pause, Rob Goodell has stepped up and agreed to be the class necrologist. Through time, obituaries for classmates who have died since Steve Quickel’s last efforts will appear in future editions of The Sound & Fury. There’s sparse news from classmates themselves. John Voll writes, “I have been keeping busy doing some academic reviews and research. It is really fascinating to compare world affairs now with the world that we were studying in the 1950s.” Indeed! Christine writing for Ben Fuller shares, “Ben goes to the gym three mornings a week and tries to walk about three miles in our neighborhood on the other two or three mornings. He sees other retired professors there and enjoys getting out of the house. For us, life is good and we are most grateful.” A note from Joel Potash with the subject “overcoming paltry” shares the news, “My wife, Sandra Hurd, and I commissioned an opera based on the life of a Black folk singer, Libba Cotton. It was performed in the fall at the Tucker Missionary Baptist Church in Syracuse, New York, and will be making the rounds of colleges in upstate New York. We hope to support a recording soon.” We have word that our 65th reunion will be the weekend of September 15-17, 2023, and will be headquartered at the Hanover Inn. Nearer term our fall mini will be September 30 to October 2 with Penn football and rooms blocked at the Courtyard by Marriott. Reserve early!

—John Trimble, 2735 Golfside Court, Naples, FL 34110; jtrim99@comcast.net

After missing the deadline for the last DAM column, I tattooed future submission dates on my forearm. Nonetheless, the flow of class news to this interim scribe has been paltry, so please feed me even if it’s just scraps from your banquet. The banquet, a.k.a., our class dinner, on October 9 was a fitting conclusion to a renewed Homecoming mini-reunion. Frank Gould working with moving targets put together a program that attracted a smaller but very vibrant group of ’58s and spouses. Attendees included Bob and Nancy Downey, Jerry Manne, Hal and Mary Bernsen, Mike and Eleanor Simberkoff, Walter andScottie Vail, Doug and Judy Fusonie, Joe and Sandy Slotnick, Ralph and Sally Manuel, Mel Alperin, Dick Frisch, Dave and Ann Bradley, Otto Wagenbach and So, Don McCree, Frank and Nora Gould, and John and Linda Trimble.Also attending bits and pieces were Jane Yusen and Dick Norris, plus Hobie Van Deusen and the redoubtable Sandy Bromwell.Messrs. Cutcliffe, Abraham, Bowman, Spence, O’Hara, Cohen, Hampton, and Wolcott Zoomed in for the class meeting. An overtime win vs. Yale was a suitable filler of the weekend sandwich.

Attempting to reduce mailing costs, we sent postcards to all for whom we have no email address, of which there were 241, hoping to add significant numbers. The surprise was 164 of those were widows and there were “just” 77 classmates. In a cascade of responses, 18 widows and four classmates shared an email address. It’s a sad tale when 18 percent of the class is so disconnected from their classmates they won’t allow us to keep costs down and share an email address. The most recent Sound & Fury was sent only by email.

On a more uplifting note, we received a preliminary valuation of the Class of 1958 Scholarship Fund June 30, and its market value had reached $208,304!

Finally, a note from Pete Danford: “Lou Bloomfield, Jay Davis, and I are still very close friends in Shaker Heights [Ohio] after all these years. Sue and I spend the winter in Sanibel, Florida.”

—John Trimble, 2735 Golfside Court, Naples, FL 34110; jtrim99@comcast.net

Circumstances propel us into surprise roles, and we are sometimes asked to step in and fill a void we hope will be temporary. Steve Quickel experienced a cardio event in May, a heartrending experience that many of us can relate to, whether through heartache, heart failure, arrythmia, or other heart diseases. As of late June he was rehabbing at his life care community in Media, Pennsylvania. From notes his son, Steve ’82, shared with me, I will pass along tidbits and observations. Send more tidbits, please!

The heartache comes through continuing news of classmate deaths that since Steve’s last column include those of Jim Meeker, Butch Pendergast, Robert Rudolph, David Wark, John Mehl, Arden Bucholz,and Richard Ballinger.

Of a more sweetheart nature, Linda and I had a Florida visit in April with Michele McIsaac, Bob Eleveld’slongtime squeeze, who continues in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but is contemplating a return to her roots in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Prior to our visit Michele had seen Carolyn and John Otis, who are settling back in up in Tampa, Florida. We miss John in an occasional luncheon group that includes fellow soccer player Ward Burian, who splits his time betweenWilliamsburg, Virginia, and Chatham, Massachusetts.

Jim Spence chortled in a recent note: “As a passionate golfer I was excited to shoot my age (84) during the Two Rivers Country Club (Williamsburg, Virginia) Stroke Play Championship this week. Full disclosure: We 80-and-older folks were allowed to play a somewhat shorter course.” Let’s start a wall of fame of others who have done the same!

Steve Dawkins sent a heavier note: “I’m dealing with a health problem that makes it difficult for me to travel. So I stay on my delightful tropical island, Key West [Florida], and enjoy the quiet island life. But I wish I could see the Big Green again and all of you. All the best.” How we wish the same!

Through a chance encounter we heard Harold Knapp continues his retirement in Glen Rock, New Jersey, after a distinguished career in local education.

—John Trimble, 99 Mooncussers Lane, Chatham, MA 02633; jtrim99@comcast.net

Ivy-educated, with little else to do, I’m guessing we’ve all been hitting the books. So what have you been reading lately? A brief review or two will do. Books with really good hooks might wind up in the Sound & Fury.

To prime the literary pump, my own reading has ranged from sublime to ridiculous. I loved Barack Obama’s A Promised Land describing his “go-for-it” presidential game plan. He tells of upstairs life in the White House with Michelle and the kids and grandma. He takes us for global spins in Air Force One. And he writes good, for a Harvard (law) grad. Yet this is only volume one, with more to come!

For more light-hearted enlightenment I’ve perused David W. Barber’s When the Fat Lady Sings: History of Opera as it Ought to be Taught. Chapters titled “Teutonic Tunesmiths” (Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven) and “Italian Sausage Machines” (Verdi, Puccini, et al.) are outdone only by the one headlined “A Cut Above” about the castrati, those unlucky guys who sang soprano back in pre-feminist days. Every Barberian sentence and cartoon is a gasser.

So please send something to help fill this column—and do it now, before you forget which room you are in and why you went there.

As for classmate notes, John Trimble writes that the southwest Florida folks will gather for their winter mini in late March, when spring will have sprung. Larry Weltin, the peripatetic ad agency founder, says he and Marty have moved to South Carolina, next to a Nicklaus-designed golf course. He also sent this witty ditty: “A Navy commander named Zwart/Well-schooled in starboard and port/Suggested that Quickel/With a beard like Ted Bikel/Tweak the name of his ’58 report.” This referenced Ron Zwart’s suggestion to rename class obits “The Quickel and the Dead.” That called for my retort, to wit: “Captain Larry, proud U.S. Marine/After steeping himself in Green/Detoured to Mad Ave./Found new flags to wave/Then settled on a Nicklaus scene.”Not bad on short notice! Yet clearly, the Marines won still another battle.

Sadly, we note the passing of three ’58s: most recently Atlanta attorney Glower Jones;Seattle native Dave Maryatt, who started an eponymous local conglomerate; and Richard Roth, who founded an ad agency in New York City.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net

I am writing just days before the election, so let’s talk instead about the amazing October 3 virtual class of 1958 Homecoming via Zoom staged by John Trimble, Frank Gould,and, most of all, our adopted classmate Sandy Swain-Bromwell, who made two Zooms happen. The annual class meeting in the morning was mercifully brief, with VP Sam Smith subbing for John, who was rehabbing from eye surgery. Treasurer Mike Simberkoff reported we’re solvent and Dave Bradley and Dan O’Hara talked about class projects. The evening cocktail party kicked off with coach Buddy Teevins ’79 talking about Dartmouth football. Then came 60-second pandemic reflections from West Coast eastward. First we saw Hal Douglas in Oregon, then Vicky and Tryg Myhren in Colorado, Liz and Skip Coggin in Illinois, Joanna and Glower Jones in Georgia, Hal Bernsen in Virginia, Henry Hof in New Jersey, and all of the usual New England suspects. Bob Downey in New York said he lost 30 pounds. Someone else reported shooting his age at golf. Sam Silverstein chipped in with words of medical wisdom. We zoomed out to strains of “Dartmouth Undying” ringing softly in our ears on that October evening, thanks to Sandy Swain-Bromwell.

Other classmate contacts include the following. All’s well with Gersh Abraham in Evanston, Illinois, where he hikes five miles daily but steers clear of Northwestern’s campus, where few students wear masks. Coleman Colla continues to send his views from western Los Angeles. A personal delight arose from Ron Zwart’s suggestion last issue to retitle the Sound & Fury as The Quickel and the Dead. That drew an email chuckle from John Cusick,the ’57 class secretary and a fellow Phi Delt.

Sadly, we note the passing of seven classmates: John Diggs, M.D., in Georgetown, South Carolina, who ran cross country; Oliver Witte of Wheaton, Illinois, who worked on the Milwaukee Journal and taught architecture; John Blunt at Village of Golf, Florida, who managed family trusts, including those of his uncle, Carleton ’26, for whom the alumni center in Hanover is named; William DeGraw in Newburgh, New York, in Rip Van Winkle country; and Paul Wysard in his hometown of Honolulu, where he taught at Punahou School; Norm Sylvester of Connecticut, an ex-Marine, advertising executive, and class VP; and Jaegwon Kim in Providence, Rhode Island, who taught philosophy at Brown and other Ivied schools.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

This was written in June, just after the latest Sound & Fury, but I’ll try to keep it as fresh as I can when you read it in August.

Today brought an email from Larry Hampton alerting us that Forbes (my former stomping ground) has designated Portugal’s Algarve (his and Helga’s longtime stopping ground) as the No. 1 place to live after the pandemic. We knew Larry was bright, and this proves it. Forbes cited chapter and verse—year-round sunshine, low-cost healthcare, great beaches, lots of golf courses, affordable cost of living. Says Larry: “You can live in the Algarve very comfortably indeed on $30,000 a year and less elsewhere in Portugal where prices are even lower.” Forbes’ second and third choices are Mazatlan, Mexico, and Cayo, Belize.

Tryg Myhren weighed in with upbeat thoughts: “Terrific newsletter. You and the contributors kept me turning the pages. I’m particularly sad about all of the fellows who died from the virus. But so many good ’58s are still alive.” We’ve had three Covid-19 victims: Brad Hubert, Ev Lindgren, and Arnold Tenenbaum (plus wife Lorlee, lost five days later to the virus). Also missing from our ranks since the last DAM are Frank Blatz, former mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey, in riotous times; Bob Rosenberg, a productive physician-biophysicist whose seminal work on the blood thinner heparin saved lives; Phillip McClanahan, whose no-load mutual funds benefitted clients of a large investment firm; Harvey Bloom, an Oregon physician who sent five kids to Dartmouth, classes ’87 through ’95; Mike Margulies, a linguist who was fluent in five languages, pianist, and pilot; and Rick Martin, a man of divine inclinations who roamed the world with his guitar seeking elusive peace.

Finally, this tongue-in-cheek note from Ron Zwart in late June: “Thanks for continuing to publish the Sound & Fury—the glue that holds the class of ’58 together—including your ‘In Memoriam’ section with touching tributes to the classmates we have lost. With no disrespect to the deceased, and seeking pardon for the pun, have you thought of retitling this section ‘The Quickel and the Dead?’ ”

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

Writing on Washington’s birthday in this election year calls to mind, with a sigh, the caliber of past leaders such as Dr. Franklin, His Excellency George, Honest Abe, and the Roosevelt boys. “A house divided cannot stand,” Abe warned exactly 100 years before we left Hanover, and he was right—then and now.

So what’s new from you? Our snowbird classmates in southwest Florida had their Bonita Springs annual dinner on March 10, with Sandy Bromwell of the Dartmouth College Fund as a special guest, says John Trimble—with a possible “surprise” guest. Maybe some disoriented Philadelphian lured south during his city’s snowless winter.

Two surviving spouses—Joe Jacquet’s Lynne and John Whiteley’s Kim—who’ve long kept in touch sent kind words about the Sound & Fury. A note of thanks also came from Bill Hartley’s Heather Mallinson of Melbourne, Florida, for our coverage of his parting, here and in the S&F. Baltimore-based Morton P. Fisher Jr. wrote that his middle name is Poe, a namesake quoted evermore in the S&F to the evident displeasure of Frank Gado, who reminded us that Herman Melville could write a whale of a lot better. But as pure poetry, Poe stuff is easier on the ears.

For something uneasier, Charlie Pierce suggests The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells. In reviewing Wallace-Wells’ unrelenting 228-pager, he called it “the most frightening book I ever read”—and a must-read.

A pleasant email exchange with Tryg Myhren recalled how on campus breaks we fellow Pennsylvanians dropped him at his boondocks hometown of Palmerton. “No one else from Palmerton ever went to Dartmouth,” he said. Tryg was a New York Times campus correspondent in those days. We also had a memory-refreshing catchup chat with Pete Flowers from Lebanon, the home of Pennsylvania’s famed bologna. Retired physician Pete and Ann now live in nearby Palmyra (she hailing from the same tiny town of Camp Hill as Ted Harris, Terry Doran, George Salkeld, and me).

In memoriam: Mike Bzullack notes the December 16 passing of Jack Conklin, a member of the large Torrington, Connecticut, delegation of ’58s; several guys sent clips of The New York Times of December 17 obit of Don Shagrin,a longtime class officer; and Phil Ranney of Cleveland left us on Christmas Day.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

Breaking news—sort of—as we went to press in October. The College has adopted ’58 vice president Sam Smith’s bright idea to hold all our autumnal get-togethers prior to October 15—midst warmer weather and better New England leaf-peeping. In 2020, for example, the College’s Homecoming (like ours) will be October 2-4, with Penn as the football opponent, instead of a blustery weekend in late October. In 2021 both will occur October 9-11.

Among the highlights of this year’s October 11-13 fall mini were the Williamson awards, presented to Bob Downey and Frank Gould at the Saturday banquet at Courtyard by Marriot—expertly arranged by Frank, of course. Before the football, where we crushed Yale 42 to 10, our crowd was serenaded by the Marching Band at the tailgate in Dave Bradley’s driveway. And before that, at the nearby Black Family Center, president John Trimble ran his usual brisk annual class meeting, at which the following was decided: Class dues remain at $58 for another year; our Dartmouth College Fund goals were set at $210,000 and a 50-percent participation rate; and class project contributions were ratified with a proviso to downscale them as the class headcount shrinks. John added that contributions to the Class of 1958 Scholarship Fund are now large enough to support two students.

Two weeks earlier, on October 1, 11 class officers and committee chairs held one of their periodic conference calls. Treasurer Mike Simbercoff assured us that the class remains solvent. Also on the line were Gersh Abraham, Jack Bennett, Hal Bernsen, Walt Vail,plus Sam, Frank, Dave, Sandy Bromwell, et moi. John wrapped it up by remarking on our remarkable longevity: Four hundred seventy-four of the 763 mostly white, all-male Pea Greenies who matriculated in September 1954 remain. But we do note the passing of six ’58s this summer: Phil Wood of Ada, Michigan, on July 1; Ray Hilsinger of Orinda, California, on July 4; Phil Drescher of Ventura, California, on July 15; Don Voss of New London, New Hampshire, on August 19; Bob Nathanson of Westboro, Massachusetts, on July 23; and Bob Hickin of Washington, Vermont, on September 16.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

John Trimble’s email to the class in June conveyed the details worked out by reunion honcho Frank Gould and treasurer Mike Simberkoff for this year’s fall mini during Homecoming on October 11-13. Festivities have been shifted to the Courtyard by Marriott, away from the Lyme Inn, where we were fiscally blindsided last year. By now it’s probably too late to find a room anywhere near Hanover. But if you’re within striking distance, it might be fun to drop by for a day and touch base with classmates.

Frank says that 23 classmates and spouses attended June’s New England luncheon mini. This year’s speaker, professor Dennis Washburn, discussed a variety of pressing campus issues with them, interactively. Present for the lively give-and-take, besides Nora and Frank, were Brinna and Frank Sands,Ann and Dave Bradley, Robin and Sam Smith,Peregrine and Peter Spiegel,Pat and Jack Bennett,Julie and Dan O’Hara, andCorrinne and Dave Cassidy, Andy Petersen, Craig Haines, Ray Robbins, Ed Olney, Sheila Herman,andMary AnnHayward.

You read it first in our Sound & Fury! Late in 2018 the S&F learned that Dartmouth and Princeton would play football at Yankee Stadium on November 9. Possibly you recall the splashy photo of a gridiron digitally superimposed over the stadium’s baseball diamond. No one else paid much attention.

Now the story has gained circulation. Last season the Green narrowly lost the Ivy championship to Princeton. So the league arranged a 2019 rematch to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first college football game, fittingly in America’s most famous ballpark. It will also celebrate Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary. Of course, this presumes that both of us will field championship-caliber teams this year. Bob Downey’s friends of football will help there.

We note several departures. John Murphy,who edited the S&F for 25 years, died June 9 in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he’d moved to be near family. Leaving too were educator Gardner DeFoe of Kingfield, Maine, on January 25; prosecuting attorney Fred Kosmo of Oxnard, California, on March 13; and my unforgettable physician roommate Lee Wight of Newport Beach, California, on July 14, 2018.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net

But for the Herculean efforts of Frank Gould, turnout at the upcoming October 11-13 fall mini-reunion in Hanover figured to be quite light—coming so soon after our 60th, and with the Lyme Inn, our usual haunt, jacking its rates into the stratosphere. But Frank, reunion organizer extraordinaire, has met the challenge.

Frank presented his 2019 plan on a late winter class officer phone call. On the line were John Trimble in tropical Florida and Dave Bradley in minus-something Hanover. The others were Sam Smith, Mike Simberkoff, Jack Bennett, Gersh Abraham, Walt Vail, Hal Bernsen and yours truly.

This year we’ll shift to the Marriott Courtyard, near the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Frank has negotiated a block of rooms at special rates. The Saturday night banquet there will be served by five-star-rated Maple Street Catering of White River Junction, Vermont. Frank’s also arranged for frequent shuttle service to and from Hanover. We can also view Friday’s Dartmouth Night festivities from the Hanover Inn while munching snacks in a room just off the lobby. Saturday’s class meeting and pre-game tailgate party at Dave’s office are walking distance from the football game against Yale.

Skip Coggin writes that he loved the colorful Hood Museum reopening photos in the February Sound & Fury. He and Liz are wintering in Naples, Florida.

Ward Burian has published a second book, The Creation of the American States. Check out excerpts on Amazon. He and Martha alternate between residences on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Virginia, where Betsy Jo and Jim Spence are Williamsburg neighbors.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net

Blame it on an uncooperative calendar. The October 28 deadline for this column falls on the weekend of our Homecoming mini-reunion in Hanover, so new news and views from classmates gleaned thereat will have to wait for the next Class Notes column two months hence. Alas.

If past is prologue, those of us who couldn’t be there missed a lively Saturday class dinner at the Lyme Inn, arranged by Frank Gould and presided over by John Trimble. Not to mention the pre-Harvard game brunch hosted by Dave Bradley following the class meeting, where Sam Smith and Mike Simberkoff debuted in their respective new jobs of vice president and treasurer. Homecoming postscript from John: The weather was “awful” and the Green “won a squeaker” over Harvard.

We have three departures to report since our super 60th reunion in June. One is the tragic death of Bob Gilges and his wife, Carroll, in a flash flood last spring on their way home from a family function in Virginia. Bob retired in 1995 after a distinguished career in management consultancy at KPMG.

John Kavanagh sends word of Dan Palant’s passing on August 18, 2018, of complications following a fall at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts. The musically adept Dan was John’s roommate in Hanover and lifelong buddy. His tribute to his pal will appear in the next Sound & Fury newsletter.

The most recent death notice from Hanover informs us of Stephen Jay Wilson’s September 6, 2018, passing from causes unknown in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Steve spent his career in the paper industry, where he served in a series of top-level corporate positions.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net

What with recovering from June’s fabulous 60th reunion and sorting through classmate photos and post-reunion reflections, I darned near missed my late June deadline for this DAM column. It would have been the first time in 10 years as class secretary, 60 columns going back to 2008. Happily, the magazine saved some space for the class of ’58 column.

Gersh Abraham and Frank Gould deserved every ovation they received for organizing and overseeing the reunion. Attendance broke above 150, higher than expected. The weather was great, in sharp contrast to the rain-soaked 55th reunion that forced then-reunion chair Larry Weltin to continually revise his events. Pete Kelsey officiated at a moving memorial service for departed ’58s. Hal Bernsen’s post-reunion sojourn in Woodstock, Vermont, was a huge success. John Trimble presided over an orderly class meeting in 105 Dartmouth, at which Sam Smith was elected vice president and Mike Simberkoff was elected treasurer to replace retiring predecessors Norm Sylvester and Jack Bennett. John and yours truly will continue as class president and secretary. More to come in the next jam-packed edition of The Sound & Fury. Dr. Sam’s sex talk played to a packed auditorium of ’58s and ’63s.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net

As I scribble these notes to meet the DAM’s late February deadline, not a single one of us is actually registered for the June 11-14 60th reunion. That process begins March 1, says registration maven Dan O’Hara, who reports still-rising intended attendance. Now, 84 classmates say they plan to come and 59 say they will probably attend. That portends a super turnout when you add all the spouses, family and friends who will also come. But remember: It is still necessary to register. How? Just notify Dan at danoh.lyme@gmail.com or (603) 795-2633. He adds: “The College handles the assignment of dorm rooms on a first-come, first-served basis, so register early.” For further details, contact reunion cochairs Gersh Abraham or Frank Gould.

Our Florida crowd once again held two wintertime mini-reunions during February—both featuring spirited appearances by Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevins ’79. The east coasters met on February 18, the west coasters the next day at Bonita Springs, after which John Trimble filed a report that will run in the March Sound & Fury newsletter. Both minis were attended by classmate Sandy Bromwell, who sent photos also destined for the S&F. There’s not space here to list the attendees, who totaled around 50.

Since the last S&F we’ve lost five classmates. William Caley of Stephenson, Michigan, died on November, 22, 2017; Charles Henderson of Castle Rock, Colorado, died on November 27, 2017; Kynaston McShine, longtime curator of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, died on January 8; Doug Pease of Carmel, California, died on January 16; and John Goodnow of Peterborough, New Hampshire, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, died on February 7.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net

Relax! Reconnect! Reminisce!That’s what our upcoming 60th reunion is all about. Hope to see you there June 11 through 14! That three-word theme—deftly crafted by Larry Weltin—drew a great initial response. Dan O’Hara reported in October that 135 classmates and others would attend, with many maybes. When you read this in December, the drum-beating by Walt Vail, reunion communications chief, and reunion co-chairs Frank Gould and Gersh Abraham will have upped the attendance count considerably. Those four days in June, after the Commencement hoopla in Hanover, should see abundant early-summer sunshine and moderate temperatures. And there’s still time to make plans to attend.

We’re assigned the same comfortable dorm on East Wheelock Street facing the old gym, as at our 50th, near planned events. It’s a great place just to hang out—to relax, reconnect and reminisce! There’ll also be an art exhibit and undergrad memorabilia exhibit in a secure space. But if you sally forth, vans will be available to haul us to meals, banquets and shopping.

Clarification regarding the pre-reunion and post-reunion options—that is, the preceding overnight at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and the post-reunion get-together off-campus (like the delightful three days at Trapp Family Lodge after the 50th): Be advised that both are separate from the reunion itself. You must make and pay for your own reservations. Call the Ravine Lodge at (603) 764-5858 after March 1. When this was written, the post-reunion location hadn’t been determined, Also, Gersh and Frank were seeking volunteers to run it, as well as folks to run the reunion’s art and memorabilia exhibits. Memorabilia? Any personal items from undergrad days that might amuse or interest.

We will have one more “every-fifth-year” reunion in 2023, partially subsidized by the College. But we’ll still convene annually at Homecomings in October, wintertime banquets in Florida and luncheon minis in Vermont. So come to this major reunion if you can! Who knows? As often happens, you just might meet your “newest best friend”—a classmate you never really knew before—while you relax, reconnect and reminisce June 11 to 14.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

As reported in the Sound & Fury by president John Trimble, the March 16 Florida mini-reunion at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant in Naples, Florida, where they brew their own stuff, was a howling success. Organized by Roger Bruttomesso, Bill Cutcliffe andJane Yusen, the attendees also included Bill Allyn, Dave Sharrock, Ned Stedham, Myles Slosberg, Hank Milton, Tryg Myhren, Dave Chapin, Paul Robinson and Sam Smith, with numerous spouses. See the S&F for photos by First Lady Linda Trimble.

The S&F will also have covered the class luncheon staged during Commencement week each June by Frank Gould. Featured speaker was John Murphy, who regaled two dozen or so classmates with memories of his years as a football third stringer for the Big Green. As you read this, you may already have received Frank’s invite this year to the Homecoming mini on October 6-8 in Hanover, to be held during warmer weather and better leaf-peeping than usual. Mark your calendars for next summer’s 60th reunion the second week in June 2018.

Recent communications with ’58s range from encouragement by Frank Gado to explore the College’s $112-million operating loss in 2016 to an upbeat report by Gersh Abraham about fundraising efforts by Dave Bradley in the annual Prouty Bike Race for charity and jointly by Mel Alperin, Frank Blatz, Ben McAdams and Gersh to remember the College in our wills.

Alas, there are many ’58 departures to report. Chronologically, Hugh R. Fox of Lincoln, New Mexico, died August 8, 2016; Louis J. Vallone of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, died October 28, 2016; Samuel V. “Van” Gilbert of Pleasanton, California, died November 1, 2016; Stephen W. Dunn of Goshen, Connecticut, died January 23; Michael J. McKeown, M.D., of Beaverton, Oregon, died January 26; Walter E. Busker of Chicago died February 27; Robert W. Amis of Dallas died February 25; Paul H. Frankel of Oceanport, New Jersey, died February 28; Theodore K. Furber of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, died March 8; and Robert J. Eleveld of Grand Rapids, Michigan, died on March 18, one day after hosting a “NoBituary Party” attended by more than 500 well-wishers.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

Attention, Northeastern ’58s! Don’t miss the annual Norwich Inn luncheon to be staged by Frank Gould on Friday, June 2. The star attraction will be John Murphy,reflecting, says Frank, “on football stories from his days as a third-stringer for the Big Green.” Socializing starts at noon, lunch at 12:45. Who knows when it will end? Roger Bruttomesso told us in February about the upcoming March 16 Florida winter mini-reunion. Previously held at toney country clubs, Roger moved it to the distinctive Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant in Naples. Among the expected attendees (all but one with a spouse): Dave Sharrock, Bill Cutcliffe, John Trimble, Jane Yusen, Tryg Myhren, Paul Robinson, Dave Chapin and Sam Smith.

Note two upcoming big reunions in Hanover. At the October 6-8 Homecoming mini, overseen by Dave Bradley and Frank Gould,we will again pair with the ’57s at the Lyme Inn for the concluding class banquet—with the Friday bonfire, beer and pizza party at Lewiston Station, Vermont, and the Saturday class meeting and pre-football game brunch at Dave’s law offices .

The biggest biggie will be our 60th reunion the week after Commencement in June 2018. John Trimble is looking for a reunion chairman. Care to volunteer? Mark both events on your calendar now.

We note two recent partings. Van Gilbert of Pleasanton, California, died on November 1, 2016. Writes John Kavanagh, “Van, myself and Steve Nichols came to Hanover from Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and remained friends.” Van, a ceramic engineer, moved west when his company was acquired by Kaiser Aluminum.

On December 8, 2016, we lost John Parker of Manchester, Massachusetts, to Alzheimer’s, says wife Libby. A Tuck graduate and Delta Tau Delta brother, John grew up in Waban, Massachusetts, and eventually formed a successful Boston investment company with his brother, Brooks Parker ’55, Tu’56, and served on a slew of prestigious boards. A true man of Dartmouth, John was a highly active alum and his son, daughter and sundry other relatives attended the College. John also chaired the Peabody Essex Museum in nearby Salem, Massachusetts.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

This column was submitted back on October 28 as our Homecoming mini-reunion began, owing to DAM’s oddball deadline. Tonight, says mini-guy Frank Gould, more than 50 classmates and guests will meet at Lewiston Depot in Norwich, Vermont, for beer and pizza after the Dartmouth Night bonfire. Tomorrow we convene for the annual class meeting, Dave Bradley brunch, Harvard game and class dinner. The fall colors will have peaked.

John Trimble reports that Bob Eleveld is Lifetime Achievement awardee of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Bar Association. Bob “sounds terrific” as he rehabs from blood cancer treatments at Ohio State University. John notes that Mel Alperin’s son, Mark ’80, is “in line” to become president of the Class Presidents Association. Friends of Jim Meeker please note his new address: POB 6126, Alameda, CA 94501.

There are two passings to note. Word comes from Bob Bolinger of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of the July 11 death of Clyde Bomgardner in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Dickinson College Law in nearby Carlisle, Clyde was district attorney of Juniata County, where he practiced solo many years. Cack Bittner, Ted Harris, Terry Doran and yours truly competed with him in sports in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area. An NROTC scholarship student, he was buried with military honors. Note too the death August 6 of Hugh Fox, a Hanover High grad who was a member of the New Hampshire bar and specialized in legal publishing.

My heartiest thanks to the 100-plus who responded to The Sound & Fury’s revealing “Class of 1958 Prexit Poll” this fall.

—Steve Quickel, Lima Estates, 411 North Middletown Road, F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net
 

The annual Norwich Inn luncheon reunion on June 4 was a well-attended success. It was arranged by Frank Gould, entertained by the presence of John Murphy and enlightened by Peter Speigel, emeritus chairman of the DHMC radiology department. He gave an after-lunch talk titled “The First Clinical X-Ray: A Dartmouth Experiment.” Even a dubious Murphy said he enjoyed Peter’s presentation. Also present were Craig Haines, Frank Sands, Julie and Dan O’Hara, Pat and Jack Bennett, Sue and Ed Olney, Sally and Ralph Manuel, Sheila Herman, Sally Gundy, Sheila Kabat, Marcia Armstrong, Kent Woodger, Dave Payne, Corrine and David Cassidy, Bob Hicken and Barbara Ann Trowbridge, Ann and Dave Bradley, plus Nora Gould and Peregrine Spiegel. Frank also plugged our Homecoming reunion slated for October 28-30, which he orchestrates too, and features home football vs. Harvard and some new wrinkles. Do come!

A note from Jerry Manne tells of attending “an excellent presentation by coach Buddy Teevens about the coming football season” with fellow Chicago area classmates Gersh Abraham and Skip Coggin. Coach also talked about “significant” NCAA and NFL interest in “Dartmouth’s work to minimize concussions with non-contact practices.”

Marine officer Andy Toorock presided as grand marshal of the Memorial Day parade in his hometown of Westborough, Massachusetts. “The Marines sent some fine gentlemen to honor my dad and the other servicemen,” says daughter Lynn Landers. See colorful photo in the latest Sound & Fury.

It is our sad duty to report several deaths. Dick Pew, hardworking head of our Dartmouth College Fund effort until handing over the job to John Coulter, succumbed to cancer, an ailment he made public last year, in June in Portland, Maine. Andy Thomas of Pinehurst, North Carolina, died in May of his previously reported ailments—having held nearly every class officer job, been named Webmaster of the Year by the College and singlehandedly honchoed installation of the Class of 1958 Clock on Main Street, Hanover. In April Bill Glos reported we’d lost Bob Platt of Mooresville, North Carolina, also very active in class and alumni affairs. Full obits and photos are in the S&F.

—Steve Quickel, Lima Estates, 411 North Middletown Road, F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

As we write in late February, this year’s Naples, Florida, mini-reunion is slated for March 13. Organized by Barbara and Roger Bruttomesso and graciously hosted by Penny and Bill Allyn at their Royal Poinciana Club, the dinner’s early signups included Cynthia and Dave Chapin; Liz and Skip Coggin; Bill Cutcliffe and granddaughter Emily; Allen Ertel’s widow, Kay; Pat and Fred Hildebrandt; Gloria and Vince Hovenac; Hank Milton; Vicki and Tryg Myhren; Wes and Paul Robinson; Barbara and Dave Sharrock; Linda and John Trimble; and Walt Yusen’s widow, Jane, with husband Dick Norris.

Virginia and Pete Kelsey have endowed the directorship position of the Hood Art Museum in Hanover to a sum “in excess of $10 million,” says the College. Wah-hoo-wah! for the Rev. Pete and talented sculptor “Wink.”

We note the passing of four classmates. U.S. Congressman Allen Ertel, who missed unseating Pennsylvania’s governor by just 100,000 votes in 1982, died on November 19, 2015. February’s Sound & Fury carried his full obituary, with the following three to appear in the spring newsletter.

Frank Gado sent us the Boston Globe obituary of Delta Kappa Epsilon brother Jim Sullivan, a Massachusetts real estate developer who died of congestive heart failure November 15, 2015.

John Murphy wrote of Leon Sinclair’sdeath on November 28, 2015, in Olympia, Washington. Pete, John’s fellow grad at Torrington (Connecticut) High School, was a world-class mountaineer and rescue leader who went west to teach literature at Evergreen College—and was a loyal non-graduate ’58.

Charlie Pierce noted the death of close friend Dave Roak on January 27 in Spruce Head, Maine, after a long illness. Widow Sandra wrote that Dave died of frontotemporal dementia.

Skip Coggin and Liz sold their sumptuous home in Naples to live full-time at the Mather, a “lovely life-care community” in Evanston, Illinois, where he plays tennis with neighbor Gersh Abraham. Count Skip and Pete Flowers amongst possible attendees at the October 28-30 Homecoming miniin Hanover.

My own “lovely (and lively!) life-care community” near children just west of Philadelphia is the new place to send ’58 news and views—please.

—Steve Quickel, Lima Estates, 411 North Middletown Road, F-310, Media, PA 19063; steve58@quickel.net

Walter Vail received the latest Williamson Award at the class banquet of the fall mini-reunion during Homecoming Weekend October 9-10. The award—for service to class, college and community—was made by selection committee chair Ralph Manuel. It was doubly fitting since Walt and Scotty were close friends with Peter Williamson,who died just before our 50th reunion, and Susan, who passed away last summer.

For an off-year, the fall mini was remarkably well-attended, according to mini impresario Frank Gould—with 50 classmates, spouses and friends joining together, including Mike Growney, Jack Stromberg, Andy Toorock and Whit Whitham. It’s always a fun three days—from Friday’s class meeting and the post-bonfire pizza bash in Norwich, Vermont, to Saturday’s pre-game brunch at Dave Bradley’s, the football, and the banquet served up by Donna and John Anderson at their Breakfast on the Connecticut in Lyme, New Hampshire.

As noted earlier, Mike Welch was presented at halftime of Saturday’s Yale football game (34-7, Big Green) with the biennial Wearers of the Green award for his outstanding rowing club achievements back when—and since 2000 as two-time individual national champion and one-time individual world champion.

Treasurer Jack Bennett was a one-man-band leading the October 9 class meeting. He was the lone class officer present—president John Trimble and vice president Norm Sylvester being absent for legitimate reasons, and yours truly, as secretary, recovering from a stupid fall in August (nothing seriously injured except pride). Jack did a great job, by all accounts, even cranking out an excellent set of minutes afterward.

A phone call from Tom Maguire of Traverse City, Michigan, brought word of his recent Los Angeles encounter with Dave Bowman. While many ’58s have cut back on activities, Dave’s on a major new venture, as chairman of TTG Consultants/Lincolnshire. Tom and Gladys were out West touring “the last national parks on our list: Kings Canyon, Sequoia, Yosemite and Death Valley.” Dave’s company, with offices all over the Southwest, specializes in facilitating executive and professional outplacement from old to new careers. (See coverage in the last Sound & Fury.) “Dave is well, and so are we,” reports Tom.

—Steve Quickel, 609 Center St., Haddonfield, NJ 08033; steve58@quickel.net

On a gorgeous June 5 two dozen classmates and spouses enjoyed the annual class luncheon at the Norwich Inn served up by Frank Gould. One draw was a presentation by Dave Bradley and his football team mentee, Mike Langman ’17. Mike brought along a video of Buddy Teevens coaching his team. Their message: The green is an Ivy contender.

Another draw was the lively camaraderie. Besides the New Englanders present, outlanders Bob Downey and Sam Smith attended with spouses. Mark your calendar for the three-day mini-reunion during Homecoming October 9-11, another Frank Gould production. Yale will be the football opponent, followed by the class banquet at Breakfast on the Connecticut.

We’ve lost three classmates since the last DAM column.

Journalist E. Allen Soast died March 18 in Demarest, New Jersey. He was a writer and editor for McGraw-Hill’s weekly magazine Engineering News-Record, covering large-scale construction projects around the globe. Allen came to Hanover from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia on an NROTC scholarship and belonged to Alpha Theta.

Another Alpha Theta, Peter T. Hesbacher, died April 8 in Danville, Pennsylvania, from Alzheimer’s. His father was a public health service M.D. and Peter lived in 17 places in his first 18 years, including Burma and India. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and was a professor of sociology and psychiatry there. He also had a collection of more than 100,000 musical recordings and performed statistical analyses for Billboard magazine.

John H. “Jack” Gundy died at his home in Corinth, Vermont, May 26 of prostate cancer. Growing up in Rye, New York, playing clarinet became his passion. Schoolmates nicknamed him “Benny Goodman.” He played in the Marching Band at Dartmouth, joined Sigma Nu and earned his M.D. from Cornell Medical School, where he led a dance band from the piano. He specialized in pediatrics. His last sighting by many ’58s was marching with daughter Josie ’92 in the band that serenaded us in Bradley’s driveway in October 2013. Widow Sally and their family held a memorial service for Jack on August 16 in Bradford, Vermont.

—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net

Department of Corrections: The February Sound & Fury article about the little-known Robert G. McGuire III 1958 Memorial Fund, established after his fatal 1975 auto accident, stated that Mick McGuire was a professor at Harvard. His widow, Georgianna, notes that Mick taught at Howard, not Harvard. She kindly provided additional details for the next S&F. 


There are few jobs Ralph Manuel has not manned in Hanover—from steam table worker at Thayer Hall to dean of the College. To them, we can now add alumni councilor. In February Ralph was elected as one of the three representatives allotted to post-55th reunion classes. He starts July 1.


Sadly, we note the deaths of four classmates since our last column, three of whom were accorded detailed obituaries in the February S&F. These are below.


Ben Cooper, an English professor and dedicated educator, former Psi Upsilon and Dragon member at the College, 32 years a teacher and cross country coach at the Kent Denver School, died more than a year ago, on February 8, 2014. 


George Haines, a career diplomat with postings to many European capitals and to China, Chad and the Caribbean, chief WDBS announcer and Gamma Delta Chi member in Hanover, died on January 22 in Falls Church, Virginia. 


Ken McCabe, construction manager-turned-financial broker dealer in the western United States and “a world-class storyteller,” according to fellow Kappa Kappa Kappa brother Harv Wilson, died on January 26 in Pueblo, Colorado.


Belated word of Andy Ansaldi’s death in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 5 comes via John Trimble, who, with Linda, ran into Andy’s sister, Dorothy, widow of classmate Joe Carter, in February in Florida. Andy, a Sigma Chi and president of the Newman Club in Hanover, was a Tuck-Thayer graduate who joined the construction company of his father, Andrew, in Manchester, Connecticut, eventually becoming CEO. Andy combined creative design instincts with engineering expertise to forge a reputation for the Andrew Ansaldi Co. as a master builder of top-quality custom homes and apartment complexes in the Hartford area. “No shortcuts, no skimping on details,” says one admirer. The label “Ansaldi Built” sells homes, say local realtors. 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net


“Size doesn’t matter!” So says Mel Alperin, our gift planning Chair, regarding bequests to the Bartlett Tower Society. The question came up in the class meeting at the fall mini-reunion. “There is no minimum,” he says. “Any amount is okay!” Besides Mel, our Bartlett Tower Society go-to guys are Ben McAdams, Frank Blatz and Gersh Abraham. Or contact Laura Alexander at the gift planning office at (603) 646-3799.


The October 17-19 fall mini was well attended. Dave Bradley and Bob Eleveld were given Williamson Awards for Distinguished Service to the class and College. The Big Green beat Holy Cross to go 4-1. A southbound train actually rumbled through Lewiston Depot in Norwich, Vermont, as the Friday night beer-and-pizza party was beginning. Pete Kelsey at trackside counted 50 tank cars, noting that this station was where, in 1921, his father had arrived to enter Dartmouth. Also at Lewiston, Dave Bradley’s T-shirted doo-wop quartet harmonized beautifully, one of them serenading Ann Bradley on bended knee. Donna and John Anderson put on a scrumptious four-entree class dinner for about 50 at their scenic Breakfast on the Connecticut near Lyme, New Hampshire. Mini maestro Frank Gould says next year’s Homecoming will be October 9-11, with Yale the football opponent. 


Much in evidence at the mini was Jerry Manne, journeying east from Chicago for the week, during which he dined (successively) with Frank Gado, John Murphy and Sally and Ralph Manuel. It was fun, too, seeing Dan Wilder, meeting John Ryan’s Parisian wife Simone, and visiting with their Virginia Beach, Virginia, neighbors Hal Bernsen and Mary Boone. Sally and Gersh Abraham flew in from their new digs in Evanston, Illinois, to their New Hampshire home in Grantham.


At Friday’s class meeting president John Trimble read the names of 11 classmates deceased in the past 12 months and asked for a minute of silence in their memory. One new passing is that of Barry T. Hildebrandt in Poulsbo, Washington, on February 4, 2014. Barry, an avid outdoorsman who worked in book publishing, entered Dartmouth in 1954, spent two years in the Air Force’s Tiger Program, then returned to finish his A.B., says Susan Hildebrandt.


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net


Calling all fencesitters! Still time to sign up for the October 17-19 mini-reunion on Homecoming weekend. The Big Green will play Holy Cross. Frank Gould has arranged accommodations and Saturday night class banquet at scenic Breakfast on the Connecticut, above Lyme, New Hampshire. Friday John Trimble will preside over the class meeting, with the post-bonfire beer-and-pizza party at Lewiston Station in Norwich, Vermont. Dave Bradley will host his pregame brunch at his law office, where the Marching Band may drop by. 


Gersh Abraham and Sally will be there. They’ve moved to new digs at the Mather in Evanston, Illinois, where Gersh says they are adapting happily—close enough to see old friends such as Liz and Skip Coggin for dinner. Sally’s doing fine.


Andy Petersen and Sharon entertained 29 attendees at Frank’s annual June luncheon mini in Norwich with images from their Appalachian Trail adventures. He’s thru-hiked its 2,200 miles once, Sharon twice! 


Jack Bennett, our alumni councilor as well as treasurer, sent his report and the official minutes of the Alumni Council’s mid-May meeting, at which President Phil Hanlon’s Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative and other campus issues were aired intensively. Well worth reading.


Andy Thomas marshaled at the June U.S. Open Golf Championships (men’s and women’s) at Pinehurst. I spotted him on TV holding up a “Quiet” sign on the 18th green grandstand. For the Sound & Fury Andy sent a photo with Stacy Lewis, a top LPGA moneywinner whom he and Nathalie had hosted in their home during previous Pinehurst tournaments. 


Dan Wilkes reports lunching with David Hoffman and Geof Picket, “both in reasonably good shape after joint replacements. Geof and Betsy have become world travelers. David is trying to revive his golf game. Lynda and I continue to market Evian Facial Spray.” 


Two obituaries to report: Leon R. Goodrich died on February 17. He practiced antitrust law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and supported the Schubert Club, which for 132 years has brought world-class musicians such as Beverly Sills and Yo-Yo Ma to St. Paul. Learned belatedly of Leo J. Fitzpatrick Jr.’s death in San Diego. He was a Thayer engineer who died July 23, 2012. 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net


October’s fall mini-reunion was more intimate than most. Only 40 classmates and spouses attended the delicious Saturday night banquet at Breakfast on the Connecticut vs. 70 in 2012, our big 55th reunion. When the band marched into Dave Bradley’s driveway for its customary pregame concert, Jack Gundy and his daughter were among the clarinetists. Relaxed with folks I always enjoy seeing—Joel Einhorn, Ron Zwart, Andy Peterson. At the game (Big Green over Yale, 20-13), Ron and I sat with Judy and Doug Fusonie, looking eager as ever to play. At the banquet Mel Alperin and Patty introduced their freshman grandson Mickey ’17. Andy Thomas and Gersh Abraham received Williamson awards from John Trimble. Mary Ann and I enjoyed a lively dinner table with Pete Kelsey, Marcia Armstrong, Nathalie Thomas and Andy. Good talk afterward with Ben McAdams and Pat, homeward bound to California from visiting in Maine. Breakfasted Sunday with Patsy and Don McCree on one of Breakfast on the Connecticut chef Donna Anderson’s incredible eggs-something creations; the McCrees are soon headed to Florida until May. 
New class jobs: Dick Pew has become head agent, succeeding Jack Bennett. Mel Alperin now has three co-chairs to promote the Bartlett Tower Society estate-gifting program he’s run alone for 10 years: Frank Blatz, Ben and Gersh. To oversee class-sponsored projects Dan O’Hara has replaced Pete Kelsey for Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, Dave Bradley will continue running our athletic sponsorships and emeritus Gersh will monitor the Dartmouth Global Leadership Program. Joe Kabat’s energetic Sheila, working with new veep Norm Sylvester, has begun an ambitious program of personal contacts to strengthen class ties with other surviving spouses. 
Norm, Treasurer Jack and I attended Class Officers Weekend on September 20-21, which coincided with President Phil Hanlon’s formal inauguration on the Green. He gave an impressive address, as did the two female speakers, University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman (President Phil was her provost) and N.H. Gov. Margaret Wood Hassan. Gersh and I had up-front seats behind the extended Hanlon family. Later former roomie, retired Lebanon, Pennsylvania, family doc Pete Flowers, told me he and Ann were there too. 
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net


October’s mini-reunion at Homecoming drew many fresh faces. Bob Rapp came all the way from Portland, Oregon; Judy and Ted Furber from Eden Prairie, Minnesota; and several from Florida: Joanne and Frank Blatz (Juno Beach), Sandra and Joe Slotnik (Miami) and Bill Yahr (Tallahassee). Up from Connecticut were Joel Einhorn (Roxbury), Margot and Al Greener (Mystic) and Sue and Dave Hoffman (Greenwich). John Ryan came from Virginia Beach, Dave Cassidy from Hanover. All told 50 classmates, spouses and widows were there, including Marcia Armstrong, Susan Williamson and Jane Yusen, all duly elected class members. 


A major bright spot was Dartmouth’s 28-6 win over Columbia in the driving rain, ending the losing streak. Rays of gridiron daylight were quarterback Connor Kempe (two TD passes) and sophomore Nick Schwieger (244 yards rushing, an all-time Green record). Apropos football, Bob Downey will apply his skills as chairman of the new Friends of Football advisory board. “Our friends program is last in the league,” he says. At Saturday’s class dinner ex-footballers John Murphy and Doug Fusonie swapped Bob Blackman stories at our table. Apparently the legendary coach’s saltiest tongue-lashing was to yell, “Holy smokes, Fusonie, how’d you miss that block?” 


The Friday post-bonfire bash in Lewiston, Vermont, featured Dave Bradley and his local doo-wop singers. The pre-game reception at Dave’s law office heard a spirited performance by the Dartmouth Marching Band huddled in dripping rain gear. After Saturday’s class dinner raconteur Murphy told lots of funny stories. Kudos for a great time go to mini organizers Nora and Frank Gould and Ann and Dave Bradley. See Andy Thomas’ Web site for minutes of the long but productive class meeting on Saturday—which, by unanimous vote, will convene on Friday afternoon next October.


Mini regular Hal Bernsen told of being forced into New York Harbor by foul weather on an ocean sail with three former NATO colleagues and phoning up Bob Downey, who invited them over for drinks and dinner at a neighborhood restaurant. Spotting four dozen roses in the Downey hallway with a card to Nancy attached, Hal realized too late they were about to become part of the Downeys’ anniversary dinner. “We went Dutch treat,” he said. One dogged mini regular is Jerry Manne, who still trades soybeans daily at Chicago’s Board of Trade. Others on the floor may be nimbler afoot, but none can match Jerry’s speed at calculating trading outcomes in his head. 


At an October dinner at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Jim Sullivan was honored for his generosity and commitment to St. Francis House in Boston, the largest day shelter in New England. Jim chairs the 25-year-old organization, which serves 800 homeless daily.


John Trimble, chairing the Peter D. Williamson ’58 Distinguished Service Award Committee, seeks nominations for the first recipient of this periodic award for long and distinguished service to Dartmouth at the October 2010 mini-reunion. Contact John at jtrim99@comcast.net or committee members Susan Williamson, Walter Vail, Ralph Manuel or Hal Bernsen.


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org


Here’s a suggestion: Next time you have some news about yourself or classmates, shoot me a quick e-mail at the address below. Input’s been a bit sparse lately. 


Norm Sylvester, after his first Alumni Council meeting as our representative, reported its 89-1 vote nominating Morton Kondracke ’60 and John Replogle ’88 for the two open alumni seats on the board of trustees. There will probably be petition candidates as well for the March 10-April 7 election. Urges Norm: “Regardless of the candidates you support, it’s critical that everyone vote. Historically, a measly 30 percent of alumni vote in trustee elections, and that’s simply not acceptable.” 


Keep up with election developments, including candidate statements, on Andy Thomas’ Web site, which he updates once a month or oftener. Andy’s also spearheading the project to provide the Town of Hanover with a street clock from the class of 1958, which was approved by a near-unanimous vote at October’s class meeting. Andy says, “The town accepted our offer with gratitude and as 2010 began was pondering the best site for it, subject to final approval by the class, with installation targeted prior to 2010 graduation.”


Word comes from the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) in Colorado Springs that Tryg Myhren has been named to the nine-member search committee to find a new CEO for the USOC. Among Tryg’s qualifications is his work on behalf of the U.S. adaptive ski team and Paralympic team. Speaking of skiing, Nick Stevens says that the Dartmouth Ski Project’s book, A Passion for Skiing, should be in print by February. It will include no fewer than 20 members of our class, which voted support for the project in October. 


Howls over the Marriott’s high room rates and substandard dinner last October have led to a change of venue for this year’s October 8-10 mini, which will include the Harvard football game. Frank Gould has arranged for accommodations and class dinner at Breakfast on the Connecticut in Lyme, where many ’58s have enjoyed staying and Peter Williamson has hosted gatherings of Bugatti aficionados. Another change: The class meeting at the mini will convene Friday afternoon instead of Saturday morning—freeing more time for pre-game socializing, shopping or sleeping in. 


Check out the joint letter on the ’58 Web site from Pete Kelsey and Gersh Abraham seeking local mentors around the country for the students working on three-month internships under the Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS) program. Our class supports the DPCS as well. If you want to volunteer or learn more, you can click on the URL following their letter. 


Online you can also get the complete low-down on President Jim Yong Kim’s long- and near-term strategies to strengthen the College’s finances after the 23 percent bear market endowment decline. At http://budget.dartmouth.edu you’ll find of a video of his December 1 presentation and a downloadable PDF of the text with his PowerPoint slides. His next financial report to the trustees will be in February. 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org


Gotta love the class website photo of President Jim Kim with Gersh Abraham and Ralph Manuel in ’58 reunion windbreakers! Gersh says Kim attended a recent alumni event in Chicago wearing his ’58 reunion necktie. Though an ’82 adoptee (his class at Brown), Kim clearly agrees that “’58 is really great.”


Another website must-see: John Murphy’s latest Don Corleone impersonation titled “The Godfather at Keystone.” John catches Brando’s voice and gestures to perfection (my favorite is brushing his fingernails along his cheek). This rendition was filmed at Bob Downey’s annual ski week at Keystone, Colorado, in February. Scroll down Andy Thomas’ home page to view these and other gems.


June 30 is the deadline for this year’s Dartmouth College Fund. Head agent Jack Bennett’s troops are striving to keep ’58 one of the College’s most supportive classes. Also consider, if you can, Mel Alperin’s appeal to support the Bartlett Tower Society in your estate planning. Call Mel at (401) 274-6633 for details. And pencil in the October 29-30 mini-reunion in Hanover, The Harvard game is this year’s added attraction. Come on up, you mid-Atlantic and Tidewater guys. It’s a gorgeous drive that time of year. 


Speaking of minis, mull over these findings from Norm Sylvester’s poll before he became our Alumni Council rep and turned over running minis to the triumvirate of Bob Eleveld, Frank Gould and Sam Smith. It drew 75 responses, roughly 15 percent of the class, half of whom never attended a mini. Travel’s no problem: 73 percent would journey 100 miles plus, 50 percent more than 200 miles, 16 percent across the country or an ocean. Where? Thirty-eight percent favor their home region, 18 percent their home state, 16 percent Europe, but 37 percent are not interested in multi-day or extended travel minis. Cocktail receptions are preferred by 82 percent, those built around educational or cultural programs favored by 65 percent. Cost-wise, 66 percent would spend $100 or more and 38 percent could handle $500 plus. Currently up for consideration: a 2011 mini at the College Grant. Bob, Frank and Sam welcome your input. 


We sadly note the passing on February 22 of John McHugh, M.D., an internist who practiced many years in Holyoke, Massachusetts. A Theta Delt and Glee Clubber, John is remembered by Ward Burian for “his great, low-key sense of humor.” Walt Fogarty recalls him as “a very popular member of Theta Delt who married his college sweetheart Ann,” who died in 1989. John’s Boston Globe obit was nine yards long. His physician brother Edward is a ’54. Belatedly, we’ve learned that Charles C. Winchester, a patent attorney who was much involved the public schools of Milton, Massachusetts, died last October 21. 


Judge Tom Jackson’s op-ed piece in the February 26 Washington Post made a strong case for trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in the Washington, D.C., federal district court (where he sat for 22 years) instead of New York or a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. Tom’s gist: The crimes were against the nation, not one city, and the targets were non-military.


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org


See you at the fall mini October 29-31 with the great new accommodations and class dinner site arranged by Frank Gould. Class meeting is 3:30 Friday, post-bonfire bash is at Lewiston Depot, then a brief dedication at 10 a.m. Saturday of the Class of 1958 Clock on Main Street in front of the Ledyard Bank before pre-Harvard game festivities at Dave Bradley’s law office. We hope Andy Thomas, who spearheaded the clock project, will be recovered from July knee surgery by then. 


Frank and his barbershop quartet gave the legendary Norine Gray a harmonious retirement sendoff in June from her 40-year career as go-to lady at alumni relations. In July Dave, Dan O’Hara and Gersh Abraham again rode The Prouty 100-mile cycling fundraiser for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, pushing their oldest-finishers records further out of reach. Gersh, oldest of all, was seen passing riders on the final hill. 


Peter Williamson ’12, grandson of our Peter Williamson, and Nick MacDonald (U of Hartford), both playing out of Hanover Country Club, qualified for the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship played late August near Seattle. Peter just missed the 36-hole cut; Nick lost his first match-play round in 19 holes. 


Tryg Myhren was honored October 18 at a Lifetime Civic Achievement Award dinner by the American Jewish Committee Colorado at the Grand Hyatt Denver for his longtime efforts to promote tolerance. 


Head agent Jack Bennett says our class posted the fourth-highest participation rate among 76 classes for the 2010 Dartmouth College Fund, with 72 percent chipping in $261,438. Overall the DCF raised $43.2 million from 47.6 percent of alums. 


Chairman Bob Downey’s Friends of Dartmouth Football advisory board raised more than $1 million from 900 alumni and parents in the year ended June 30, vs. “dead last in the Ivy League” in 2008-09 at $350,000. Much support came from President Kim, who “only half-tongue in cheek, thanked me for contributing to two of his favorite causes, Haiti relief and Dartmouth football.”


Neurosurgeon Floyd Robinson of Houston, a survivor of the 1968 Tet Offensive as an Army doc, passed away May 25. Buzz Giles of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, died on August 12, says Dan Wilkes. (See detailed obits on the DAM website.) Bill Van Law of The Villages, Florida, died May 30 of cancer. Linc Mitchell, noting Bill’s work with AA, said one man at the memorial announced emotionally: “This man saved my life!” Tony Gittes died July 21, three weeks after being diagnosed with melanoma. The November 2-3 Canoa International Hang Gliding Tournament in Ecuador will be dedicated to Tony, known as “El Hombre Pajro” (birdman), the first man to hang glide there. 


Obit follow-up: Stanford Medical School held a memorial for Ted Harris August 24. Walt Vail says he and Dick Frisch “had a sort memorial service here on Martha’s Vineyard doing yard work at Ted’s place, knowing he was probably chewing us out for shaping it up—he liked the natural look.” Ex-roomie Ward Burian marvels “how Ted could sit hours on end absorbing difficult technical material.” 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@dartmouth58.org 


Former naval person Ralph Manuel sent a clipping from the Naval Institute Proceedings saying Rear Admiral (retired) Hal Bernsen is participating in its oral history program. “Hal commanded the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf during the Iraq-Iran War,” says Ralph. “I sent them a gift directed to his oral history.” Hal acknowledged interviews but details weren’t available for this column or December’s Sound & Fury (S&F).


Gary Finerty, one of many requesting copies of the 16-page 55th reunion memorial booklet with individual tributes to numerous deceased classmates, commented on his and wife Judy’s multiple knee and hip replacements.


“Doctors do wonders as long as you find the right one,” he says. “We’re quite a pair going through the airport screeners, with TSA folks yelling for ‘female checker, male checker!’ ” (P.S. Copies of the booklet are still available postage-free.)


Butch Pendergast, among folks saying kind words about the S&F and opting for digital delivery, has a good idea: “My wife, Jackie, would love her own copy of the Sound & Fury.” Glad to comply, Butch. 


Pete Kenny writes from Newport Beach, California, “I’m retired from active duty—i.e., working daily—but keep busy relearning my golf swing, reading history and business stuff and working one day a week at my Del Taco franchise unit.”


Hawaii resident Stuart Rice, lately returned to the class list, says, “Mahalo [thanks] for the latest S&F,” but adds that the only face he recognized was Larry Hampton’s. Since 1987 he’s commuted from Maui to anthropological digs near Helsinki, Finland, producing films and videos “yielding a wealth of Ph.D. material in several related disciplines.” Tell us more, Stuart. 


Phil Larson, whose Churchill activities were described in the December S&F, says his favorite Sir Winston quote is: “The only answer to defeat is victory,” uttered during the Nazi blitz of Britain. 


One obituary since last issue: John C. Carton of Spring Lake, New Jersey, died September 23, 2013. John for 51 years was a trial lawyer at his own firm, having gotten his LL.B. from Georgetown in 1961 and served as Navy attorney until 1964.


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net


Not even persistent rain could dampen the joy of reuniting and relaxing at the June 10-13 55th reunion. Chairman Larry Weltin, with his usual aplomb, rolled nimbly with Ma Nature’s punches, moving outdoor events indoors. Spirits were especially high at Sam Smith’s hilarious standing-room-only lecture on “Sex in Our 70s”—before which Bob Downey, in a talk about Wall Street reforms, let slip (to much laughter) that he realized he was “the warm-up act” for Sam. President Phil Hanlon welcomed us on his second day on the job, followed by the tear-jerking strains of “Dartmouth Undying” by the Dartmouth Aires. The clouds parted for the class picture and Charlie Pierce’s moving Rollins Chapel memorial service, and sunshine illuminated the class banquet at the Top of the Hop with President Hanlon back for a second appearance. 


Almost 100 guys attended, many with spouses. Hal Douglas made the round trip from Portland, Oregon, to Boston on Amtrak. Sig Hudson came in from Savannah, Georgia; Fred Pitzner from Las Vegas; Luke Levy from Key West, Florida. Ben McAdams was a happy last-minute arrival from the Left Coast. Widows Marcia Armstrong, Barbara Dodd, Sheila Kabat, Jane Yusen andSusan Williamson were there too. 


At the banquet Pete Kelsey was honored with the College’s prestigious Alumni Award. Joel Portugal, a former Alumni Award recipient, was given the Williamson Award for service to the class and College. Gifting chair Mel Alperin could announce (in Phil Hanlon’s presence) that our glorious class broke the 55-years-out reunion giving record with a nicely rounded $1,000,058.


At the class meeting Gersh Abraham turned over the class presidency to John Trimble. Norm Sylvester was elected vice president, Jack Bennett treasurer, with yours truly re-elected secretary. Webmaster Andy Thomas will continue in that role. The only other notable change is that I will take over The Sound and Fury from John Murphy, who, after 25 entertaining, outspoken years, stunned everyone by announcing in June that he would step aside after his final post-reunion newsletter. Send me stuff, please!


The follow-up trek to Trapp Family Lodge at Stowe, Vermont, drew 16 couples (and one single, Bob Gilges), including Westerners Kit Cowperthwaite, Chuck Dennison, Hal Douglas, Phil Drescher, John Lenssen, Linc Mitchell, Tryg Myhren and Jack Stromberg. Glower Jones and Sam Smith represented the Deep South. Roger Bruttomesso reports that ’58s “tripped the light fantastic” to a 17-piece string band. The Strombergs, he added, celebrated a significant anniversary at Trapp.


Next comes the fall mini in Hanover, scheduled for October 11-13, says organizer Frank Gould, with accommodations and class banquet once again at the delightful Breakfast on the Connecticut near Lyme.


Sadly we note the death of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on June 15. Terrific obituaries in The Washington Post and New York Times described Tom as the “burly, outspoken” federal district judge who deemed Microsoft a monopoly and sent D.C. mayor Marion Barry to jail for smoking crack cocaine. Daughter Sarah Jackson-Han ’88 says Tom’s funeral was on July 10 at Washington’s National Cathedral.


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net 


Regional mini-reunionshave definitely gained traction in 2011—with the June 3 bang-up ’58 luncheon at the Norwich Inn, just three months after the great Lakeland, Florida, mini in March. Frank Gould, who runs the annual luncheon (as well as the October Homecoming minis), says 33 classmates and spouses attended. “If noise level was any indication, folks really had a great time,” he reports. 


Luncheon highlight was Dave Bradley’simpromptu report on 2011 football prospects. “We’ve never had five quarterbacks so good at the same time,” enthuses Dave, “and almost all our impact players are back.” He likes Tim McManus ’11, a wide receiver turned QB, as “the most elusive and accurate passer.” Pushing him are Conner Kempe ’12, last year’s starter back from a pot-smoking suspension, and three others—plus McManus’ freshman brother, “who some say will be better than Tim.” 


Larry Weltin, who along with Sam Smith organized the Florida mini, has relocated with wife Marty and Faith, their wonder dog, from Tampa, Florida, to Pinehurst, North Carolina, where “the climate is more moderate and we’re closer to children and grandchildren.” Larry will co-chair our 55th reunion in June 2013 along with Ray Robbins,who is based in Hanover. 


In July Dan O’Hara, Gersh Abraham and the aforesaid Bradley once again cycled the 100-mile segment of the Prouty fundraiser for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. They’re still the three oldest “Century” finishers. Dave said pre-race that Frank Gould and Don McIntyre would ride too. Gersh was just back from his father’s 100th birthday celebration in Westchester County, New York, where the old gent assured 70 well-wishers in a five-minute oration that he’s “still got all his marbles.” Gersh was elected to the board of the Association of Alumni last spring. 


Much progress to report on Gersh’s initiative for classmate support groups. Fifteen ’58 M.D.s rounded up by Mike Cohen andSam Smith for the medical support group now stand ready to field queries in specialties ranging from orthopedics, psychiatry and internal medicine to ob/gyn, cardiology and neurosurgery. To tap this resource contact Mike at mecohen@acsu.buffalo.edu or (716) 634-2565 (home) or (716) 830-5380 (cell). Ready too is the personal support group coordinated by Skip Coggin to assist classmates with difficult nonmedical issues. More on his group and its capabilities in my next column. Or contact Skip at fgciv@aol.com or (847) 501-5401. 


John Trimble, having led the Williamson Award Committee to a great start in its first year, has turned over the chairmanship to Ralph Manuel.Last year’s award winners, Pete Kelsey and John Murphy, have joined Susan Williamson, Hal Bernsen and Walter Vail as committee members. The next Williamson Award(s) for service to the class and College will be made at the October 21-23 mini’s Saturday night class banquet. 


Rooms for the October mini will be held until September 15 at Breakfast on the Connecticut in Lyme, New Hampshire, where, by popular demand, we will again be staying and banqueting. The class meeting is Friday afternoon, with a post-bonfire party at Lewiston Depot, Vermont, on Friday night and pre-Columbia game festivities at Dave Bradley’s law office on Saturday. 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@usinvestmentreport.com 


To online classmates notified in late August that this column was available on our class website: Be advised that there’s still time to sign up for the ’58 mini-reunion during Homecoming weekend October 21-23. On tap are traditional events—the Friday night bonfire and post-bonfire bash at Lewiston Depot and the Saturday football game (Columbia) after Dave Bradley’s pre-game party and band serenade near the stadium. Be sure to make the Saturday night class banquet at Breakfast on the Connecticut in Lyme, New Hampshire. The chow there is superb—not to mention the company! With the class meeting moved to Friday afternoon, Saturday morning is free for socializing and shopping. Get full particulars from Frank Gould (fgould@aol.com) or Andy Thomas (dahtmuth58@aol.com).


Head agent Jack Bennett reports another successful Dartmouth College Fund campaign. The class chipped in $276,606, topping our $200,000 goal by 38 percent, with 74.3 percent participation vs. the goal of 72 percent. “That puts us ahead of 71 other classes,” says Jack. Overall, the College raised a record $44.5 million from 47.7 percent of alumni. Hats off to Jack and his team of 61 agents! 


Class rep Norm Sylvester relates interesting discussions at the May Alumni Council meeting with President Kim and the heads of admissions and advancement (see website). Norm says admission applications have more than doubled to “about 22,000” since 2005, with 2,229 (or 9.7 percent) admitted in 2011. Among them is ice hockey player Morgan Illikainen ’15, whose campus recruiting visit from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was funded by our class gift to the Athletic Sponsors Program. She plays defense and sent the class a charming, hand-written thank-you note. Norm, by the way, was named chair of the Alumni Council’s athletic committee.


“We’re open for business!” says Skip Coggin of the class outreach project he and George Wolcott are getting off the ground. Their mission differs from the medical support group of ’58 M.D.s organized by Mike Cohen and Sam Smith and discussed last issue. Skip and George’s new class outreach project aims to provide a ready ear and helpful sounding board for classmates seeking emotional, moral and other non-medical support. Skip for 10 years has chaired a job-hunting support group that’s helped nearly 100 people in his church and the north shore of Chicago. George, a pediatric neurologist, for 50 years has helped patients and families deal with grief, loss and ethical issues; he’s also minister of visitation at his 3,500-member church in Lincoln, Nebraska. “I see us as someone to communicate with in troubled times—good listeners and facilitators, but not arbitrators, negotiators or money wizards,” says George. For a couple of sincere, willing guys to talk to about troubling issues, contact Skip (skipcoggin@gmail.com or 847-501-5401) or George (gwolcott@ wndstream.net or 402-488-3748).


Sadly we note the deaths of four classmates. Gary L. Albright, date unknown; David Stiles on February 22; Dick Warner, Ph.D. (history), in Asheville, North Carolina, on May 29; and Jack Wolper, M.D., in Scottsdale, Arizona, on March 30. Friends of theirs, please send me obituary info about Gary, Dave, Dick and Jack. 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@usinvestmentreport.com


Talk about a landslide! Jack Bennett won overwhelming confirmation as our next Alumni Council representative by a vote of 151 to 0. With more than half the 295 qualified voters (dues-payers) weighing in, not one voted “no” or filled in the write-in box. Jack will take over after Norm Sylvester’s expiring term and serve through June 2015. 


The huge vote, facilitated by webmaster/listserver Andy Thomas, augurs well for enthusiastic attendance at our 55th reunion in June 2013—not to mention this year’s Hanover gatherings: the June 1 luncheon reunion and the September 28-30 fall mini. (The latter was moved to a warmer date on the Penn football weekend because the College scheduled the late October Harvard game for 5 p.m.) As council vote recorder, I fielded ballots from Tampa to Tokyo (Chik Onodera), with notes from former roomies Steve Dawkins in Key West, Florida, back from a sojourn in France, and M.D.s Pete Flowers, enjoying retirement from family practice in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, with wife Ann, and pediatrician Lee Wight, who’s retired with Jan to Laguna Woods, California—on “the left coast.” Henry Hof, an astute investor who spoke kindly of my investment letter, voted too, as did John Whiteley’s widow, Kim, Joe Kabat’s Sheila and Ed Turner’s Rosemarie. 


Cack Bittner, from his Pocono outpost in Dallas, Pennsylvania, tells of a remarkable 16-year-old Paralympic skier from his area named Stephanie Jallen, whom he’s aided for several years as she downhilled and slalomed her way, with one arm and one leg, onto the U.S. national team for 2014 in Stochi, Russia. Born with congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects (also known as CHILD syndrome), she recently won gold at the U.S. championships in Waterville, New Hampshire. Cack met her via a Shriner’s service project. “Expenses run upwards of $40,000 a year,” he says. “She maintains a full fundraising schedule plus honor-roll status in school.” Stephanie was thrilled when Tryg Myhren, who grew up in her area and is deeply involved in the Paralympics, looked her up at a meet in Oregon. This winter she skied with the team in Europe. Her trainer, says Cack, is an ex-Marine who barks “Get up!” when she falls. Check out www.stephaniejallen.org. 


Cack and Joanne had a ball last summer house-sitting at Larry Hampton’s awesome farmhouse/villa in the Algarve region of southern Portugal—traveling the Iberian peninsula, basking at the pool, playing golf and enjoying the car, housekeeper and parts of the wine cellar approved by Larry. Larry and Helga want to downsize in the Algarve and again need a sitter to show around buyers while they summer at their place in Wimbledon. In February they were still looking for ’58s who could sit from late June to September.


Carter Elwood, noted Russia scholar at Carleton University in Ottawa, has published a book titled The Non-Geometric Lenin in which he exposes the Bolshevik leader’s mistakes and cover-ups. Another recent ’58 author, the indefatigable John Murphy, waxes amusing and insightful in May I Approach the Bench? about his courtroom adventures—deftly edited by Frank Gado.


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@usinvestmentreport.com 


Our June 10-13 55th reunion draws near. Chairman Larry Weltin foresees a great turnout based on the “intent” cards returned so far—both in Hanover and at Trapp Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, June 13-14. Recently added attractions: Athletic Director Harry Sheehy, a master of one-liners, and entertainment by the Dartmouth Aires and the North Country Chordsmen, a barbershop group. Hal Douglas and Jeannine will attend from Portland, Oregon, “the Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.” From the opposite direction, Portugal’s Algarve, Larry Hampton and Helga will join us. How about you too? 


Channel surfing recently here in New Hope, Pennsylvania, I suddenly found myself watching the Dartmouth hockey team beat up on Vermont in Hanover and looking mighty impressive. So I asked Dave Chapin, our 1957-58 hockey captain and avid follower of the team, for his take. Replied Chapes: “This is the best Dartmouth team I have seen in 10 years—big, fast and quick. The only thing missing is the Indian patch on their jerseys.” Dave, living in hometown Wellesley, Massachusetts, took a business partner at his Chapin Properties Team firm to a game in Hanover. The friend exclaimed on seeing Dartmouth for the first time: “What a great place to go school!” Amen, brother Chapin.


After Hurricane Sandy Dexter Faunce called to notify me of Dick Jacob’s death on October 22. They’ve been close friends on the New Jersey shore for years. Asked how he fared in his Ocean City home 100 yards from the Atlantic, Dexter said: “Gov. Christie made us evacuate early. But we were well-prepared, thanks to the 100-mph derecho that struck us last May, uprooting 750 trees at our golf club and knocking out power for 10 days.”


Sandy was a comparative breeze. A derecho, says Wikipedia, is Spanish for a widespread, long-lived, straight-line windstorm associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms.” Of Dick Jacob, Dexter noted, “He was CIA and privately told me some stories I can’t repeat.” 


Other recent departures: Bob Dudley on October 21 at home in Liverpool, New York, along the Saint Lawrence, where he fished and boated and was a collector and dealer of antiques. John Quinton of Lisle, Illinois, January 15, 2012 (we learned in November), whose Chicago Tribune obit reported that he “became an avid runner at 40” and completed more than 500 races, including 28 marathons.


Over lunch with Joanne and Cack Bittner in December, Mary Ann and I learned that Palmer Beasley was Cack’s freshman roommate in Topliff. That experience didn’t stop Dr. Beasley from his hepatitis B work that his August New York Times obit said “saved millions of lives.”


Just back from visiting Nathalie and Andy Thomas in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Cack updated me on Stephanie Jallen, the remarkable 16-year-old Special Olympics skier from his Dallas, Pennsylvania, area who races slalom and downhill with one leg and one arm. This winter she’s training with the U.S. team for the 2014 Games in Russia. As reported here last spring, Cack and Dallas friends support Stephanie in various ways.


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net 


There’s still time to sign up for the March 14-15 mini-reunion in Lakeland, Florida, halfway between Tampa and Orlando. Besides a Tuesday afternoon Red Sox-Tigers spring training game planners Sam Smith and Larry Weltin have lined up two nights at the Lakeland Terrace Hotel, with an arrival reception on Monday, the 14th, and a Tuesday morning tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright buildings at nearby Florida Southern College. Tuesday’s cocktail party and banquet will feature a talk by Thad Seymour. 


Fall mini follow-up: More than 60 attended and loved the new accommodations at Breakfast on the Connecticut in Lyme, New Hampshire. Friday morning Gersh Abraham and I found Hal Bernsen, John Ryan, Pete Kelsey and Jerry Manne convened at the Dartmouth Bookstore—ogling the new Class of 1958 Clock across the street in front of the Ledyard Bank. The dedication on Saturday morning was well-attended by classmates, wives and representatives from the College and Town of Hanover, plus Ted Harris’ youngest son Chandler from Thetford Center, Vermont. At the marvelous class dinner on Saturday at Breakfast on the ConnecticutPete Kelsey and John Murphy were named the first recipients of the class’ new Williamson Award in honor Peter Williamson. 


Fred Pitzner told me over breakfast about his 1,000-mile ride on his new 900-pound Harley motorcycle from Las Vegas, Nevada, through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and home again. Toughest challenge is handling the big bike at slow speeds, which Fred solved with stabilizing wheels that kick into place at a pre-set speed. Lawyer Tom Maguire, in from Traverse City, Michigan, withwife Gladys, said it took him six years to complete his retirement from the lengthy disaster lawsuits in which he specialized. I mentioned loving the upper Michigan lawyer film Anatomy of a Murder, but Tom said the favorite movie among lawyers themselves is the hilarious My Cousin Vinny in which an inexperienced, loudmouth New York lawyer (Joe Pesci) ventures (with Marisa Tomei) into small-town Alabama to defend a college-age nephew and friend on murder charges. At our class dinner table Dave Hoffman’s spirited spouse, Susan, led an amusing, often revealing roundtable discussion of marital experiences—including their own and those of Anni and Norm Sylvester, Barbara and Roger Bruttomesso, and Mel Alperin and me, the two singles present. Mostly, but not always, the couples agreed. Much fun! 


At Princeton on November 20 President Kim invited alums for “a perfectly civilized complimentary brunch” before the football game to introduce newly hired athletic director Harry Sheehy. By my guesstimate more than 300 took him up on it—including Joanne and Frank Blatz and Nancy and Bob Downey. The lanky Sheehy, besides his talents as a basketball star, coach and AD at Williams, comes well-equipped with witty one-liners. “President Kim told me he expects Ivy championships in every sport,” he said. “I replied, ‘Thank you, sir, for the 42-year contract.’ ”


From Jim Riffle came sad word just before Christmas that Dave Moss, stellar offensive end and NFL umpire, “passed away peacefully on December 16, 2010, with his kids and wife Judy at his side.” 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@usinvestmentreport.com 


Mark your calendars now—both for this year’s brilliantly rescued fall mini and next June’s 55th reunion. The fall mini was saved after the College, without consulting us, scheduled the October Homecoming football game for Saturday evening under the lights, just as we’d have convened for our annual class banquet. Organizer Frank Gould, rallying a spirited round of e-mails, came up with a perfect solution: Move the mini to September 28-30. Warmer weather, a Penn game at home, plus the usual Lewiston Depot gathering and class meeting Friday, and pregame blast at Dave Bradley’s—everything save the often-tedious march up Main Street to the bonfire—topped off by another scrumptious Saturday banquet at Breakfast on the Connecticut (which is holding rooms for us till September 1). Send your entire reservation form to treasurer Andy Thomas and join us. 


Our 55th reunion is next June 10-13 in Hanover (Sunday to Wednesday after Commencement).


Says chairman Larry Weltin: “The only other class on campus will be the 1953s celebrating their 60th, so Hanover should be less crowded and more relaxed. We’ll be headquartered at the East Wheelock dorms (air conditioned with an elevator) and class tent in front of Alumni Gym. Besides golf and tennis, we’re co-sponsoring programs with the ’53s. Sam Smith will update his “When Are You Too Old for Sex?” lecture. Bob Eleveld is arranging a stay afterward at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. It will be good friends, good times, good food—another memorable ’58 reunion.


Put the Howe Library on your list of must-see spots in Hanover. Mary Ann and I were touted onto this superb public library on South Street by Ralph Manuel and Ann Bradley, who recently retired after five years as trustees’ chair. Ralph, who co-chaired a $3.5-million capital campaign to expand and upgrade its premises, says the Howe has been rated “the second-best community library in America.” Its collection is extensive—“every book you’d ever need for an English class,” says one admiring undergrad—plus a large section of new releases and pleasure books. Lively library director Mary White runs nonstop special events for adults, teens and children, ranging from lunch-and-books discussions and preschool story times to foreign language play groups and chess tournaments, even a miniature golf tournament along the wide aisles that drew 325 adults and children one March weekend. Mary gave Mary Ann, a leader in our New Hope, Pennsylvania, library, a full tour of the Howe while I perused a tableful of Kindles and iPads and, yes, snoozed in one of those comfy chairs with Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales. 


Also up Hanover way, Dave Cassidy’s wife, Corrinne, made news recently by winning her age group’s world championship weight-lifting competition. At 84 she hoisted 148 pounds! “It was a riot,” she says. “They just kept adding weights and I beat ’em all.” Corrinne got into lifting at a local gym to alleviate effects of spinal stenosis. “They gave me a trophy, a medal and a certificate that I’m a ‘100-percent raw power lifter.’ ” 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; squickel@usinvestmentreport.com 


A big wah-hoo-wah for Andy Thomas,named Webmaster of the Year at the September Class Officers Weekend. All it took, says Andy—joking, I think—was $2,000 from the ’58 bank account he oversees in his day job as treasurer. 


Our fall mini that same weekend drew a record 71 souls, says mini chair Frank Gould, abetted by the concurrent reunion of the (7-1-1) 1957 football team that lured the likes of Gary Finerty, Don Klages and Ben McAdams from nether regions—plus other faraway folk such as Hank Milton from Florida and Ardy and Kit Cowperthwaite from Colorado. The star attendees, though, were Sally and Gersh Abraham, who joined us at both Friday’s delicious sit-down dinner at Lewiston Depot and the superb Saturday banquet served up by Donna and John Anderson at Breakfast on the Connecticut. And we’d have beaten Penn had the game lasted five more minutes, from down 0-20 at halftime. Nice write-up in the program featuring QB Dave Bradley recalling the Bob Blackman days. 


Next big event is our 55th reunion on June 10-12. You’ve received chairman Larry Weltin’s invitation letter and response card to indicate your attendance intentions—including a June 13-14 repeat sojourn to Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, arranged by Bob Eleveld. We’ll be housed in the East Wheelock Street dorms near Alumni Gym with air conditioning and elevators, close to all reunion events. Please return your card ASAP. Contact Larry at lweltin@hotmail.com.


New views in Hanover are the Black Family Visual Arts Center next to the Hopkins Center and the renovated Hanover Inn. Another delight is visiting Hanover’s nearby Howe Library to peruse everything from world newspapers to bestsellers in a cozy setting.


Mailbox items: Dan Wilder has taken up rock climbing, encouraged by two climber sons who compete nationally. Son Matt has devised an unusual “rock candy” type practice wall with handholds of all shapes. Bob Downey, besides unstinting efforts for class and college, caught attention from The Wall Street Journal and Fox Business News for his plan to avert Wall Street bailouts, first unveiled last June in accepting the Keystone Center’s prestigious Founders Award. “It’s my plan, not Goldman Sachs,’ ” he emphasizes. Bob, with gifts chairman Mel Alperin and others, has hatched a matching scheme to spur reunion giving.


Among my happy memories of the fall mini was game-long chatter sandwiched between Andy Peterson and Sam Smith on the 50-yard line; trading yarns with Bill and Ruth Cutcliffe about their erstwhile Cape Cod neighbor Ken Quickel ’61, now decamped to Minnesota; and reminiscing with Michiganer Phil Wood about our 1957 midshipman cruise to Quebec (et les belles femmes) on sister ships in the same destroyer squadron. Good talk over Thursday dinner with other perennial early-arrivers Hal Bernsen and John Ryan of Virginia Beach, Virginia, at the Williamson’s Lyme Inn, along with ace storyteller Jerry Manne who still hangs out at the Chicago Board of Trade and shared ideas on sensible options trading.


Recent obituaries are sadly noted for Pete Herman, Rink DeWitt, Jon Lehman and Jim Orovitz. 


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net