Class of 1958

As our class shrinks, news of its comings and goings (too many of the latter) shrinks disproportionately. Since the last column we have received word of the following classmate deaths: Phalen G. Hurwitz, Peter J. Epstein, Cmdr. Peter B. Dodge, Charles G. Nessler, Frederick B. Bagnall,and Brendan V. McAdams Jr. Obituaries will appear in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine online and have been published in the class newsletter, The Sound and Fury. On a melancholy note, the class had dedicated its recent 65th reunion yearbook to Buddy Teevens ’79 and is delighted to learn of the College’s intention, with much input from classmates led by Bob Downey,to honor Buddy, naming his primary workplace “Buddy Teevens Field at Memorial Stadium.” It is always nice to learn about the love phoenix arising after a spousal death, and we have learned that has bitten Skip Coggin. Coleman Colla (known to most of us as “Butch”) continues to publish an occasional musing called Coleman’s Mental Meanderings available to the inquisitive on Substack. In a recent newsletter its editor (me) mused about human plumbing issues of the late octogenarian era and which washers, Teflon tape, or wrench best assuage leaks endemic to the age. Sam Smith, with his typical wisdom, opined on what tightens the best, with notable side effects, but concluded we all take a million pills already. In that same issue the editor published a picture of the pill bottles cluttering his bathroom vanity and it almost exceeded the capacity of his wide-angle lens! In February, in an attempt to escape the chill of the mid-Atlantic, Mary and Hal Bernsen traveled to Naples, Florida, and were hosted by Vicky and Tryg Myhren,but the weather was more coolth than warmth! They promptly repaired to Cabo St. Lucas, Mexico, where they were pictured with adult Mexican beverages! Once again the class is attempting to pad its reputation as a Dartmouth College Fund record-breaking machine but still needs all the participation it can muster to do that. And although dues and class project contributions are more modest, they pay the bills and fund those projects.

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