Class Note 1955
Class of 1955 is Class of the Year! Jack Doyle is Class President of the Year! We had 29 classmates and widows at Homecoming for our dinners and meetings to celebrate our distinctive honors. Jack was recovering from surgery and vice president Dick Blodgett ran the show for us. Some that joined us were John Dinan, Leon Martel, Paul Mannes, Dave Conlan, Jim Perkins, Pete Buhler, Frank Davidson, Bob Fanger, John Ballard, Brooks Parker and Doug Melville. We sat with Ward Rowley for the satisfying win over Yale! Class awards were presented to Dick Barr and Allen Root. Dick followed up a successful career as an importer of high-end Scottish woolens with several years teaching art history in a Vermont community college and local schools. Dick donated his collection to Saint Andrews College, Aurora, Ontario, where it now resides as the R.H. Barr Art History Library. We remember fondly his playing of “Amazing Grace” on his bagpipes at our reunion memorial services. Allen is professor of pediatrics emeritus at All Children’s Hospital at the University of South Florida. He has held high leadership positions, received several awards in his specialty of pediatric endocrinology, and has published extensively. Notably, his contributions to child healthcare have led to more than 40 infant screening programs adopted by the State of Florida. For Dartmouth he served as district enrollment director and club president and on the Alumni Council. The North Carolina group had a mini-reunion in Statesville September 13 hosted Jon and Mary Anderson and attended by Ed Barry, Dave Conlan, Ken Lundstrom, Tom McGreevey, Paul Merriken, Dave Miller and spouses. Eliot and Elaine Smith joined us en route from South Carolina to points north. New books from ’55 authors: Bill Lenderking, The Soul Murderer, a fictionalized account of the killing of a foreign service officer by one of his colleagues (a real event in 1971); Joe Mathewson, Law and Ethics for Today’s Journalist: A Concise Guide. The Winter Olympics are here. We remember skier Ralph Miller on the cover of the February 1956 Sports Illustrated and Steve Wilson as a U.S. Winter Olympics official, 1980. Sadly we report the passing Ev Borghesani. —Ken Lundstrom, 1101 Exchange Place, #1106, Durham, NC 27713; (919) 206-4639; kenlundstrom@yahoo.com
