Class Note 1949

Punchy Thomas reports that 20 classmates and 15 spouses/companions attended the mini-reunion during the October 15-16 weekend. They were able to see an exciting football game that, unfortunately, Yale won on a last-play field goal. Dave Raynolds (Wyoming), Johnny Everatt (Florida) and Glenda Simcox (Texas) augmented the eastern contingent. Harry Sheehy, the new athletic director who came from Williams, was guest speaker at Saturday’s dinner. Last, but not least, congratulations to John Daukas and Johnny Everatt for winning the Gold Pick-Axe awards.


President Ray Truncellito ran the class meeting with 15 classmates present. We had 226 dues-payers this year, and project 215 for fiscal 2011. The class continues to support the Dartmouth Skating Club, which Mike McGean and his daughter Loren were instrumental in founding and developing into a frequent national champion. My thanks to Doug Thomson for his faithful reporting.


Quent Kopp wrote that Ed Leede bought him lunch at “a magnificent suburban restaurant” when Quent was in Denver for a USA Rail conference in September. Ed is still playing golf regularly after two knee replacements, but basketball and tennis are only memories.


Dean Merrill was thoughtful enough to send along an obituary of Allen Brooks from the Valley News. Allen, who died on August 8, had lived in Hanover since 2003. He had a long and distinguished career as an architectural educator and author, primarily at the University of Toronto, where he taught from 1958 to 1986. He wrote seminal works on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Allen never married and leaves no survivors.


Henry Williams died on February 6, 2010, at his home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He served three years in the Army in Europe before entering Dartmouth in 1946. He was VP of finance for a manufacturer and then CEO of the Berkshire (Massachusetts) Bank & Trust Co. In that capacity he advised Norman Rockwell and later his widow and played an active role, including CFO, at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge. Our condolences to Joan, Henry’s wife of 61 years, and his three sons.


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