Class Note 1955
We write these notes for the May/June issue of DAM in February, when a good percentage of our class is all but buried under record snows and experiencing record low temperatures. It is better to recall how spring would burst on the Hanover Plain—the all but bare trees suddenly leafed out surrounding the Green. It would be Green Key time that spring of 1955. Ralph Flanagan’s band played at the Spring Thing dance and John Vaughn was “Mr. Formal.” As spring advanced we learned that Jere Daniell would give the class of 1955 valedictory at graduation. We moved quickly to complete the work in our major field and begin to study for the comprehensive exams. We thought of graduation, the diverse futures ahead for us and that we would be “safe at last in the wide, wide world.”
Pete Buhler, Weston, Massachusetts, unfortunately has been spending the spring as you read this overseeing the repairs to his home from the damage of seven-plus feet of snow on the roof.
Jerry O’Sullivan happily advised he has not had a snowfall problem in Naples, Florida. He is retired from the family business and continues in a small advisory role. He had been an avid golfer, but the clubs are set aside now. He retains his favorite score card, however, a 78 at age 78. Have you other ’55 golfers done as well?
Jack Porvaznik retired in 2014 after 16 years of service with the Joint Commission as a physician surveyor. In this position he visited and reviewed hospitals throughout the United States and internationally. During this time he and his wife, Eunice (a Mary Hitchcock nurse), were able to work at and oversee a program of mission clinics in Honduras during an eight-year period. This also resulted in a faculty appointment at West Virginia University Medical School. Now, Jack says, “I am adapting to this new and different life.”
Sadly, we report the passing of Joe Giden.
The 60th reunion is June 15-18! Please support Woody Goss’s team for our reunion gift and the Dartmouth College Fund.
—Ken Lundstrom, 1101 Exchange Place, #1106, Durham, NC 27713; (919) 206-4639; kenlundstrom@yahoo.com
