Class Note 1960
Class president Bruce Hasenkamp’s wife, Inta, succumbed to the effects of a stroke and will be missed by all lucky enough to have known her. Mike Nataro lost his bout with cancer.
Meanwhile, Don Belcher reports this news from the left coast, “Just a short note to let you know that after four weeks of good progress in the rehab facility [from a nerve malady], I will be heading home tomorrow. Still a road ahead to full recovery, but this is a major milestone!!”
Bob Farmer, who gained a national reputation as one of the Democratic Party’s most effective fundraisers and who served as national treasurer during four presidential campaigns, has written a book, The Money Guy, which would be a handy guide for anyone aspiring to raise funds for a candidate during 2016’s election cycle.
Perhaps you noted in the January 27 article in The Wall Street Journal featuring Ed Gerson ’35 that he’s down to three classmates now to write about and is 100 years old. We still have a lot more than that about whom we would like to write. But the stories have to come from you. It is true we have one of the best class newsletters, under Denny Goodman’s editorial tutelage, in the pot and it’s a tremendous place to share a lengthy story. But we are reminded this magazine reaches 70,000 more or less readers so if you have a brief bit of news or what not send it to us. Do it! Please. There is a bumper sticker in Vermont declaring: “What happens in Vermont stays in Vermont; but nothing much happens.” When you send us stuff this column is about you, when you do not it’s about me. We know interesting things happen because in the past, we read about a classmate’s grandfather who taught South Korea to set up high schools and a diplomat whose tales of Romania are fascinating. We have a classmate who set up a school in China to educate ignored girls that has led to the recognition of their contributions. Another was a world-famous otolaryngologist. A retired medical doctor drove a taxi cab in Key West, Florida, just because he wanted to. Imagine his stories.
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