Class Note 1958
A big wah-hoo-wah for Andy Thomas,named Webmaster of the Year at the September Class Officers Weekend. All it took, says Andy—joking, I think—was $2,000 from the ’58 bank account he oversees in his day job as treasurer.
Our fall mini that same weekend drew a record 71 souls, says mini chair Frank Gould, abetted by the concurrent reunion of the (7-1-1) 1957 football team that lured the likes of Gary Finerty, Don Klages and Ben McAdams from nether regions—plus other faraway folk such as Hank Milton from Florida and Ardy and Kit Cowperthwaite from Colorado. The star attendees, though, were Sally and Gersh Abraham, who joined us at both Friday’s delicious sit-down dinner at Lewiston Depot and the superb Saturday banquet served up by Donna and John Anderson at Breakfast on the Connecticut. And we’d have beaten Penn had the game lasted five more minutes, from down 0-20 at halftime. Nice write-up in the program featuring QB Dave Bradley recalling the Bob Blackman days.
Next big event is our 55th reunion on June 10-12. You’ve received chairman Larry Weltin’s invitation letter and response card to indicate your attendance intentions—including a June 13-14 repeat sojourn to Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, arranged by Bob Eleveld. We’ll be housed in the East Wheelock Street dorms near Alumni Gym with air conditioning and elevators, close to all reunion events. Please return your card ASAP. Contact Larry at lweltin@hotmail.com.
New views in Hanover are the Black Family Visual Arts Center next to the Hopkins Center and the renovated Hanover Inn. Another delight is visiting Hanover’s nearby Howe Library to peruse everything from world newspapers to bestsellers in a cozy setting.
Mailbox items: Dan Wilder has taken up rock climbing, encouraged by two climber sons who compete nationally. Son Matt has devised an unusual “rock candy” type practice wall with handholds of all shapes. Bob Downey, besides unstinting efforts for class and college, caught attention from The Wall Street Journal and Fox Business News for his plan to avert Wall Street bailouts, first unveiled last June in accepting the Keystone Center’s prestigious Founders Award. “It’s my plan, not Goldman Sachs,’ ” he emphasizes. Bob, with gifts chairman Mel Alperin and others, has hatched a matching scheme to spur reunion giving.
Among my happy memories of the fall mini was game-long chatter sandwiched between Andy Peterson and Sam Smith on the 50-yard line; trading yarns with Bill and Ruth Cutcliffe about their erstwhile Cape Cod neighbor Ken Quickel ’61, now decamped to Minnesota; and reminiscing with Michiganer Phil Wood about our 1957 midshipman cruise to Quebec (et les belles femmes) on sister ships in the same destroyer squadron. Good talk over Thursday dinner with other perennial early-arrivers Hal Bernsen and John Ryan of Virginia Beach, Virginia, at the Williamson’s Lyme Inn, along with ace storyteller Jerry Manne who still hangs out at the Chicago Board of Trade and shared ideas on sensible options trading.
Recent obituaries are sadly noted for Pete Herman, Rink DeWitt, Jon Lehman and Jim Orovitz.
—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net
