Class Note 1941

Hooray! Here are some responses to my plea for news from ’41 survivors!


Henry “Hank” Gunst Jr.: “Gene, please accept my deepest sympathy on the loss of your loved ones. My visit to Hanover for our 70th was an unforgettable experience. I am enjoying good health and am active in business (mostly real estate). Harry Douty and I talk regularly. He visited me in Richmond, Virginia, last year.” Hank, thanks for your condolences and good wishes.


Chester “Chet” S. Williams: “Gene, greetings from Boulder City, Nevada! We moved here from Texarkana, Texas, in 2002 to get away from traffic and hay fever! My hobbies are playing the squeezebox at the local veterans’ home and guitar and harmonica with the Nevada Old Time Fiddlers. I have a grandson, Gavin Williams, who just graduated the University of Houston Medical School, and I would like to give him a copy of your book after I have read it. So please let me know the cost and mail it to me at 582 Lake Huron Lane, Boulder City, NV 89005. I really enjoy your column and keep wondering how many of (us) are still standing!” Chet, I’ll know how many of us are left when all survivors write to me! Look on the Internet for Medicine: A Love Story (Outskirts Press); also you can order from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. It’s $22.50 for the softcover.


Don Hagen’s daughter Elizabeth writes to me that Don had a bad fall about two and a half years ago and is recovering slowly in a nursing home. He wants all to know, however, that he is still with it and mad about “the apples of his eyes”—his new great-grandchildren. He can be reached at his nursing home, St. Joseph’s Place, 160 E. Main St., Port Jervis, NY 12771; via his daughter at his home at 8 Hagen Road, Sparrow Bush, NY 12780; or by phone at (845) 856-1407. Don, hang in there and thanks for the photo with your son Christopher—I can still recognize you!


Thanks to all. Keep them coming.


—Gene Stollerman, 53 Lyme Road, Apt. 10, Hanover, NH 03755; gstollerman2@comcast.net