Class Note 1963

Our class was proclaimed winner of a recent College-wide mini-reunion attendance competition, which earned a cash award from the Alumni Council and a big congrats from outgoing class president Larry Bailey to Barb and Tom Perry, our former mini-reunion chairs, for laying “the groundwork” over the years “for our successful program.”

The award came on the heels of still another amazing mini-reunion, on a rain-drenched late October Homecoming Weekend with Paul Kappel, Pete Suttmeier, Art Williams, and Bruce Baggley among some 20 diners Friday night at Salt Hill Pub; incoming president Sam Cabot presiding over his first executive committee meeting Saturday morning; Dick Booma, Tom Jester, Tom Kraig, and Dan Muchinsky among a small group braving weather at an exciting football win over Harvard; and Jeff and Taffy Nothnagle, Bill and Sheryl Breetz, Bill and Carol Hindle, and Gil and Debbie Knight joining the contingent of 28 classmates, spouses, and friends for dinner Saturday night at Hinman Forum at Rockefeller Center.

No sooner had that weekend ended than newly appointed mini-reunion chair Chuck Wessendorf was booking our class room block at Holiday Inn Express & Suites in White River Junction, Vermont, for the Yale Homecoming in Hanover October 11-12. Bill and Petie Subin shared gorgeous photos of the class trip to Tuscany, November 8-14, which included Sam and Deamie Cabot, John Lehigh and Melissa Clause, Ed and Charlene Mazer, Steve and Diane Lewinstein, Skip and Carolyn Mattoon, Daryl and Joyce Smith, Gil and Debbie Knight, andMary Lord and friend Karen Tederman.

It is a busy year for the Subins, with Petie preparing for cabaret gigs with Paul Binder at The Triad April 26 in New York City and another May 4 in Cape May, New Jersey, and Bill being named our 60th reunion chair, fresh after winning first place in the New Jersey State Bar Foundation Art Show for his painting, New Orleans Street Band. Paul is coming off knee surgery, which he and Shelley Doctors commemorated with a “ring out the old knee” party in New York that included Paul’s Pi Lam brother Adam Heyman and wife Joanne, who are proud of their children, Gregory ’96, Douglas ’98, and Katherine ’05 and seven grandchildren.

Denny Emerson, one-time Olympic equestrian and renowned rider, teacher, and trainer, has published Know Better to Do Better (Trafalgar Square Publishing), subtitled “Mistakes I Made with Horses (So You Don’t Have To).” The book was featured, with photos of Denny’s storied 60-year career, in The Valley News, the newspaper covering the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. Denny continues to teach at his indoor ring in Strafford, Vermont.

Joe Attonito, lawyer and chairman of the board of trustees of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, recently announced $2.2 million in grants to explore and preserve history of Long Island and the New York City region. Dick Suett, orthopedic surgeon, completed his 20th year as trustee of Foxcroft Academy, a private school in Dover Foxcroft, Maine.

I regret to report the death of Barry Blackwell.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com