Class Notes November/December 2007

Maybe, it was global warming to thank for a perfect mini-reunion weekend in Hanover, peak color at least two weeks later than normal and mild temperatures in late October.

 

Now, we expect weather just as fine when we next meet as a class June 12-15 in Boston, with a couple of days before golfing for those interested on Cape Cod, for our 70th birthday celebration. Dick Foley and Gene Kohn unveiled new details at our class meeting, including one ticket that will allow us to move freely at will among Boston attractions. The hotel will be the Marriott Longwharf, with a special rate of $249 a night (normally it would be $450), with a $139-a-night nearby motel as an option. A clambake, whale watching, a catered dinner at Symphony Hall and the Boston Pops are among other features. Reservations will be taken and money collected as early as January. We hope to see you all.

 

Bob Kenerson playing all the old songs on the piano end our class dinner at the Hanover Inn for the mini-reunion. I enjoyed chatting with Jim Marlowe, defying retirement, still enjoying teaching Dickens at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

 

The night before, a gala reception at Barry and Mary Jane MacLean's new building at the Thayer school. Many in the class seem to still be devoted to exotic traveling. Gene and Judy Kohn, back from Tibet last year, were on the way in November to Jordan and Egypt for three weeks. Russ Brooks recently sailed along the route of Homer to Greece, Turkey and Sicily. I'm off  March 11 on a 73-day-cruise around Africa, realizing a goal of visiting 100 countries.

 

Two class athletic heroes graced the MacLean reception. Chuck Kaufman, nicely recovered from health problems, is back playing softball on a team of  men in their 60s. His position is shortstop, the same as it was at Dartmouth. Chuck is also occupied  helping his son operate a telecommunications consulting company.Gary Vandeweghe, living on theWest Coast, is a partner in Pebble Beach near Monterey, and frequently golfs at Cypress Point in addition to his own club's course in San Jose. Both Chuck and Gary looked  marvelously fit.

 

Bob Phillips was there too. Having completed a Master's degree in American Studies at Columbia, he now busies himself buying and selling companies. And Bruce Clark said he is enjoying being vice president of a homeowners association and has been studying philosophy, reading 60 lectures and recently acquainting himself with Aristotle.

 

There also, upbeat as always, were Rick and Linda Roesch. But they have been having some troubles  lately. Many in the class will remember being wonderfully entertained at our reunions in their beautiful new home just off the Appalachian Trail outside Hanover. But in recent months, there has been disastrous leakage from the roof of the home, rendering much of  the  house uninhabitable. Their insurers have not been terribly cooperative and for now the Roeschs are living in the neighboring guest house.

 

--Ken Reich, 5522 Nagle Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91401, 818-994-9231, kennethireich@yahoo.com