Class Notes June 2006

The heartening thing is, so many of our class are reaping the rewards of life, through their own efforts or those of wives, children and even grandchildren.

 

Dick Davidson writes that his granddaughter. Rebecca Diane Davidson Wolf, has been admitted to the Class of 2010. Apparently, he is the first 1960 class member to have a grandchild admitted to Dartmouth. His daughter, Judi Davidson, was in the Class of 1982. His granddaughter, who plays the flute and graduated high school with a 3.88 average, chose Dartmouth over many other colleges to which she was admitted.

 

Rebecca passed up a $15,000 scholarship from Oberlin, to choose Dartmouth. No wonder, Dick and his wife, Arlene, report this "with great pride."

 

David Sendler, who retired as editor of TV Guide after its sale by Walter Annenberg, has moved to Florida for a new job, editor of the elite regional publication, Gulf Shores Life Magazine, in Naples, Fla. With a circulation more than 30,000 and so thick with advertising that its monthly issue customarily runs more than 300 pages, this magazine is a big change for him from the crowded Northeast, where he lived and edited so long. Now, he can visit easily such glorious spots as Sanibel and North Captiva islands off Florida's Gulf Coast..

 

Tony Roisman was making plans, as this was written, to go with his wife, Lois, to London for a week in May..Lois, a playwright and poet, who has won many honors is the only American this year to be awarded the Petra Kennedy Foundation prize for humorous writing, to be presented at the Canadian High Commissioner's office in Trafalgar Square in a major literary event and then participate in a Festival of Poetry.

 

Lois also has recently been made a research associate at Brandeis University's Women's Institute. And the best thing is, it will take her away from the Roisman's exquisite farmhouse in Lyme, N.H., for a day only every week or two.

 

Often, the rewards of life include loyal and accomplished children who still have time for the old folks. When I became ill with heart blockages and had to have operations that kept me mostly unconscious for days, my daughter, Kathy, a foundation executive, brought her husband and two children, one a son only a month old, from the Bay Area to Los Angeles for two weeks to live in my house and watch over me in the critical care ward of Good Samaritan Hospital, and my son, David, a Navy intelligence officer attached to the SEALS, took leave to do the same. Their decisions, made under powers of attorney, facilitated the treatment that carried me through barely but in one piece with all my faculties. I'm home now, and the baby, Jack, my first grandson, is home nursing. He is two months old as this is written.

 

Thank goodness for the favors of life that benefit so many of us. And don't miss our next mini-reunion, at Homecoming in Hanover, Oct. 13-15.

 

--Ken Reich, 5522 Nagle Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA 91401. (818-994-9231; kennethireich@yahoo.com