Class Notes October 2006

Of the nearly 720 surviving members of the Class of 1960, at least 10 are living abroad, and most of them have for 30 years or more. This classnote is devoted to them.

 

TONY REICHE (no relation to me) is living with his British-born wife near Cognac, 65 miles north of Bordeaux, and, appropriately, he worked 23 years as a director of marketing for , Remy-Martin, the cognac company, before retiring in 1995. A thoroughgoing European, Tony lived in Britain and Holland before moving to France. Today, he remarks, "I'm not rich, but comfortable," He has two daughters and four grandchildren living in Switzerland, and a son in Britain. We got to talking politics, and he remarked, of the Iraqi war, "That's a place to get the hell out of, not being in."

 

RICHARD STREHLE, living in Frankfurt, Germany, where he retired as an international vice president of the Deutsch Bank, said, "My big health bugaboo is my knees, which seem to be wearing out faster than the rest of me," necessitating several operations and hospital stays. But Richard says he still manages to spend a couple of months a year in Italy, his favorite travel destination, and as a member of the Dartmouth Club of Germany, he organizes each year a Big Green hike in the vineyards north of Frankfurt, with wine-sampling along the way.

 

NATHAN WITHAM also lives in Germany "an hour from any autobahn," in a lovely river valley, and has since 1971. He worked 33 years as a social studies teacher in a private school. raised two sons and retired in 2005. He has visited back to the U.S., and owns property in northern Maine. He says he keeps up with Dartmouth and interviews applicants to go there.

 

Two members of the class live in Latin America. JOHN YOULE wrote BRUCE HASENKAMP not long ago that he operates one of the top public relations firms in Lima, Peru, with 25 to 30 clients, including the Peruvian and American governments. Among his firm's advisory functions is to recommend ways to entice cocaine farmers into other pursuits. EDDIE HENRIQUEZ has apartments in Coral Gables, Fla. and New York, but, he remarks, "My main home is definitely in Panama, where three of my four children and 12 of my 14 grandchildren live." I found him in Miami, where his wife, Anita, was about to undergo surgery for a detached retina.

 

PETER GUMP operates a small market research firm in Newmarket, Ontario, outside Toronto. He said he's taking golf lessons from a grandchild, and has no early intention of retiring. Both of his children also live in Canada, where his father moved in the 1950s. Two other Canadian classmates are GUS LEACH and DAVID BOND, whom I've written about before.

 

The two other classmates living abroad are JASON CLARK, working for a college in Uganda, and DAVID SEGAL in Britain. I have neither phone numbers nor e-mail addresses for them and could not reach them on short notice.

 

--KEN REICH, 5522 Nagle Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA 91401; (818) 994-9231; kennethireich@yahoo.com