Logo February 2018

President Don O'Neill
8787 Bay Colony Dr
Naples, FL 34108

Newsletter Editor:
Thomas S. Conger
6326 Bonita Rd, Apt H104
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
tcink85***gmail.com

Communication Officer:
Harris B. McKee (Webmaster)
929 W Foster Ave Apt 705
Chicago, IL 60640-1682
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Vice-President :Denny Denniston
266 West 91st St
New York, NY 10024-1101

Vice-President Gerald Kaminsky
136 Harold Road
Woodmere, NY 11598-1435

Co-Bequest Chairs
Red Facher
52 Collinwood Road
Maplewood, NY 07040-1038
David Armstrong
4600 N Ocean Boulevard, Ste. 206
Boynton Beach, FL 33435-7365
Arts & Legacy Committee
Oscar Arslanian
2489 North Edgemont St
Los Angeles, CA 90027-1054
Pete Bleyler
42 Wildwood Drive
West Lebanon, NH 03784
Secretary :Victor S. Rich
94 Dove Hill Drive
Manhasset, NY 11030-4060
Treasurer :Ivar A. Jozus
73 Main St.
Middletown, CT 06457-3408
Mini-Reunion Chairman: Hanover
Maynard B. Wheeler
P.O. Box 538
Grantham, NH 02753-0538
Class Historian/Necrologist
Harris McKee
Co-Head Agents :
Henry Eberhardt
( 727) 289-1681
300 Beach Dr N.E. Apt. 309
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Harris McKee
929 W Foster Ave Apt 705
Chicago, IL 60640-1682
(479) 619-7324
Roger McArt
3421 Ballybridge Circle, Apt 203
Bonita Springs, FL 34134-1998
Mini-Reunion Chairman:
Non-Hanover

Dave Prewitt
and Joan Prewitt
279 Warner Road
Wayne , PA 19087-2156

Women's Committee
Nyla Arslanian
nyla***discoverhollywood.com
Patti Rich
patti359***aol.com
Joan Prewitt
jtprewitt***hotmail.com

(Note that email addresses inWWW are disguised using *** for @ to provide some protectionagainst sites looking for email addresses. Replace the *** with @ before using.)
Class Web Site:http://www.dartmouth.org/classes/61/

Quick Links
Sections: Green Cards,Bartlet Tower Society, Dartmouth College Fund, Newport Mini, Women's Initiative

'61s:, [Arslanian, Nyla], Baker, Bank, Boss, Bull, Corbus, Dale, Dinan, Edwards, [Edwards, Cindy], Eicke, [Eicke, Kathy], Facher, Francis, Ginn, Goldsmith, Haertl, Henry, Jennings, Jessup, Jozus, Kaminsky, Kern, Kroupa, McCrea, McKee, Naegle, O'Neill,Palmer, [Prewitt, Joani], [Rich, Patti], Roussel, Rozycki, [Skuce, Betsy], Sperling, Wesson, Wood

Newport Mini--Hey, kids: a fledgling new year!  2017 cost us far too many dear ones, thus we look to 2018 to be at least a bit lighter on the sorrow front. As Pres. Don O'Neill green-cards: "Have a healthy new year, brother!" So saying, we urge you to hie thee to Newport, RI, for the fabulous mini arranged by tireless Joani & Dave Prewitt. Here's the latest scoop:

Gurney Resort

Resort: To make a hotel reservation, click on Gurney's Newport Resort ( formerly Hyatt Regency ) on Goat Island, Newport Harbor [Webmaster's note: This link formerly automatically provided the Class of '61 code but no longer does so; best to call the number below for hotel reservations.]
Special rate $199 plus tax ( 30 rooms reserved ). Resort fee waived. Free parking. Free shuttle to Harbor, Indoor and outdoor pools, full Gym
           Deadline for reservations: April 20th, 2018
           Call  401-849-2600 (This number is new.) and mention Dartmouth '61 for rate


              
Newport Amenities: Touro Synagogue (oldest in America); French fleet based in Newport during the Revolutionary War; Site of the US Naval Academy during the Civil War; Guilded Age Mansions; Cliff Walk; International Tennis Hall of Fame; Naval War College Museum; US Naval Base, Newport
[sidebar] "You might be interested to know that a number of classmates started their Navy service at the officer candidate school in Newport.  My recollection is that the first class after graduation started on July 18 and included the following '61s: Bob Jennings, Frank Ginn, Don Wesson, Jake Haertl, Wally Palmer, Peter Jessup and myself.  There were over a thousand candidates.  The Newport bridge had not been built, you had to take a ferry to Newport. It was still a thriving Navy base and a Navy town with bars lining Thames Street."  Immediately upon receiving our commission, in our brand new blues with a thin gold stripe, we piled into my brand new 1961 Ford Galaxie hard top, and headed for Hanover.  We had my Wellesley sophomore, Carol, squeezed in next to me.  The only one not to make the trip was Frank Ginn as he had his own car."
 Ivar Jozus

Activities :

Sunday, May 20th, 2018
3:00 - 5:00 PM Registration in Hotel Lobby
5:30 - 6:30 PM Cocktail Reception
6:30 PM Buffet Dinner

Monday, May 21st, 2018
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:30 AM-12:30 PM Guided Bus tour of Newport Island and a visit to a Gilded Age Mansion
6:30-7:30 PM Cocktail Reception
7:30 PM Dinner at Gurney Newport Resort

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 AM History lecture by Ron Heinemann '61
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sightseeing Sailing Trip
3:00 PM Bus to US Naval Base, Newport to visit Naval War College Museum
5:00 PM Class Meetings
5:00 PM Women's Group
6:00 PM Cocktails & Dinner at the US Navy Officers Club with Music and Dancing
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
8:00 - 10:00 AM Buffet Breakfast
               Afternoons free to explore Newport

See Who's Coming: Click on Who's Coming 

Mini-Reunion Reservations
For ONLINE Fillable Click Registration Form  for the Prewitts; 
                   Anticipated cost per person ( excluding Optional activities ) is $450 

As the late Malibu Fatz Miller would say: Be there or be square. 

Have you booked your reservations? Please note April 20 cut-off.  How many more minis do ya have in that ancient frame of yours, old-timer…?

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Green Cards: Right here up front—much appreciated @WWW HQ! 
Ron Boss <ronboss@aol.com> : "All is well in Boss family. Have 3 grandchildren at Dartmouth now. Larson Bennett, a senior, plays lacrosse and now looking for job starting after graduation. Her mom (Martha Boss '89 Bennett) was 2nd team All-America by BRINE (big LaX association nationwide) in her last year at Dartmouth. Another junior male—Trevor Dorman. He is a Dartmouth Aire [fka Injunaires]. Finally Alice Bennett is a sophomore and member of the 'SING' music group. She last year sang at the 75th Pearl Harbor Remembrance + at the White House. I am fully retired and love it. I am on the Dartmouth Athletic Advisory Board."   
Ellis ("Bulb") Naegele <ellismti@comcast.net> : "Bob and I are celebrating our 57th wedding anniversary January 28th.  Only God . . . wonderful memories of our first few months of our marriage living in West Lebanon and spending time with the Kappa Sigs. We tried to get on 'American Bandstand,' but it was easier to watch in the Kappa Sig house with the guys."

 

Naegles
Naegeles Pose With A Real Injun, Dinesh D'Souza '83 . .

Dave Skuce < david.skuce@centurylink.net> : "Betsy and I moved out of California 5 years ago. Couldn't take the politics or taxes any longer. Still have our home up in Fall River [CA], but that's redneck country and suits us fine.  We had so much fun at our 50th with a group of friends from Russell Sage that we started our own yearly mini-reunions. First one at our place in Fall River, second at our home in Tucson, third one at Cartter Frierson's farm in Georgia, last year at Jon Sperling's home on Long island, this year at John Henry's place in New Hamsphire. Bill Bull, Bill Wood, Steve Dale, Barc Corbus, Jud Goldsmith have made at least one of these."  [as Dave & Betsy are now in the environs which John & Cindy Edwards inhabit, we put them in touch and they have reconnected - ed.]

Kolman et al
Arizona Dreamin'… (LtoR) Roli Kolman '60, Charlotte Kumer, Cyndi Edwards, John S. Edwards, MD

Sam Baker <smjbaker@olympus.net> (co-Star Rookie of Reunion w/Charlie Francis @our 40th) sent a newsy green card, to wit: "Martha & I are doing well. Still blessed with good health and a wonderful family. Married 51 years and hope we will have more together. Our son and daughter are teachers, with one spouse a teacher also, and one spouse an athletic trainer. Two grandchildren. Martha plays her flute in the local [Port Angeles, WA] orchestra. I continue to do volunteer orthopaedics in Bhutan for a couple of months each year—13 years now.  How's your surfing? Been a whle since you saw your first snowlflake…!" [Sam followed w/photos (below)]

 

Christmas 2017 The Whole Clan
Christmas 2017—the Whole Clan

Trail Work
Trail Work - January 2018

Morris Banks <mbanks@pullcom.com> was honored with the Connecticut Law Tribune's Lifetime Achievement Award; Harris has posted a nice artcle regarding same on our class website. Click on Banks Award to see. Moe received his LL.M. from Columbia University, and earned an LL.M. in taxation from the New York University Graduate School of Law. He has been selected as a Connecticut Super Lawyer since 2011 in the area of mergers and acquisitions.

Got to reminscing with Denny Dinan about our days on campus, and he was trying to remember if we only had one [pay]phone in each dorm. Your scribe (who, uh, was not calling the Territory of Hawaii every day…) recalled two: one every other floor. In Richardson Hall (oldest structure in Grafton County), an entry basement meant that phone served 3 floors. Then we got to how long/far one had to travel from the middle of the Pacific to Hanover for Bullet Bob Blackman's rigorous two-a-day practices each August. Dennny countered with: "After one Christmas vacation, Fritz Kern and I took the night train from NYC to Hanover. No empty seats, so we traveled in the baggage car. I snoozed atop a box that contained a coffin that contained a corpse." [guess we needn't quip that was the, uh, dead of the night…?  ed.]   Al Rozycki joined the battle, recalling his travails in good ol' Freshman English: "Got a hook +.  Went home to Chicago with a low D—came back and Harris McKee and I commenced the greatest study event in Dartmouth history!  He studied so hard and long (he was failing French) that his self-winding watch would stop.  He passed and went on to do great academics.  I got an A on my final paper—an autobiography.  I preceded the paper with a paragraph stating that this autobiography should be written in the unadulterated style of an immature kid growing up on the streets of Chicago.  No changes in punctuation, spelling, composition—nothing.  I received an A, and Mr Lauer, the Prof, appended a note in red pencil: 'a bold move; clever.  If you knew what you were doing, it is brilliant.  If you didn't, it showed you didn't learn anything in my class!' "
Ahh, the good old days…! Harris submitted a wonderful piece (author unknown) about us "children of the Greatest Generation" which bears reprinting here:  We are the Silent Generation—Born in the 1930s and early 40s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the Silent Generation.  We are the smallest number of children born since the early 1900s.  We are the "last ones."  We are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.  We are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.  We saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans.  We saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available.
  We can remember milk being delivered to our house early in the morning and placed in the "milk box" on the porch.  We are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War.  We saw the 'boys' home from the war, build their little houses. We are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, we imagined what we heard on the radio.  As we all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood "playing outside."  We did play outside, and we did play on our own. 
 There was no little league.  There was no city playground for kids. 
 The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like. 
 On  Saturday afternoons, the movies gave us newsreels of the war sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.  Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines) and hung on the wall. 
 Computers were called calculators, they only added and were hand-cranked; typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon. 
 The 'internet' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist. 
 Newspapers and magazines were written for adults, and the news was broadcast on our table radio in the evening by Gabriel Heater. 
 We are the last group who had to find out for ourselves.  As we grew up, the country was exploding with growth.  The  G.I. Bill gave returning veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow.  VA loans fanned a housing boom.  Pent-up demand coupled with new installment payment plans put factories to work.  New highways would bring jobs and mobility.  The veterans joined civic clubs and became active in politics. 
 The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands of stations.
 Our parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never imagined.  We weren't neglected, but we weren't today's all-consuming family focus. 
 They were glad we played by ourselves until the street lights came on.
 They were busy discovering the post-war world.  We entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a   world where we were welcomed.  We enjoyed a luxury; we felt secure in our future. 
 Depression poverty was deep-rooted.  Polio was still a crippler.  The Korean War was a dark presage in the early 50s, and by mid-decade schoolchildren were ducking under desks for Air-Raid training. Russia built the "Iron Curtain" and China became Red China.  Eisenhower sent the first 'advisers' to Vietnam.  Castro set up camp in Cuba and Khrushchev came to power. 

We are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.  We came of age in the 40s and 50s.  The war was over and the cold war, terrorism, "global warming," and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease.  Only our generation can remember both a time of great war and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty.   We have lived through both. 
 We grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better. not worse.  We are the Silent Generation  - "The Last Ones"  More than 99% of us are either retired or deceased and we feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times"!  Click on Children of the Greatest Generation for on-line posting.
[Think about it . . . ed.]

Coming into current times, Duck Eicke confesses: "F. J. Eicke, Ed.D., Psychologist, has taken down his shingle. What started with a goal of being a high school counselor after release from USAF, moved on to a doctorate from Alabama, internship at the VAMC in NOLA, and academic positions at the University of Mississippi, Oxford and Medical Center, Jackson, and then a full-time psychology practice since 1996 in Byram (south of Jackson), Magee, and Ocean Springs, MS. With a career of varied work spanning 1965 to 2018, it was time. Students, residents in Family Medicine, and patients in private practice have provided some pleasing outcomes and some challenges. Now free to pursue his acquired passions, the future holds continued work on fisheries issues as a Coastal Conservation Association leader, more time on Six Grands devoted to catching more fish, traveling more in our Six Grands on Wheels RV, and family times with his two daughters' families that give him six grandchildren. Now the task of deciding what to do with years of mementos, and then trash what should have been thrown away years ago. Kathy is not sure about having him around more, but wiling to see what comes next…"

Eicke
End of an Era.

In February 2018, Duck received the 2017 Conservationist of the Year award from the Mississippi Wildlife Federation. An Accompanying press release notes: "He is extremely active in the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) at both the state and national levels. Dr. Eicke has been a member of CCA since the late 1980's and originally joined at the New Orleans Boat Show.  He has served CCA as President, Chairman, and continues on the Executive Board. He serves CCA at the national level on the Government Relations Committee and Board of Directors. He remains heavily involved in legislative and regulatory functions for CCA MS by working with the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council and the Mississippi  Government Relations Committee since 2008, as well as on three Gulf Council Advisory panels."

Duck & Immediate family
Immediate Family (LtoR): Karyn, Nic, Johanna, Kathy (with award), F. J., Zach

Duck's Award
The Award.

Staying current, David Haven Blake <dhblake@uci.edu> commented on the McCall mini-mini: "I write to tell the group of classmates who met in McCall, Idaho, to plug me in when there are future get together plans in Idaho or the greater northwest.  My daughter and her husband have lived in McCall as a home base for about 25 years.  Jenni has worked for the US Forest Service for all that time, has moved periodically with the USFS while always keeping their permanent home in McCall, a beautiful spot.  I love to visit them in McCall.  Jenni is currently the District Ranger for a nearly 1 million acre forest north and west of McCall but still in Idaho.
I have been largely out of the loop, except for reunions and fund raising for our class, for six or seven years; because after retiring from the business school at the University of California Irvine, I took on the job as non-resident but often there Dean of the Business School at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan.  It was a fascinating experience, especially how 80 years as part of the Soviet Union had and still has a devastating effect on Armenian culture, personal and societal values, economic health, and governance.  (Not that the US is doing so well these days in some of these areas.)  I believe the university is still looking for a full-time replacement for me after at least three false starts.  Sad to see."
Ken Kroupa responds to [late December] birthday greetings with: "I was doing fine until our kids said Dad - just think - you are beginning your 79th year."  [yes, experience has proved that growing old is not for the faint of heart—but the alternative is so… well, so terminal…ed.]
Which harks up a geat article Pete McCrea submitted from the Weekly Standard from about a year ago—piece titled "Hitting Eighty: LIfe Comes at You Fast" by Joseph Epstein. Opens with lines from Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus
            And last of all, old age lies in wait to besiege him,
            Humiliated, cantankerous,
            Friendless, sick and weak,
            Worst Evil of all.
Epstein: "We smoked cigarettes, drank Scotch and bourbon, and ordered dry martinis, went to work in suits, a small number of us wore serious hats. We carried handkerchiefs. No one born after 1942, a contemporary of mine declared in a generalization that has held up nicely under my random sampling, carries a handkerchief."
It's too long to reproduce in WWW, but make sure to hit this link and prepare yourself to get prepared: Click on Epstein-Hitting Eighty.
                      

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            Dartmouth folk in all quarters are thinking and reacting to current rumbles from Parkhurst re. possibly growing the enrollment coupled with constructing dorms @College Park ("Observatory Hill"). Many of us feel passionately about this. Perhaps the best summation of the situation comes from Gerry Kaminsky's remarks in response to Vic Rich's statement (see '61 Harris Bulletin 12/22/17) of support for growth in order to maintain parity with other Ivies.
Gerry:  "Vic's point about need to expand is what the administration is having all its staff articulate
•I have not heard any feedback from the faculty, and little I have heard from recent students is very questioning
•I have not seen arguments for the size we need to expand to and why that number is appropriate
increasing in size inherently impacts and may reduce, in my opinion, one of Dartmouth's great competitive strengths: Hanover's closeness/intimacy which enables lots of non-class learning experiences
in fact, for years I have tried to support programs that directly enable both students and faculty to take advantage of that strength 
•what importance one decides that has in opposition to the points that Vic makes is what each of us has to consider in reaching their decisions
•the magnitude of this problem I see is shown by the second: namely, as the college grows ,it expands in ways that might negatively impact the physical environment and ease of personal interaction—or in other words, the benefits of the sense of place
I have rarely seen an organization weaken one of its critical competitive strengths with positive results
•as for expanding in the college park area the plan sounds very dangerous
the proposed dorms of about 750 students is, I believe, twice the size of any existing grouping
the impact reduces the last "wild" area near many of the college buildings—a place where in fall and spring many go to do their work and still enjoy the outdoors
•the college faces real needs to upgrade student housing
I am not knowledgeable enough to know what other plans can be developed that  can solve that problem whether we expand or not."
As our Robert Frost statue would be compromised should dorms be constructed where proposed, we harken back to our art contest back in '16 wherein students focused on the statue and crafted visual interpretations thereof. Which lent even greater awareness of a "special place" on campus for which fondness continues to grow. Criminal to lose it, along with other landmarks (Bartlett Tower, the Lone Pine), in an unpopular resolution to a housing crunch which should have been addressed and resolved 40 years ago.

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Dartmouth College Fund. Harris McKee on behalf of Co-Head Agents Henry Eberhardt and Roger McArt provides the update shown below for the Current class DCF status.


Dartmouth College Fund
Class of 1961
February 23, 2018

 

Revenue

Participation %

Alumni Donors

Goals

$215,000

75%

367

Cash & Pledge

117.989

31%

153

Cash Only

117,189

31%

150

Needed to Reach Goals

$97,811

44%

217

We are one of only two classes with a 75% Participation rate which is slightly below last year's record. If you haven't yet made a contribution, please do so now and help the Class Agents with their efforts.

Speaking of Robert Frost:
Fork in road

Or was it Yogi Berra…?

Please do not forget the 2nd Annual Virtual Reunion on the 61st day of this year (March 2) - see the Harris Bulletin and/or go to the class website and click on Virtual Reunion.

For more views of yesteryear, Roz found this in some ancient file online:

Freshman Track Team
Freshman Track 1957-58

Or how about this:

Hawaiians

Hawaiians in Hanover 1959 (LtoR): tc, Rick Giles '62, Mark Hastert '62, Mel Kau '60

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Bartlet Tower Society (BTS) Co-Chair Red Facher reports with two (2) additional members our class is now up to 64 members of the Bartlet Tower Society, 2nd high of all Dartmouth Classes.

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Women's Initiative from Nyla Arslanian and Patti Rich. Calling all Women of Dartmouth 61 (Classmates, please share this with your Mates)

Northeast (Hanover) women are setting the pace gathering often to share and enjoy each other's company. Patti Rich convened the New York contingent in October.  Next in line, we hope, maybe a Philadelphia get together in summer. 

Coming up is the May mini-reunion in Newport, RI. We'll have another Women's Initiative Gathering tentatively themed "Women Never Retire." Joani Prewitt has done a great job in supporting husband, Dave, in planning and organizing the affair.They've put together a wonderful reunion with lots of activities that's more than worth the trip across country. I fondly recall one of Oscar and my first dates was going to the Newport Jazz Festival.  It was also the first meeting with his Dartmouth roommate Ralph Barton and wife, Laura. Seems like yesterday and it was 50 years ago!

As the years go by, the connections we've made and the friendships that have developed at the many reunions are the icing on life's cake.  So, gals, take a look at the schedule and make reservations to come to Newport. You'll be glad you did.

---Nyla Arslanian and Patti Rich

Mai poina. The grim part of serving in class communications: the obits. Was on a flight home to Honolulu to see ancient sis (W'54) when Jimmy Rousel, Jr. '88 posted an e-mail that his dad was in the hospital in perilous condition. The ol' Roach slipped away the next evening. Jas. H Roussel was a rare dude—a man of honor, humor, accomplishment, and love. A stalwart Theta Delt and Dragon, he was an icon of his native New Orleans culture.  A good portrait of his post-Hanover life was submitted by Mr. Wayne Meehan, who met him professionally, and not through Dartmouth:
"Most of you on this distribution list don't know who I am, but I had the good fortune to work with Jimmy…so I thought I would share a few thoughts:
            In the scheme of things, Jimmy and I spent a short amount of time together, but I always felt close to Jimmy (I don't have to tell you that he had a way of making people feel welcome).  We spent many long days working together, a few long nights, many dinners with Puddin,  2 memorable trips to Hong Kong, and always kept in touch. I remember that after I came back to New York after the first round of Bright Field hearings, someone in New York asked me what Jimmy was like.  My response was: "imagine if you could live your life such that you could say anything which popped into your head – and get away with it." This occurred to me because of something which happened during the Bright Field hearings.  We were approaching Christmas, and the woman heading the NTSB investigation canvassed the group about whether we should work through Christmas week or take a break.  Jimmy stood up said something along the following lines: " Ms. ______, you're a married woman – you've been down here for weeks now and I know you need to get back to New York to see that husband of yours."  She paused, (and I sat there terrified about how she might react) but then she smiled and said, "Yes, I do need to get back to New York."   Pretty sure I would not have gotten away with that, but Jimmy had a way about him. 
            As you know, Jimmy had a knickname for everyone.  Mine was "crow."  The genesis was a long night out after the first round of Bright Field hearings where we were both "over-served."  Jimmy said my legs were wobbling like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, so I became "crow".  My story was that I was fine and stable, but Jimmy's vision was distorted.  I think we were both right.
            I spoke with Jimmy around his [late December] birthday. I knew he was having a few problems, but if he knew the end was near, he didn't let on.  He seemed in good spirits.  He even told me that Puddin said she found me a house – my family and I almost moved to New Orleans after my time down there on the Bright Field.  As always, he asked about my wife and my daughter Sammy (whom he always referred to as "the Bright Field baby" since she was born a few months before the accident and spent some time crying in Jimmy's office when my family came down to visit me).  As people do, we both agreed to make an effort to see each other this year.
            I certainly didn't know Jimmy as well as some of you, but I am better for knowing him and he definitely left a lasting impression.  Just last week, I got an extension on something which was due and I told one of my partners that a very wise lawyer in New Orleans once told me that an extension was the next best thing to a win – I think you know who that was.  Through the time I spent with Jimmy, I learned something about what it takes to be a  good lawyer, but more importantly, I  learned something about perspective, the value of humility and the values we should all strive for.  He was one of a kind and, as I have said many times, Jimmy was the "real deal."
            I know Jimmy was a great lawyer but that's not what I will remember – I will remember that he was a great guy.  I will remember when he picked me up for hearings in his beat up mustang with the top down when it was snowing – the top was broken so we drove to the hearings with umbrellas. I will remember that everywhere we went in New Orleans, everyone knew him and was happy to see him.  I will remember that Jimmy and Puddin always made time for me when I was in New Orleans.  I will remember how his lower jaw would protrude slightly when he was laughing at his own jokes, and  I will remember those little hands wrapped around a cold Dixie." Roach Celebration of Life
NOLA Country Club Celebration of Life 2-17-18

We close with more of A.A. Rozycki's fine photography
Christmas Eve 2017

Aloha, and malama pono,
tc


 

 


 

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