Class Notes

1939

OCTOBER 1984 Richard S. Jackson
Class Notes
1939
OCTOBER 1984 Richard S. Jackson

Sadly we must start off the new season with a report of the death of Tommy Burrell, who succumbed to a heart attack on July 21. We are sad also to record the passing of Dick Ruebling on July 28, after a brief illness.

Although these notes are scheduled for publication in the October issue, they are being written in mid-August in keeping with a brand-new deadline imposed by the Magazine which points toward a more timely publication date. So, if you are reading these words sometime in early October, the faith is being kept.

Before we reach into the mailbag, however, we must put one inadvertent error of this past spring to rights. We were writing about EliotReynolds and by one of those indescribable lapses referred to him as his late brother Ben. Our apologies for this slip of the computer and our frail mind.

George and Ginny Neiley paid us an all too brief visit at our summer quarters in Maine this year, and we took the opportunity to convene with the Dusty Rohdes. A reverse program was initiated by the Rohdes upon the separate visits of Bob and Evie Kaiser and Bert and Sally MacMannis in August. Each was a festive occasion and instead of breaking bread, we cracked lobster shells. The only sad news came from Neiley, who recounted the death of his mother this past May.

Through the good offices of George Hanna we received an article published in The NewHampshire Times featuring Kim Ayers, who, though nominally retired, is president of the Lake Winnipesaukee Association and a former president of the Lakes Region Planning Commission and of the Moultonboro Conservation Commission. The article indicates that Kim is jousting with the governor in an attempt to press for a master plan for control of the New Hampshire lakes, which seems to us to be a sensible approach to an increasing problem.

Bob Clymer reports an orderly retirement over the next two years from his practice of urology at his headquarters in Reading, Pa. The Clymers spend the winter at Pelican Bay, Naples, Fla. Bob sent along a fascinating article he wrote for the Berks County Medical Association which he cites is a "brief swan song" to the approach of retirement.

Perhaps you noticed an article in The Review by Armando Chardiet speaking out on communism in Central America.

Ralph Sperry recently received the "yachtsman of the year" award at Black Rock Yacht Club off Southport, Conn. He is mostly in one-design racing and claims the award must have been for persistence rather than skill, in that he has been runner-up nine times without a fleet championship. Perhaps as this goes to press, he'll have the winner's ribbon for the '84 season.

Bill Coleman writes that he is 100 percent after a bout with cancer. He is retired, but still represents Blue Cross/Blue Shield on a part-time basis in Durham, N.C. Bill and wife run a private boarding kennel for a select group of clients to cover travel expenses when he visits grandchildren.

Les Craig writes from Barre, Vt., that, except for two years in the South Pacific during World War 11, he has spent his time in the employ of Barre Granite Industries, producing cemetery memorials, mausoleums, and various types of granite building work. Les is now retired, has three married daughters, one granddaughter, and four grandsons. His wife Trudy (Nelson), originally of Waltham, Mass., met her husband at Winter Carnival, and married the rascal when properly pursued. Les talks of maybe making the 45th reunion. We also have word that Dick Shaw, the noted barrister from Denver, Colo., and Bill Parkhill of San Jose, Calif., have similar plans to return to the Hanover Plain for the same occasion.

Writes Bill Bachman, "Retirement and I get along splendidly. I really don't know how 1 had time to work." Lois and Bill travel a good deal from their base at Lost Tree Village in Florida. With Ed and Ann Searles, they have taken two glorious Dartmouth alumni trips abroad, and this summer were off to Spain and Portugal, and then on another junket to Scotland and England. Bill says they see a good bit of Margot and Bill Sexton at Lost Tree and sent along a splendid photo to prove it.

Cornie Miller sent us a marvelous Christmas card received from Ernie and BettinaFetske picturing them atop a performing elephant. A real zinger. Incidently Cornie and Janet dropped in oh us here in York Harbor, Maine, after a flat tire had grounded them on the Maine Pike. It was worth a drink, a lunch, and a good chat.

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