1959

Here is recent news from Green Cards some of you filled out and mailed to me.

Jack Daniels writes, "There is not much change in my life. I'm still happily married after 24 years, still swimming and working out daily and doing a great deal of scuba diving in the Northern Channel Islands off California looking for local lobsters and spearing fish." Jack enclosed a picture of a very fit '59 holding a 42-pound halibut he speared 60 feet down in water off Santa Rosa Island.

Kurt Wehbring is retired as a planning and management consultant but very involved with several nonprofits, helping them with—guess what—planning and management! He serves on the board of a women's domestic violence shelter that provides much-needed refuge for women in crisis and helps them become reestablished through counseling and social services. Kurt says it is interesting and rewarding.

Bill Brigiani is another classmate committed to significant pro bono work. Last year Bill received recognition for this from both the New Jersey Bar and the states legal services organizations. That award goes up on the shelf with earlier awards for his mentoring of young lawyers and lecturing on the subjects of drunk driving and municipal court. Bill still collects and services classic cars, although he admits it is becoming more difficult to push them around at this age.

Sue and Norrie Nims had great fun at last fall's Dartmouth-Princeton game while visiting in the East. They are down from Alaska, apparently wintering in Belen , New Mexico.

Pete Collins called to talk about our mutual friend Herb Finch, whose obituary was in a recent Alumni Magazine. We chuckled at how Herb wound up one of Americas few lawyers specializing in solving legal problems in Mongolia. Pete, a longtime Burlington, Vermont, resident and attorney, is now "semi-retired" and "of counsel" to his law firm, going to the office for a few hours each weekday, causing consternation there and "having fun the rest of the time." Fun includes sailing and motorcycling around Vermont. Pete also trailers the cycle to Florida each winter when he and Bernadine head south to warm up.

John Towle Miami Beach, Florida, noticed that two classmates, Kurt Christiansen and Jim Bybee, sent him Christmas cards featuring similar pictures: themselves with their ladies in front of St. Basils Cathedral in Moscow. Kurt was there in May and Jim in August, neither aware of the other's trip. Happily retired John says he is now a "house husband, shopping and cooking in the morning and golfing in the afternoon." When Miami becomes too hot in the summer, the Towles head up to Hendersonville, North Carolina, for cooler golfing.

Art Duggan writes that he enjoyed the articles about our '59 football players but thinks one important item was overlooked: Bob Blackman's Manners Maketh the Man Award. "It was given each year," says Art, "to the player best exemplifying the description. I don't remember who won it our year." Does anyone?

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