1958

See you at the fall mini October 29-31 with the great new accommodations and class dinner site arranged by Frank Gould. Class meeting is 3:30 Friday, post-bonfire bash is at Lewiston Depot, then a brief dedication at 10 a.m. Saturday of the Class of 1958 Clock on Main Street in front of the Ledyard Bank before pre-Harvard game festivities at Dave Bradley’s law office. We hope Andy Thomas, who spearheaded the clock project, will be recovered from July knee surgery by then.

Frank and his barbershop quartet gave the legendary Norine Gray a harmonious retirement sendoff in June from her 40-year career as go-to lady at alumni relations. In July Dave, Dan O’Hara and Gersh Abraham again rode The Prouty 100-mile cycling fundraiser for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, pushing their oldest-finishers records further out of reach. Gersh, oldest of all, was seen passing riders on the final hill.

Peter Williamson ’12, grandson of our Peter Williamson, and Nick MacDonald (U of Hartford), both playing out of Hanover Country Club, qualified for the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship played late August near Seattle. Peter just missed the 36-hole cut; Nick lost his first match-play round in 19 holes.

Tryg Myhren was honored October 18 at a Lifetime Civic Achievement Award dinner by the American Jewish Committee Colorado at the Grand Hyatt Denver for his longtime efforts to promote tolerance.

Head agent Jack Bennett says our class posted the fourth-highest participation rate among 76 classes for the 2010 Dartmouth College Fund, with 72 percent chipping in $261,438. Overall the DCF raised $43.2 million from 47.6 percent of alums.

Chairman Bob Downey’s Friends of Dartmouth Football advisory board raised more than $1 million from 900 alumni and parents in the year ended June 30, vs. “dead last in the Ivy League” in 2008-09 at $350,000. Much support came from President Kim, who “only half-tongue in cheek, thanked me for contributing to two of his favorite causes, Haiti relief and Dartmouth football.”

Neurosurgeon Floyd Robinson of Houston, a survivor of the 1968 Tet Offensive as an Army doc, passed away May 25. Buzz Giles of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, died on August 12, says Dan Wilkes. (See detailed obits on the DAM website.) Bill Van Law of The Villages, Florida, died May 30 of cancer. Linc Mitchell, noting Bill’s work with AA, said one man at the memorial announced emotionally: “This man saved my life!” Tony Gittes died July 21, three weeks after being diagnosed with melanoma. The November 2-3 Canoa International Hang Gliding Tournament in Ecuador will be dedicated to Tony, known as “El Hombre Pajro” (birdman), the first man to hang glide there.

Obit follow-up: Stanford Medical School held a memorial for Ted Harris August 24. Walt Vail says he and Dick Frisch “had a sort memorial service here on Martha’s Vineyard doing yard work at Ted’s place, knowing he was probably chewing us out for shaping it up—he liked the natural look.” Ex-roomie Ward Burian marvels “how Ted could sit hours on end absorbing difficult technical material.”

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