1958

Mark your calendars now—both for this year’s brilliantly rescued fall mini and next June’s 55th reunion. The fall mini was saved after the College, without consulting us, scheduled the October Homecoming football game for Saturday evening under the lights, just as we’d have convened for our annual class banquet. Organizer Frank Gould, rallying a spirited round of e-mails, came up with a perfect solution: Move the mini to September 28-30. Warmer weather, a Penn game at home, plus the usual Lewiston Depot gathering and class meeting Friday, and pregame blast at Dave Bradley’s—everything save the often-tedious march up Main Street to the bonfire—topped off by another scrumptious Saturday banquet at Breakfast on the Connecticut (which is holding rooms for us till September 1). Send your entire reservation form to treasurer Andy Thomas and join us.

Our 55th reunion is next June 10-13 in Hanover (Sunday to Wednesday after Commencement).

Says chairman Larry Weltin: “The only other class on campus will be the 1953s celebrating their 60th, so Hanover should be less crowded and more relaxed. We’ll be headquartered at the East Wheelock dorms (air conditioned with an elevator) and class tent in front of Alumni Gym. Besides golf and tennis, we’re co-sponsoring programs with the ’53s. Sam Smith will update his “When Are You Too Old for Sex?” lecture. Bob Eleveld is arranging a stay afterward at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. It will be good friends, good times, good food—another memorable ’58 reunion.

Put the Howe Library on your list of mustsee spots in Hanover. Mary Ann and I were touted onto this superb public library on South Street by Ralph Manuel and Ann Bradley, who recently retired after five years as trustees’ chair. Ralph, who co-chaired a $3.5-million capital campaign to expand and upgrade its premises, says the Howe has been rated “the second-best community library in America.” Its collection is extensive—“every book you’d ever need for an English class,” says one admiring undergrad—plus a large section of new releases and pleasure books. Lively library director Mary White runs nonstop special events for adults, teens and children, ranging from lunch-andbooks discussions and preschool story times to foreign language play groups and chess tournaments, even a miniature golf tournament along the wide aisles that drew 325 adults and children one March weekend. Mary gave Mary Ann, a leader in our New Hope, Pennsylvania, library, a full tour of the Howe while I perused a tableful of Kindles and iPads and, yes, snoozed in one of those comfy chairs with Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales.

Also up Hanover way, Dave Cassidy’s wife, Corrinne, made news recently by winning her age group’s world championship weight-lifting competition. At 84 she hoisted 148 pounds! “It was a riot,” she says. “They just kept adding weights and I beat ’em all.” Corrinne got into lifting at a local gym to alleviate effects of spinal stenosis. “They gave me a trophy, a medal and a certificate that I’m a ‘100-percent raw power lifter.’”

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