Frances Sheng
Frances Sheng passed away on January 3, 2021 at the age of 95. A full obituary can be found here.
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Christina Crosby passed away on January 5, 2021 at the age of 67. A full obituary can be found here.
View ArticleCLASS OF 1945 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
This column marks the beginning of my 32nd year of secretarial jottings, and I’m nesaki, (Mohawk word meaning “standing on a high hill, looking backwards”). I have climbed and stood, walked, even slept...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1951 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Dick Cadigan ’59 reports that his brother-in-law, F. Kingston “King” Berlew, passed away peacefully at the Highlands in Topsham, Maine on February 21, 2021. He was the son of Herman Berlew ’21, brother...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1953 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Jerry Zachin, having received the Wesleyan alumni magazine the last week of February, felt compelled to announce the birth of his second great-grandson, Alden Michael Roose, just a week earlier in...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1952 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Hal Buckingham informs us of the passing of his brother, Robert C. Buckingham,’49, MD, on December 10, 2020.
View ArticleCLASS OF 1954 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
John K. Binswanger writes: “To say the least we are in a crazy world, but I hope everyone has stayed well. We decided to get away from the winter so went south for a month, which was a great decision....
View ArticleCLASS OF 1955 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
It won’t be much longer before our class notes are at the beginning pages of this section of the Wesleyan magazine! Hard to accept the fact that we graduated so many years ago and that our class number...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1956 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
First, the bad news: We are all twice as old as Tom Brady, and collectively we have not won a single Super Bowl. Next, some good news: We are all twice as old as Tom Brady. I asked classmates...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1957 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Bob Weiner made a cross-country move from Hollywood back east to live with his daughter (and 11 cats) in the Catskill mountains. He is enjoying it all—the beauty of the change of season and the...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1958 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Class of ’58, A generous response to my last email. Tom Mosher and Heidi are in La Jolla, California, and enjoy tennis, bridge, and coast walks. They enjoy good health, but are a little stir...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1959 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
“It’s weird being the same age as old people!” Al Brooks signifies just this separation from our “age group.” The virus eliminated all his 2020 track meets, but Brooksie is determined to keep...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1964 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Steve Baker had two books published in September, entitled The Encyclopedia of Quizzes, Volume 1: Geography and History and The Encyclopedia of Quizzes, Volume 2: Sports, Culture, and Famous People....
View ArticleCLASS OF 1965 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Dear Classmates, Thank you for your responses to the latest request for news as follows: Bertel Haarder from Copenhagen, Denmark: “President of the Nordic Council of parliamentarians, chairman...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1966 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
My class on the rhetoric of great speeches is studying some of the speeches and sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr., which brought back memories of King’s three visits to Wesleyan during our time. In...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1967 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Classmates, let’s catch up on the responses to the first of a number of quiz questions I have posed in recent class notes columns. I asked if anyone knew about Ed McCune, who gave $6 million to...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1968 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
I heard from Jeff Talmadge: like most of us, he “didn’t go anywhere or do anything” in 2020. “A year of patience, resilience and caution. . . . While the world, and especially our beloved country, has...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1969 | 2021 | ISSUE 1
Rameshwar Das co-authored Being Ram Dass, a memoir by his late teacher, “who bridged psychology and mysticism. A neurotic professor, he evolved into a transcendent yogi espousing unconditional love.”...
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