CLASS OF 1950 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
Greetings, Classmates! Send some news! How are you doing? Share a memory. All the best, Bud
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CLASS OF 1951 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
Greetings classmates, 71 years later: Somehow, I have been offered the opportunity to gather and share notes from some of our friends of yore. I’ll start by telling you that Jean and I moved from...
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I am very sad to report that we have lost the leader of our class, Bill Wasch, who died on August 28, 2021. After a decade-plus absence, Bill returned to Wesleyan and worked for the University from...
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I’m sorry to report the passing of several classmates: Phil Olsen died on March 18, 2021, and Sam Brown died on July 21, 2021. Ed Lifset, a DKE brother and a government major, passed on October 22,...
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Terry Hatter wrote to say: “Trudy and I have had all of our COVID shots, and we are hanging in there. Our four kids, four grands, and entire family are all doing well too. However, our older...
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Once again, sincere thanks to Julie for her holiday note informing me of Drew Clemens’s apparent health problem brought on by a small stroke, and the complications requiring repeated rehabilitation. As...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1956 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
I most regretfully report that Tom Plimpton died on September 1, 2021, in Indianapolis. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Judy, and two daughters, Liz and Kate. I last heard from Tom in July. He...
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CLASS OF 1957 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
Hello classmates, Bob Smith here, and I have agreed to be your new Class Secretary. I’m looking forward to all your emails; the more I get the more fun this job will be. If I can do half as well as...
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Class of ’58, I received 10 emails and two phone calls in response to my pleas. Bart Bolton and wife have become great-grandparents. He is now on Longboat Key in Florida where he expects to get...
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“GAMES ARE WON BY PLAYERS WHO KEEP THEIR EYE ON THE PLAYING FIELD . . . NOT BY THOSE WHO ARE GLUED TO THE SCOREBOARD!”—Warren Buffett Great news on the banner to honor the 1959 basketball team. It is...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1960 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
Nici and John Dobson were fortunate to travel to Chapel Hill, where all 13 members of their immediate family had Christmas together. It was a wonderful gathering! Jeff Folley wrote: “Last September, I...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1961 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
John Rogers opens our column with some rhyme: I too am always seeking Remedies for arthritis and pain. At 82 not likely to be found, So living daily with pills and a cane. A recent move from South...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1962 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
With apologies to classmates whose welcome and interesting reports had to be edited down to meet length restrictions: Robin Berrington reported, “Not much changed over the past two years for me as I...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1963 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
Bob Gelbach is still busy. “I’ve been doubly retired for eleven years now, first from Southern Connecticut State University after 32 years in the political science department, and later as executive...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1964 | 2022 | SPRING ISSUE
Hello ’64ers! Several folks have some news to share: Jon Wilbrecht says: “We moved to Jacksonville, Oregon, this year to be closer to our daughters’ families. I’m still able to do business consulting...
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Bob MacLean: “Happy to say I am still in touch with John Dunton whenever there is a relevant rock’n’roll song from the Wombat era, Phil Russell when I need a golf lesson, and Ralph Jacobs during the...
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We begin celebrating the distinguished career of Bill Dietz, his many years of clinical, metabolic, epidemiologic, and policy work devoted to helping us understand childhood obesity. Recently, Dr....
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Classmates, In October 2021, Ted Smith emailed to ask if I had seen The New York Times obituary for former Wesleyan faculty member Dick Ohmann. Ohmann was in the English Department from 1961 until his...
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Sam Davidson, whose exquisite art gallery is in Seattle, touched base with Dick Emerson, a Connecticut lawyer, about Wes’s NESCAC championship basketball team. Noteworthy exchange: Bob Svensk:...
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Nick Browning has “moved full time to Vermont, close to Woodstock where we have a 50- mile view to the east to watch the sun rise over New Hampshire mountains. We love being here, but are thoroughly...
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