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View ArticleCLASS OF 1950 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
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View ArticleCLASS OF 1951 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Dear ’51ers, You are letting the class down. Here is the latest from super-loyal Barney Kathan. Barney gets to all events—he represents us well, and he still has his historic red blazer: “I attended...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1952 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Jack Murray corresponded: “I am still here on in this earth in, to me, the remote year 2023 of the new millennium. Why? I don’t know. They say it’s genes, and not even this is likely. It’s certainly...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1953 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
For those who have not read the fall class notes that are only in digital form, know that our 70th was attended by Joe, Mel, and Woody. Please contact me to identify. Jerry Zackin and his wife, Sandy,...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1954 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Glad to have heard from so many aged but active members of the Class of 1954. I’m Dan Resnick, your current class secretary, scribbling away after Bob Carey stepped down. Bob did a remarkable job in...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1955 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
During my 60-plus years serving as class secretary, my greatest concern was that of not hearing from classmates and thus not having anything to report. So happy to say that thanks to receipt of Jim...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1956 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Slim pickings on the news front, but we have one extraordinary tale to tell. Jim Katis wrote: “Living in Greenwich, Connecticut, at age 90 with the wife of 59 years, Lauma. We are both retired...
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CLASS OF 1957 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Bob Anderson sent me a copy of his seasonal letter to family and friends. He lives in Guemes, a small island off the coast of Washington, halfway between Vancouver and Seattle. Bob keeps busy working...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1958 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Class of ’58, I should not have asked for your escapades when I requested info for the alumnus. I forgot that we old-timers have few escapades. I did hear from John Watson who thanked me for some...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1959 | 2024 | SUMMER ISSUE
Marty Weil reports in from The Washington Post where he is an editor. He is glad to have us doing the editing of elements of the “woke” phenomenon. He allows he may or may not come to the reunion. How...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1965 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Dear Classmates, It was a great Homecoming weekend this year, as there was a big turnout on a perfect fall day. The football team beat Amherst, giving them their second straight Little Three title....
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CLASS OF 1966 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Let’s begin with this wonderful reminiscence from Barry Thomas: “Yesterday, my mind took me back to freshmen English and my struggles with the classics, such as Moby-Dick, with which, as a public...
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CLASS OF 1967 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
I got a nice email from Tony Gaeta. He is now, as he puts it, “long retired.” He and his partner are living by the water in Southport, North Carolina. Here is some of what he wrote: “On a wonderful...
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CLASS OF 1968 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
As many of you know, Lloyd Buzzell died last August. Your scribe for more than 40 years, Lloyd was one of the first recipients of a Wesleyan University Service Award in 1988. We extend our sincere...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1969 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Rick McGauley lives in Orleans, Massachusetts, and has family close. Rip Hoffman resides in Redding, Connecticut, and is a Lutheran minister on call. John Mergendoller ’68, travels, birds, and studies...
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CLASS OF 1970 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Aloha, all. The hardest part of writing this column always is the news of the death of a classmate. And telling you that Seth Kaufman has died is one of the hardest pieces of news I have had to share...
View ArticleCLASS OF 1971 | 2024 | SPRING ISSUE
Aloha, Class of 1971, Continuing with the theme of transitions, unfortunately some are sad. Michael Zuckerman writes, “Yesterday would have been my 45th wedding anniversary with my wife, Evelyn, who...
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