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Earlier this year we reported the passing of your class secretary Bob Smith. In Bob’s last email to the Class Notes editor, he wanted to ensure that he shared with classmates that his beloved wife, Betty, to whom he was married for 64 years, predeceased him in March. With the news of Bob’s passing, we received the following remembrances:

Ken Travis: “It is indeed sad that we have lost another stalwart member of the Class of ’57. We will miss Bob’s good-natured humor and gentle, but persistent, solicitations for news. I will always value the times we shared as classmates, teammates, and summer camp counselors.”

Mark Feldman wrote: “Bob Smith will be sorely missed. His children and their progeny should know that Bob was among the salt of the earth. I first knew him as an Eclectic pledge in the fall of 1953 and was delighted to correspond with him as class secretary in recent years. Every time I saw Bob, he was calm, thoughtful, and helpful. He was one of my favorite Eclectics, and his loss is deeply felt.

“I also want to salute my dear friend and classmate Bill Shepard on his 90th birthday earlier this month [June]. My daughter, Ilana ’91, drove Mimi and me to celebrate with his wife, Lois, daughters Stephanie and Robin, and sundry friends at their lovely home on the Eastern Shore. Bill was a fellow French major and distinguished his Wesleyan degree with a notable career in diplomacy that included a tour as U.S. consul general in Bordeaux. It was great fun to reminisce with Bill about the glory days of Wesleyan in the Butterfield years. He recently showed his gratitude to Wesleyan by gifting a significant collection of French novels to the Olin Library. Thank you, Bill.” 

A link to Bob’s obituary can be found online at classnotes.blogs.wesleyan.edu.

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