CLASS OF 1958 | 2023 | FALL ISSUE
Gentleman, I was not swamped with replies.
Dan Woodhead’s three grandchildren are all aiming to make the USA Water Polo 2024 Olympic team for the Paris games. Grandsons Dylan and Quinn both graduated from Stanford and helped Stanford win the Men’s NCAA Water Polo Championship in 2019. They are now playing professional water polo in Europe. Granddaughter Ella contributed the game-clinching goal in Stanford’s NCAA championship win against USC this past May. She will step away from Stanford this fall to train full time in Seal Beach, California, with the USA Women’s Olympic Water Polo Team.
Tom Mosher and his family, 15 strong, just completed a two-week trip in southern Germany, Switzerland, and France. They were on the Rhine for eight days and report that the weather, the surroundings, and the people could not have been nicer.
Good to hear from Bart Bolton who aims to visit Florida next March.
Kay and Bob Terkhorn decided to explore the U.S. after some bad European airline experiences last year. They visited Napa and Sonoma in the wine country and followed that with a cruise on the Snake and Columbia Rivers following the Lewis and Clark route. He and Kay are doing well and do not intend to slow down soon.
Joanna and Bill Fryer keep busy with family activities, including great-grandchildren. Bill is retired but works part time as a Lutheran pastor.
Art Geltzer did attend our reunion in person along with one other classmate. He is traveling less, but still enjoys retirement. He winters in Providence, volunteering for the medical school where he spent his career; and summers in an old whaler captain’s house that he inherited from his grandmother.
A few months back Rick Pank suffered a stroke. I have followed his recovery via phone calls to his wife, Brenda. He is much better and anticipating a full recovery. He would enjoy hearing from classmates. Phone: (203) 853–0375; email: wfpank@aol.com.
Recently I had a long phone call with Dick Goldman. He is in good health and continues both tennis and golf. And he dabbles in the legal profession. Dick was a good friend of Don Hill who passed away early in the year. Dick contacted Don’s daughter, Martha Hill-Enright, who asked me to include the following in our class notes:
“We are saddened to learn of the passing of Don Hill, Class of ’58. Don grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. He went to Wesleyan with his good friend, John Hobbs. In high school he met his wife, Ann. They were happily married for more than 60 years. He played on the tennis team at Wesleyan for three years. Don had a distinguished career in public service and in education in public high schools and Stanford University. He had three children and three grandchildren. There was a lovely memorial service celebrating Don’s life in Cloverdale, California, on June 18.”
Heard from Burr Edwards who is keeping a low profile in Lectoure (southwest France) due to the heat. Burr is the son of Wilbur N. Edwards ’16 and the grandson of Nelson Edwards 1879. Suffice it to say he has some concerns about the new “no bump” policy for legacies.
Tony Codding wrote that he thoroughly enjoyed our Zoom reunion with our classmates, “who seem to be holding their own at this stage in life. I reconnected recently with my Eclectic fraternity brother and former roommate, Bob Smith ’57, who is the Class of ’57 scribe.”
Kay and I keep busy; visited my sister in Alabama in May, saw my grandson graduate from University of Toronto in June, and spent six days on Long Island in July.
Keep moving!
Cliff