Tag: 1958

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 golf equipment advice I gave him, but he gave up golf for billiards. He plays with his grandson, who is a senior at Sacramento State.  

            Tom Mosher and his family of 15 spent two weeks in southern Germany and on the Rhine. He labeled it the best trip ever.

            Dan Woodhead is OK, nothing exciting going on. Dan, that is a plus.

            I have received emails from Bob Hayes, who is in Massachusetts and going it alone after losing his beloved Poog.

            Ezra Amsterdam is still in harness in Davis, California. He is not full time, but I am sure his colleagues think he is.

            Art Geltzer went to our reunion last June. He stayed in Portland. He observed that the school had changed little in the last 10 years.

            I had a phone conversation with Bob Fisher—doing OK, gave up skiing and tennis.

            I have frequent phone calls with Dick Goldman; he still plays golf and tennis and does some legal work. Kay and I plan to have lunch with Dick and his lady friend in February in Weston, Florida.

            I have kept in contact with Rick and Brenda Pank. Rick is doing well after his stroke. He speaks well and walks well.

             I still play some golf, casually and not competitively. But I play online bridge on Mondays with Barbara Levine, Art Levine’s wife. Art and Barbara are now on a two-week family cruise. I play casual bridge with Ted Wieseman on Thursdays. Ted has used oxygen and hopes to put it in the past. He also visits Walt Karney, who is in a nursing home.

Burr Edwards commented again on the legacy issue. Harvard will give preference to a legacy if two candidates are equally promising. He believes that is fair (and I agree).

            My next request will simply ask to respond to show you can.

Happy New Year!

Cliff

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

The responses were few, maybe good news. Bob Blubaugh had no news, at our age very welcome. Dan Woodhead had nothing to report, just awaiting the start of the MLB season.

Bob Furber expects to be on campus this May. He is planning on our reunion and a retirement party for Bill Herbst, the John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy. He hopes Kate Lynch will alert him of the earliest opportunity to get a dorm room. After the reunion he plans to visit his father’s relatives in Maine.

Burr Edwards hopes to spend some time in NYC this summer as a teaching assistant for a financial-training institution (for which ageism does not seem to work).

Bart Bolton will be in Sarasota in April.

Neil Henry is still in Richmond. His pacemaker is working well and he made it to 85. He hopes to spend three weeks in Ocracoke this September. His daughter Betsy has a college-bound son and maybe Wesleyan.

It has been about a year since Bill Barnes lost his wife and he is adjusting to the changes. He stays active with the Rotary Club and his music. He has been a member of the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra for 35 years, playing the viola. His biggest thrill was playing at Carnegie Hall a few years ago. “Breathtaking to realize I was on the same stage as the world’s greatest musicians.”

Recently Kay and I drove to the East Coast and had lunch with Dick Goldman and a lady friend. We dined at the Sawgrass complex. Dick is wintering at Key Biscayne. Dick says that he is in contact with John Watson regularly.

Rick Pank is recovering from a stroke. I spoke to Brenda recently and Rick enjoys cards from well-wishers. Send to 33 Burchard Lane, Rowayton, CT 06853.

Tony Codding was expecting a half foot of wet snow in March. He did spend a week in Florida earlier in the winter. And he is finishing his fifth and last term as condo association president.

Regards,

Cliff