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CLASS NOTES 1932 We learned just before Williams People went to press that John English passed away on March 6 in Yarmouth Port, Mass. He was the last living member of the class and the oldest known Williams alumnus. John was secretary of the Williams College Society of Alumni and director of alumni relations from 1960-75. Upon his retirement he took on the role of class secretary, serving for more than 36 years and receiving the Thurston Bowl (1982), among his many Williams awards. A detailed obituary will appear in the next issue. 1936 Richard U. Sherman Friendship Village Dublin 6000 Riverside Drive, Apt. A109 Dublin, OH 43017 1936secretary@williams.edu 1937 REUNION JUNE 7–10 Please submit notes to Williams People, P.O. Box 676, Williamstown, MA 01267 or alumni.review@williams.edu. 1938 George McKay 2833 Wind Pump Road Fort Wayne, IN 46804 1938secretary@williams.edu 1939 Roger Moore 39 Boland Road Sharon, CT 06069 Bruce Burnham celebrated his 95th birthday at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Mass. He is in relatively good health, cooking, housekeeping and building a grandfather clock on his own, but “living on the edge” as he guesses most ’39ers do. Harry Gottlieb sends wishes to all classmates for a happy and healthy 2012. 4 | Williams PeoPle | aPril 2012 Charles Cleaver sends news that he is still driving and playing some golf and that Patty is doing well despite some joint problems. From Maud Robertson comes the sad news that Thorndike Williams passed away Nov. 3. Marilyn and Alex Carroll are well. They celebrated the arrival of his grandson, Williams Class of 2011, as a teacher at “their” charter school. Gene Smith writes she has moved into a retirement home in St. Louis, near her daughter. She continues to enjoy traveling, playing bridge and following the pursuits of her grandchildren. Holly Silverthorne sends greetings to everyone; she continues to show the spirit of out great class. Doris and John Alstrom report the winter in Wilmington has been mild thus far. They planned to “bail out,” however, EPHCOMPLISHMENT In January William W. Steel ’37 received a certificate of appreciation for 20 years as a volunteer tutor at Mount Greylock Regional High School in Willliamstown, where he had been a teacher at Pine Cobble School. He and his wife Miriam live in Sweetwood retirement community in Williamstown. in March, for a house they rented in Hollywood, Fla., which is near family. Karl Mertz sends news they have had the most wonderful fall, with 47 days of sunshine. He is very pleased to see Forbes Magazine put Williams first on the liberal arts college list, ahead of Princeton. Welcome to all you ‘ninetyfivers.’ ’39 will not mind. 1940 Please submit notes to Williams People, P.O. Box 676, Williamstown, MA 01267 or alumni.review@williams.edu. 1941 Wayne Wilkins 240 South St. Williamstown, MA 01267 Pete Parish 6350 Sheffield Drive Hickory Corners, MI 49060 1941secretary@williams.edu Submitted by Wayne Wilkins: Pete Parish was in town to attend the Winter Study course that son Will ’75 was teaching, “Environmental Education, What, How and Why.” We were delighted to have Pete and Barbara stay with us. Pete has been nominated for the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame. I’d be happy to share with you the actual nomination statement. Here is an edited version: Preston S. Parish, military pilot and aviation executive, was born in Chicago. He was a U.S. Marine Corps machine gun company officer during the South Pacific campaigns including Guadalcanal and Peleliu, He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. Parish was accepted into Naval Flight Training and awarded Naval Aviator wings in 1984. He was vice chairman of the Upjohn Co. Board and helped establish the Upjohn Aviation Department and select its first aircraft. In 1972 he became a principal owner of KalAero, and in 1977 he co-founded the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, now the Air Zoo. He is authorized by the FAA to fly all types of highperformance piston aircraft and has 9,500 hours of pilot time. He has served as president of Warbirds of America, trustee of EAA Foundation, and treasurer and chairman of the National Business Aircraft Association. His election should be a shoein. The only other news is taken from a story on the Williams website written by Dick Quinn, the director of sports information. Pete Parish has done the editing. News of ’41 must be hard to come by when I have to write about myself! Here it is, in the third person as written. “On Fri., Dec. 16, two Eph football and baseball players met and talked about their third common bond—the Boston Bruins. Meeting for the first time were current standout wide receiver Darren Hartwell ’13 and Dr. Wayne Wilkins, who had seen Hartwell perform for the Ephs and is a dedicated Eph football fan and member of the Williams Sideline QB Club. The Bruins connection comes from Wilkins’ past association with the NHL team as their team doctor from 1969 until 1984. Hartwell covered the Bruins in January as part of the ESPNBoston staff for a Winter Study independent study project. Hartwell decided in the fall that it might be fun to broaden his sports writing résumé under the auspices of Joe McDonald of ESPN. Wilkins went on from Harvard Medical School to the Massachusetts
General Hospital, joining the Bruins as team doctor just when Bobby Orr brought the Stanley Cup back to Boston in 1970. There Wilk got to see and know one of the all-time greats in the NHL. ‘There are two things I remember about Bobby Orr that stood out,’ Wilk offered. ‘One, he was unbelievable as a player. He could shoot, pass, rag the puck and defend with anyone.’ His ability to rush the puck remains the best of all time. ‘Two, he was a fantastic person, a great humanitarian.’ Wilk recalled a call in his early days with the Bruins from a doctor at the Boston Children’s Hospital wondering if Wilk could get Orr to visit a 12-year-old who had had a leg amputated because of a bone sarcoma, thus ending his hockey career. Wilk replied that he would ask Orr. He agreed with one condition—no publicity. ‘I told Bobby I had one condition, too; that I go with him.’ In three hours at the ward Orr visited with every young patient, boy and girl, athlete and non-athlete, and all of the kids responded very positively to the Orr visit. One of the veteran nurses commented to Wilk: ‘I’ve only seen this kind of reception once before—when Ted Williams came to visit.’ Orr was only 21! When Orr scored the overtime goal to win the cup, Wilk was on the bench; son Wayne ’79 was sitting in his seat with Suki. It was his 13th birthday. “Wilk had enjoyed Hartwell’s breakout game as a sophomore against Trinity when he caught consecutive 80-yard touchdown passes right in front of Wilk. ‘It was amazing to see him run right by the defenders.’ He has had great respect for the wide receiver wearing number 1. Wilk told Darren to say hello to Don DelNegro, the Bruins head trainer and former director of sports medicine at Williams: ‘He’s my last connection to the Bruins.’ Wilk loved Darren’s final comment to Quinn: ‘I hope I’m as active and energetic as he is at 92.’” SENDNEWS! Y our class secretary is waiting to hear from you! Send news to your secretary at the address at the top of your class notes column. 1942 REUNION JUNE 7–10 Thurston Holt 4902 Willowood Way Norman, OK 73026 1942secretary@williams.edu “She is a woman, therefore may be wooed. She is a woman, therefore may be won.” —William Shakespeare, from his play Titus Andronicus. This was a favorite passage in a discussion I had with Ben Schneider Jr., who had taught English at St. Lawrence University. He believes Hamlet is partly autobiographical. Was Hamlet strong? Ben thinks only near the end when he returned to England with a “now I must act” determination. Did such luminaries as the Earl of Oxford, Ben Jonson or Francis Bacon really write the plays and sonnets rather the rustic bard of Stratford-Upon-Avon? Ben declared, “Shakespeare really wrote them—and I can prove it!” Ben is living at Goddard House, a retirement community in Brookline, Mass. “My wife Kaye died, my right knee is bone on bone, but this is a fine place to live, and the food is good,” he reported. Phil Hammerslaugh Jr. and I went back to our freshman days. Soon after the Class of 1942 arrived on campus, the college had a meeting for all freshmen. President James Phinney Baxter, Class of 1914, greeted us. Later, the dean, Hafdan Gregerson, was introduced. He said, “Williams has a bunch of rules and regulations, but you don’t even have to know what they are if you bear in mind just one thing: Be a gentleman.” He left after having spoken for only about a minute. I told Phil how much that impressed me and how valuable it has been through the years. We didn’t all follow it that fall. During a Halloween celebration, one of us got the fire hose of a hydrant going. When the dean arrived at the freshman quad to see what was going on, the guy with the hose aimed it at him and soaked him. Phil recalled the fall hurricane, a hurricane that didn’t have a name except “The Hurricane of 1938.” It knocked out the bridge over the Greenfield River from Williamstown to North Adams, so Fred Tompkins swam across it. n 1932–42 Phil went back to his boyhood. When he and Bruce Sundlun went to a camp one summer, they became co-winners of the Best Camper award. Phil kept the trophy for six months, then handed it off to Bruce for six months. Later, Phil emailed me, “David Brooks of The New York Times once ran a column about some people who stay in one job all their lives, and others who change almost every seven years like the itch. I’m one of the latter.” Is he ever! I’ll cover highlights of his whirligig career in the next issue. When I called Olivia Woodin, widow of Raye, she told me, “I’m holding my own.” She’s living in Burlington, N.C., at Asheville House, a retirement community, and writing a weekly column, “Ripples from the Pond,” for their newspaper, The Village Voice. Among her subjects are profiles of new residents and the grand outdoors, including a great blue heron that fishes in the pond, which has a fountain in the middle, and sunsets that turn the pond golden. Raye’s father, also Raye Woodin, was Williams 1898, then came our Raye, then Olivia and Raye’s daughter Eliza Lovell ’72. Who’s next? F. Thomas Ward said to me, “The presence of Dottie and Fred Rudolph in Williamstown is wonderful. Taking in women is the greatest thing Williams ever did.” I told Tom I share his enthusiasm for coeducation. Quite soon after Deerfield Academy, where I was class of ’37, finally went co-ed, I was thrilled to see the cover picture of Deerfield alumni magazine: a smiling young woman baseball catcher, crouched behind home plate, mitt out, ready for the next batter. Tom and his wife Cornelia live in Sedona, Ariz., and keep in shape hiking at Flagstaff. Joan Larned, an honoree, has an apartment in NYC and a farm in Kent, Conn. “I’m selling blueberries and giving away apples,” she says. I told her an old story about Jack Larned that I didn’t think she’d heard. He lived close by when we were growing up. When he was about 7 years old, at our house one day my father asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. “A bishop,” he answered. “I hear there’s good money in it.” (His father was a bishop.) aPril 2012 | Williams PeoPle | 5
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Page 7 and 8: Bill Brewer ’43 welcomed daughter
Page 9 and 10: is reviewed on the front page of th
Page 11 and 12: Parker Smith died in October after
Page 13 and 14: Emily. Fervent hopes were expressed
Page 15 and 16: years. Always positive, he claims t
Page 17 and 18: John Phillips reported he was sorry
Page 19 and 20: Roger Friedman ’55 (middle) recei
Page 21 and 22: 1956 classmates (from left) Walter
Page 23 and 24: hard to act against the economic in
Page 25 and 26: and all full scholarship. Matt said
Page 27 and 28: Festival.” And that’s just the
Page 29 and 30: Ephs gathered at the Mount Desert I
Page 31 and 32: Friend and sometime neighbor Wally
Page 33 and 34: eceived a wonderful award from my p
Page 35 and 36: six children, three of hers and thr
Page 37 and 38: “Through years of Williams’ eve
Page 39 and 40: 1965 classmates gathered at the Uni
Page 41 and 42: 1967 classmates Bill Taylor (left)
Page 43 and 44: Bankers Life Insurance and Casualty
Page 45 and 46: Skip Kotkins ’70 (right), chairma
Page 47 and 48: David Kubie ’71 (second from righ
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Page 51 and 52: in on the varying reminiscences rai
Page 53 and 54: an NSF grant for grad work on solar
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1976 classmates Sandy and Kristi Br
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in April to stop by and say hello.
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1979 classmates (from left) Lisa Ru
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1980 classmates Mary Ann Sondrini T
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owners of loose Holsteins on her ru
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Lohrer, Dan Katz ’79, Bill Spragu
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Dave Park ’83 (third from right)
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Marianne O’Connor wistfully wrote
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find myself at a loss for words. Ho
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Mark’ can’t help but stay conne
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In addition to drawing Debbie Bernh
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and Carrie Collins, and Brooks Foeh
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e doing his research (physics, and
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From left: Josh Kurzban ’91 and h
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was looking forward to skiing with
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Jake Russin ’94 (standing, left)
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From left: Brian Eng ’96, Elise B
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to have CTE, a degenerative brain d
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1998 Andrea Stanton 734 St. Paul St
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coaches the Dartmouth women’s alp
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to get back in touch with these fri
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Mount Sinai in NYC and is going int
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made a trip out to Portland, Ore.,
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Classmates Kam Shahid ’04 (right)
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lives down the street from her in N
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Rowena Ahsan ’07 (kneeling, cente
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grad school updates. Ryan Dunfee le
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Jenny Coronel ’10 (left) traveled
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“As for my regular life, I’m st
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From left: Robert Kim ’11, Michae
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Molly SharlaCh ’05 & keVin hoeSCh
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Jennifer hendi ’99 & MattheW troV
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terri o’brien ’02 & brad hoWell
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WEDDING ALBUM 1952 Raymond E. Georg
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OBITUARIES 1932 F. TAYLOR OSTRANDER
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elonged to the baseball team, Glee
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eceived numerous awards and honorar
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Joshua C. Teitelbaum ’93, and two
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AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY One of the cha
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