www.andover.edu/intouch While still in law school, Dolan married piano major Carole Ann Winke, and they now have three children and 10 grandchildren. He and his wife enjoy canoeing, biking, and cross-country skiing. “All old-timers’ sports are our favorites,” he says. A fuller version of John’s CV is at www.Law.Wayne. edu/profile/john.dolan/. John Rockwell is credited with four books, and he’s currently editing a coffee-table book for Times Books about the ’60s, part of a series of “decade” books being drawn from articles in the New York Times. “I help pick the topics and articles and will write a general introduction and smaller intros for the various sections (international news, N.Y. sports, science, arts, etc.). I’ve also been brooding for years about a big book on Mozart’s Magic Flute; but whether I get that one off the ground, we shall see.” Your secretary has written in the past about Geoff Movius’s recently published book of poetry, Transit (2012). It is currently available on Amazon and from Barnes & Noble. Years ago, Geoff also wrote The Second H Book of Harvard Athletics, 1923–1963, a 940-page tome. Geoff said he took more than a year off from his postgraduate studies to complete that book. Speaking of the histories of schools’ athletics, there are two books on Andover’s athletics: one by Ted Harrison, covering the period from 1778 to 1978, and another, older one by Frank Quinby covering the period from 1860 to 1920. There was a loose map in my copy of the Quinby book, and it described a golf course within the sanctuary. The golf team disbanded for a brief period starting in 1905, so I guess the golf course reverted back into the wilderness we know today. Mal Salter has written three books: one on Enron; one on the auto industry; and one on corporate acquisitions, titled Diversification through Acquisition (1979). That one sparked a negative reaction and a querulous phone call from Gulf+Western. Mal’s response was, “Hey, I’m on your side!” Mal has virtually recovered from shoulder surgery (rotator cuff repair and ligament reattachment), the result of 60 years of squash abuse exacerbated by a back-country ski spill in Utah. I say “virtually” because he complains his golf handicap is not back to where it was—but whose is? Mal is sketching out another book on the subject of institutional corruption, very topical after the events surrounding the Great Recession and the behavior of our large financial institutions. I’m sure that we have not recognized all the publishing contributions of other classmates. I wrote earlier about Tony Rhinelander’s book, Prince Michael Vorontsov, Viceroy to the Tsar. Let me know if we missed others, and I will give credit in future columns.
1959 55th REUNION June 13–15, 2014
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Nathalie Taft Andrews 2407 Ransdell Ave. Louisville KY 40204 502-459-5715 dulcie@iglou.com
Reminder! Starting with this issue, class notes will be included in the digital version of the magazine on the website. As before, the digital edition is available in Flipbook format or as a PDF download. We hope this makes it easier and more convenient to keep up with your classmates!
PHILLIPS David Othmer 4220 Spruce St. Philadelphia PA 19104 215-387-7824 davidothmer@aol.com
First order of business is, of course, our 55th Reunion, June 13–15, 2014. Your trusty committee—listed in ascending-age order—is Susie Stedman ’59, John Doherty, Kitty Sides Flather ’59, Artie Rogers, and myself. First, of course, we want you to come to the reunion, and second, we want your thoughts on what activities we should have there. Call or write any of us. But above all, be there! Many of us had our 50th college reunions this summer, and Sven Hsia reports that 27 of us went to the Yale reunion—which was led by Hank Higdon, Charlie Sawyer, Artie Rogers, Peter Foote, and Peter Pochna—and included Jerry Bremer, Bill Nordhaus, and Sven on panels and a film starring, among others, Lea Pendleton, Ed Shapiro, George Nilson, Chuck Cacos, Bill Bell, and Geoff Martin. Both Bill Bell and Sven mentioned what a thrill it was to see Juan RodriguezDiaz there—with the same girl he had been with in 1959! And Bill also mentioned that he “had a great visit at our home from Pepper Stuessy and his traveling partner, Gizelle, who came to Maine for some wildlife photography en route to the Yale reunion. Had a chance to see Pepper immerse himself in his new pastime when we spent a late afternoon in the wildlife refuge behind our house.” Ralph Kimball, who spent much of the summer at his cottage on Boothbay Harbor in Maine, says, “I normally skate with the Rusty Blades in Worcester, Mass., during the winter, but I was able to find a seniors [hockey] team playing during the summer in nearby Falmouth, Maine.” You gotta love hockey! He also had lunch this summer with John Doherty and Tom Stirling, all part of a Vietnam vets group that meets irregularly in Andover. John Butler writes, “In August, Lea Pendleton showed up in our Maine harbor. We had a wonderful visit aboard his boat over iced tea. (It was morning.) Discussed the usual topics: joys and heartbreaks, friends and classmates, our fathers’ friendship, our kids, women. Also, issues that bore most people to tears but absolutely fascinate
boaters: horsepower, battery life with and without refrigeration, dinghies and outboard motors, navigation instruments, cruising speeds, and upper decks.” Lea has been doing a lot of cruising in Maine, some with a new friend, June, who lives in St. Louis. Dave Harris, newly moved to the Tampa area, declares, “I’m loving Florida!” and is delighted that Jim Hayman’s thriller number three, Darkness First, is now out and available—hard, soft, and electronic. John Charlton has been reading “Trollope, G.B. Shaw theatre reviews from the 1890s, many John Buchans, P.G. Wodehouse, lots of African stuff for work, especially Nigeria and Congo, and Robert Musil short stories.” He’s also been musing on “paths not taken”—and wondering what classmates’ missed or unchosen paths have been. In early 2013, Dexter Koehl writes, “[I] volunteered on a USAID-funded project developing a strategic tourism promotion plan for the eastern part of the island of Sri Lanka, devastated by a generation of conflict. They’re impressive, gutsy people, and their land is incredible. Feel like I’m in a late 1970s time warp.” Bill Anderson reported the sad news that he and wife Lanny lost their daughter Maysie on July 3. There were memorial services in Wilmington, N.C., and on Deer Isle, Maine. Bill, we all can only imagine how hard it must be on you both, and our thoughts are with you. Also, we just learned that Greg Gates died of cancer in November 2012. He graduated from Dartmouth (both the college and the medical school), served in the Army, and spent 25 years working as a Andover | Winter 2014
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