Recent Classmate Sightings

From October, 2018 back to 2014, when the Sightings page started.

October 27, 2018. The 66 Boston Lunch Group meets monthly, more or less, on the third Thursday of each month. If you're in town, please join us (Contact Ned Groth [nedgroth@cs.com] or John Hart [jmhart62@gmail.com] for details). The September 13 kickoff had (L-R around the table in Photo 1) Owen Mathieu, David Williams, Willy Osborn, Rick Bowers (back from the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute), Ned Groth, John Hart, and Jim Parmentier. Jay Lagemann and his reunion tigers joined the Oct 18 group with William Ducas, Mike Tooke, Groth, Hart, Lee, Osborn, and Williams. Jay had taken the tigers down to NJ to have them scanned and parked behind the restaurant on the way home. Other photos show the trip on the Marttha's Vineyard ferry. Two days later, Groth, Hart, and Lee reconvened for the Princeton-Harvard game (29-21 victory) and pre-game tailgate (photo 6 in the slide show) hosted by Dave and Hallie Lee. See Ned's Facebook news feed for photos and more.

October 17, 2018. Bill Brauer met up with Jon Holman at the Market Bar in SF as Jon continues to flush out classmates far and wide. The class birthday card often does the trick. Bill reports that he has never been to Reunions, played semi-pro basketball in Europe soon after law school, he's a retired attorney, and his main avocation is five days a week with his grandson Teo. Bill also volunteers at a crisis hotline, and he plans to start coming to our '66 Bay Area events. He is married with two daughters.

October 15, 2018. Lanny Jones was staying at the Cambridge, MA Charles Hotel (Harvard's attempt at a Nassau Inn equivalent) and snapped this photo of artwork in the room. Lanny spotted Mike Spence among the Nobel Prize winning economists that the Econ 101 students will be expected to master.  This is Harvard, so one economist's name is misspelled.

October 5, 2018. On October 4, 2018, 21 '66 classmates met for lunch at Delancey Street Restaurant in San Francisco.  This was the third San Francisco '66 event in the past 12 months.  Tom Hanks '66, a career U.S. Geological Survey scientist, was convinced to speak to the group about earthquakes and the logic for earthquake insurance, which he did with great skill.  His Landon classmate and Princeton roommate Frank Nuessle completely surprised Tom and flew out to San Francisco from Philadelphia just for the event, introducing Tom with much humor and a very funny high school poster.  Also visiting from the east coast were Jim Parmentier and Ken Krosin.  The other highlight of the gathering was welcoming Peter Waring, who by coming to the lunch attended his first '66 and Princeton event since graduation.  Kudos to Tim Smith for coming up with the idea of having a class speaker. Here is the list of 21 attendees:

Tom Adams, Warren Browne, Ord Elliott, Michael Goldstein, Tom Hanks , Jon Holman, Hank Hulter, Krist Jake, Ken Krosin, Mark Levine, David Marshak, Tom Norris, Frank Nuessle, Jim Parmentier, John Scully, Lemoine Skinner, Tim Smith, Tom Tureen, Peter Waring, Jeff Weiss, Joe Zizzi.

The slide show includes everyone but Jon Holman who was so absorbed by taking photographs that he forgot to include himself. No problem: Scroll down to the Oct 1 Stanford Business School reunion to catch Jon along with other 66ers.

October 1, 2018. Jon Holman writes that the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) class of 1968 had 18 Princetonians including ten '66 classmates: Steve Bakke, Lloyd Bentsen, Jon Dawson, Terry Eakin, Jon Holman, Rick Jones, the late George Largay, Bill Reed, John Scully, and George Weiksner (joint MBA/JD program).. This weekend we had our 50th GSB reunion, and four from '66 were there.  Photo attached.  If you can't tell who's who, read the name tags.  If your eyesight has failed, L-R Eakin, Holman, Dawson, Jones.

Searching the archives turned up images of the '66 football team composed of GSB and other classmates at Stanford. The photo on the left has '66ers line up in a single wing at GSB, 1967. Backfield: Weiksner, Frank Remley, Largay (deceased), Reed. Line: Dawson, Jones, Ken Boudwin, Eakin, Tom Curto '65, and Scully. On the right, Backfield: Weiksner, Largay, Reed, and Line: Dawson, Bentsen, Eakin, and Scully at Scully's Long Island home in 2004, reprising their 1967 lineup at Stanford GSB.

 

 

August 28, 2018. Jim Parmentier is sailing in Maine and meeting up with other classmates. "Susan Gabert and I hosted Eileen and Owen Mathieu overnight this past Saturday as they made their way from Marblehead to Penobscot Bay on their 30' Sabre NORBECK....and we fed Barbara and Glenn Goltz a drive-by dinner on Sunday evening as they headed to Camden to sail the schooner GRACE BAILEY for a week.  Susan is the lady to Glenn's right in the picture.  Lynn and David Williams introduced us last Fall, after our Chesapeake mini-reunion."

   

August 27, 2018. John Edie writes, "Hi gents - Frank MacMurray and I have been hiking in the Bugaboos (Canadian mountains) for the last six days. These are two shots at our last helicopter pickup today.  Gail took the picture. Amazing mountains!"

   

August 27, 2018. Rick Bowers adds a note along with a photo and a debatable personal opinion, "I had lunch with Larry Owen and Alice (Lyman) Miller a while ago.  Attached is a picture.  We're not nearly as good looking as MacMurray and Edie." Rick has been spending the last year at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute.

April 26-28, 2018.The Princeton Prize in Race Relations (our class service project) sponsored the April 26-28 symposium and dinner. Nine class members (Charles Plohn, Jim Merritt, Bud D'Avella, Turk Thacher, Henry Von Kohorn, Jim Parmentier, Bert Kerstetter, Owen Mathieu, Jon Dawson) and spouses were on hand. During the Symposium, which all Princeton Prize winners from across the country were invited to attend, we had a celebratory dinner in honor of the 15th anniversary of the Prize. The three pictures in the slide show were taken just prior to the dinner.

June 26, 2018. '66 in London

Stas Maliszewski is with Julia in London in London and has run run into one classmate and visited with another. Photo 1:  "We unexpectedly saw John Heminway at a 75th birthday bash for renowned sculptor and Julia's mentor Jonathan Kenworthy."  Photo 2: "We had lunch with Ham Shields after close to 50 years. Hes tickled to be involved. In talking with Ham it was clear he reads our stuff because it's fun and easy. I believe our classmates really love seeing other classmates"

May 16, 2018. '66 at the Giants Game

A big group from '66 went to the Giants game:

John Black, Neil Bloomfield, Warren Browne, Ord Elliott, Michael Goldstein, Tom Hanks, Bill Harrison, Steve Harwood, Jon Holman, Krist Jake, Sandy Larsen, Mark Levine, Mark Lurie, David Marshak, Tom Norris, Jeff Reichel, John Scully, Tim Smith, Walter Stockman, Tom Tureen, Jeff Weiss, Joe Zizzi

We also invited Mike Parish '65 as a guest; he's the long-time Class Secretary for '65 and just moved to the Bay Area.

All of this came about because John Scully, who is a minority owner of the Giants, also has access to a luxury suite.  He hosted us in the suite for the game, including lunch.  John also has four field-level seats right in the middle of the action, and the attendees rotated through those seats during the course of the game, which the Giants lost to the Reds 6-4.

October 24, 2017. The 1-2-3-4 Gang Reunites at Last.

Freshman 311 Lockhart roommates John L. Hardwick, Bernard J. D'Avella Jr,, Edward Groth III, and John H. Chidester IV, known to their friends as John (1), Bud (2), Ned (3), and Jack (4), reunited at Bud's in Essex Fells, NJ. As reported by Ned (also see Ned's speculation  after the photo slide show about higher forces at work):

"The recent photos represent the culmination of a 40-year effort by Bud & me to get the four of us who roomed together as freshmen--and posed proudly in June '66 at our first P-Rade (that shot is attached for archival reasons)--back together so we could take the "after" version of the photo. We had to wait for John to retire, since his calendar as a professor in Oregon kept interfering with our efforts to lure him to reunions. But now he's free at last, and he and Claudia traveled to NYC to visit the opera (they are big afficionados), and Bud hosted a gathering at his home in NJ. I came down form Boston, Jack and Audrey came up from Philly, and we all had a wonderful mini-reunion in Essex Fells.

The picture with spouses/significant others includes, females from left to right, Elaine D'Avella, Audrey Corson, and Claudia Hardwick; Sharon, my spouse, didn't make the trip with me."

"We speculated some on Saturday about how we all came to be roommates. I have always been of the opinion that the housing office had a plan, and probably a sense of humor. Bud went to Newark Academy, and I went to Darrow School. There was one guy from Newark Academy (Pete Papademetriou) and one guy from Darrow (Charlie Emerson) in the class of '65. Pete and Charlie were roommates, and in the fall of 1962 lived in 321 Lockhart Hall. I believe the fact that Bud and I were placed together in 311 Lockhart reflected a sense on the part of whoever assigned freshman housing that it could be useful for us to have friends/sophomore mentors in the same entry. Once Bud and I were placed together (Jr and III) some wag may have said "Oh boy, now we need a I and a IV to fill out this suite," though that's a bit more speculative than the mentor idea. Bottom line, though, I don't believe in coincidences."

"We had a '66 lunch today with 18 in attendance, location Delancey Street Restaurant in San Francisco.  ...  I'm attaching labeled pictures of most of us; I thought I had gotten everyone but I missed John Scully and Rick Jones somehow.  Mea culpa.  Tim Smith did the arranging with help from me.  Attendees were Tom Adams, John Black, Neil Bloomfield, Warren Browne (recent transplant from New York), Ord Elliott, Michael Goldstein, John Haeger, Steve Harwood, Jon Holman, Rick Jones, Mark Levine, Mark Lurie, David Marshak, John Scully, Lemoine Skinner, Tim Smith, Tom Tureen, and Jeff Weiss.  Rick Jones provided the wine from Jones Family Vineyards. The Jones Family Vineyard is in Calistoga, which has been evacuated, but their property is OK so far.  All it will take is a wind shift this weekend and things won't be good.  But Rick and his family are safe.

You might enjoy reading about the venue.  It is a long-established enterprise which serves as an employment transition for people just released from prison.  Tim and I thought that would send a good message, plus we liked supporting them."

Charles Plohn added a comment, "Great photo! And speaking of which...along with my son and one of my grandsons, on Friday I was on a tour of the Princeton football facilities. On one of the walls there was recognition of the Tigers selected as All-Ivy (see photo below). Congratulations to the two of you on your selections but please note that the Athletic Department would probably appreciate photos of each of you in uniform during your playing days. Is this a coincidence or are there other forces in play?" Classmates in the photo (difficult to read here, but see the Facebook photo) are Charlie Gogolack (1964, 1965), Stas' Maliszewski (1964, 1965), Paul Savidge (1964, 1965), Lawson Cashdollar (1965), Ron Landeck (1965), Dick Reinis (1965), and Dick Rogers (1965), 

JUNE, 2017. [Shamelessly borrowed from the October 5 Class Notes] Dave "Stitz” Stitzer writes happily that the new Hilton Head Island Princeton Luncheon Group meets regularly "to solve world problems and enjoy some old stories”.  Everyone in the area is invited.

L-R: Blair Lee ’67, Richard Welcome ’66, Peter Cooper ’67, Rich Thomas "66, 

    

Photo 1: Michael Moorin ’16, Peter Cary ’66, Joelle Deleveaux ’16, Ken Krosin ’66, Terry Beaty ’66, and Frank Langhammer ’66.

Photo 2:  Rebecca Neill ’16, Yende Grell ’16, Tony Fitch ’66, Andy Butz ’66, and Frank Ward ‘66

    

    

    

    

    

                  

                  

October 17, 2016. Washington, DC area '66ers met at the Metropolitan Club and were joined by Charlie Gogolak. Charlie and his brother Pete were in town at the invitation of the Hungarian Embassy, as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.

Charlie spoke to the group and recalled how his family moved to Ogdensburg in upstate New York upon arriving in the US to be near relatives. There was no soccer team, so kicking field goals and extra points was the alternative, and the rest is history. At Princeton, Bob Bedell's holding and Kit Mill's hiking were a big part of Charlie's success, and it helped to be on a winning team (Our last three years we were 24 - 3: 7 - 2, 9 - 0, then 8 - 1).

The first photo shows, L-R: Stas Maliszewski, Charlie Gogolak, John Slidell, and Terry Beaty

The next photo shows:

BACK Row: Kearney Shanahan, John Firestone, Jim Timbie, Terry Beaty, Ken Krosin, John Edie, Michael Barrett, Bill Bethune, Andy Butz, Frank Langhammer, Bill Torgerson, Frank Ward

SEATED: John Bowman, Peter Cary, Stas’ Maliszewski, Charlie Gogolak, John Slidell, Terry Eakin, Wallace Judd