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Welcome to our Class of 1961 web site!  If you are a classmate, please set up your username & password to access private pages and features if you haven't already done so. Click First-time sign up in orange Login box at right and follow the directions.  [NOTE: do not use suffix such as Jr. or III when entering your surname.]

 

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What's New? Note from Emmerson. Zirin moderates. November PAW column.Ben fishes. Brakeley & Odden. Roberts & Schaefer. Annual Treasurer's Report.  Extraordinary Omenn gift.  Note from Schwartz.   Blair honored.  Mac's watercolors. Sykes visits. Honorary Captain Blair. Newens/Graber meet. Remember Scotty Marsh?  Wisner's daughter climbs. Old Russia Hands Panel Discussion.


Deaths posted within the last 6 months (click any name for obit): Steve Heller. Bob Haines. Paul Rubincam. Woody Hawks. Bob Epsen. Ted Ramsey. George Landow. Cookie Krongard. Gordon Goodfellow. Steve Lerman. Andy Walker. Bob Schweizer. Thomas Koehler. Dick Webster. Mason Ferry. Mahlon Jones. Jim Gieske.

 

Deaths reported but awaiting details: Dick Niner (7/10/23). John MacMurray (9/4/23). Jim Gieske.

 

    CLASS DUES

 We are now in fiscal year '23-'24 and we again have a 61% goal. Please pay your dues and help us reach our goal. As of 9/10/23, 23 classmates/associates, or 5.1%, have paid their dues.

 

For the previous fiscal year ('22-'23), 209 classmates and associates (46%) paid dues.

 

Please log in and click here to see your personal payments history, pay your dues, and optionally donate to the scholarship fund and Foundation. (Note: login is optional; but if you do, you can see your payments history and the system will auto-fill your information for you.) Dues payments and donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.

 

Virtual Yearbook

In the on-line "Virtual Yearbook" you can read about classmates, look at their photos (many were not in the print edition and most are in color). You can edit your profile, your essay, and add/delete photos as you see fit.  While logged on, click this link and use the navigation buttons on the top and right.

 

Directory Link (on left, second from bottom while logged on)

It has three selections: Classmates (you can look up details on anyone) My Profile (update your own details), Deceased (lists all those we've lost, including links to their memorials).                

               

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

  • Memorial Celebration of Life for Cookie Krongard: September 30 (date of the alumni lacrosse game) at Baker Rink. Details TBA.

RECENT EVENTS

 

  • September 3, 2023, 4:00 PM - Pre-rade welcomes the Class of 2027
    The Class of 2027 will participate in its Pre-rade in front of Nassau Hall..Alumni and guests are invited to attend. Class jackets or orange and black attire are encouraged. Learn more about the Pre-rade

 

  • 62nd Reunion: May 26-28, 2023. Class Dinner Friday night at Nassau Club. '62 will join us. Class meeting at 5:30pm, cocktail hour 6pm, dinner approx 7pm.

         Who was there: Tony Atkiss, Len Berton, Jim & Susan Blair, Lee Blyler & daughter Allison '88, Ellen Boer, George Brakeley, Jerry Ford '54 h61, Jon & Patty Hlafter, Mike & Gerri Horn, Justin & Suzanne Kimball, Joe & Maureen McGinity, Peter & Jean Pettibone, Bob & Mary Pickens, Art Smith, Will Somers, Jim & Martha Wickenden, Carol Wojciechowicz.

  • Alumni Day: Feb. 25, 2023. Details, click here.

  • May 19-22, 2022: 61st Reunion. Class Dinner Friday night at Nassau Club

     

    Who's Came? Somers, McGinity, Havens, Carol Wojciechowicz, Boer, Adams, Brakeley, Pickens, Prather, Shattuck, Hlafter, Newlin, Berton , Wickenden, Kimball, Blyler, Blair.

     

  • April 4-6, 2022: Class Gathering in D.C. Area.
  • Committee: Gene Lawson, Bob Fuller, Art Smith, Ev & Joe Prather, Peter & Ellen Boer, Gil Omenn, Len Berton, George Brakeley and Peter Pettibone. Click here for the details.
 
  • February 19, 2022: Alumni Day

  • Virtual 60th Reunion. May 20 - 23, 2021. Click here to go to Schedule page.

                       Who's "coming"
J. AdamsEmmersonIsemanNewensStith
AdelmanEpsenJacksonOestreichStrasberger
AlexanderB.EwingP.Johnson's widow & daughterPatrickSupplee
AndrewsFalkR.JohnsonPattonSykes
D.ArmstrongFechnerKestlerPettiboneTilton
AtkissW.FinchKimballPickensTobriner
BabcockFinksKrongardPooleD.Todd
BertonFitzgeraldKuchelPratherJ.Todd
BettsForneyLackeyPritchardTomlinson
BjorkholmFrisbieLancefieldQuiltyTowler
BlairGeorgescuLaneRamsayTremaine
BlylerGoldenLarkinRandallUman
BoerGoldmanG.LewisReaUnger
BoleGoodenoughLeiferReederVanderwicken
BrakeleyGordonLeisringRentschlervon Rohr
BrandonGottenLomasReuschWadsworth
BrothersGraberLucchesiRhoadesWagner
BrunerGrahamMackRippinWalker
N.BrownGreenMandellP.RobertsWall
J.BurnhamGreenbergManningW.B.Rose C.Watson
BurtonGreerMatthewsRosenbergR.Webster
P.ChapmanHagstromMcCobbRoughWeisband
CheesemanHammondMcGinityRukeyserWells
J.ClarkHansonMcIndoeSansoneWhitaker
ColeR.HarrisonMcLaughlinScasserraB.White
CooperHavensMcMichaelSchwartzM.Whitehead
CrawfordHegnerMcReynoldsSeelyWhitman
DanaHedgrenMcWhinnieSelwoodWickenden
DavidsonHilgendorffMennaShattuckJoan.Wilk
J.DiazHlafterMessinaShipmanWilliamson
DienerHornMilesA.SmithWisner
DonnellyHornerMillsapsW.SmithCarol.Wojcie
DuffordHudnutW.MorrisSomersWollmershauser
EarleHueyJ.MygattSonnenbergZirin
EdmundsHylandT.MygattStilesZschau
Edwards
176 classmates/associates
  • A Woodrow Wilson virtual panel discussion was held on September 8, 2020 on Zoom. To view the meeting "tape", click this link https://youtu.be/Ne4n4tXRg2c. Please do not share this link with anyone outside our class.

  • Saturday February 22, 2020- Alumni Day. Click here to go to the University web page.

  • Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 1pm: Caring Committee conference call on "Loneliness". Click here for article on the subject. Chair: Bob Pickens

  • Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 3pm: Class Gathering at Yankee Stadium for Dartmouth football game.


         Click here for earlier events.

Our Class News page contains short items which appear from newest to oldest.  Some items appear on the Class Acts if they are longer.  We welcome your submissions but suggest you read our Guidelines.  You can see the roster of Class Officers (including their smiling faces).  Also, please go to the President's Page, and the Treasurer's Page.  Viewing and updating personal data requires classmates to login with their own i.d. and password.

Memorials are on the PAW website.  Past Class Notes are archived on PAW as well.

If you are a member or widow of the class, this is your site.  This medium serves as a valuable resource for news of the class.  Please tell other classmates!  Whether you have news about yourself or others, want to post a notice of a class event, or have other information of interest, please send it here.  Items will also be passed on to our class secretary, George Brakeley, for possible use in PAW.


On this site: You may click on links, which are in orange and underlined, to be transported to the page described (and you can use the "Back" button of your web browser to return), or to send e-mail to the person identified.  You may also click on the links at the left of all pages.  Clicking on a "thumbnail" picture with an orange border will display a larger and clearer image.

Click here for earlier past events.  Click here for the class song.



 

 

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