'66 - The Overall Class

Presidents' Letter

Alumni Day - Saturday, February 25, 2012

It was a great weekend for the great overall class of '66; see the July 6 Class Notes for more.

 

Before getting to the numerous 45th photos, we have class photos of all major reunions back to the 15th, thanks to Paul Corcoran who scanned them. Does anyone have class photos from the 10th or 5th?

 

 

 

45th Reunion Class Photo

40th Reunion Class Photo

35th Reunion Class Photo

30th Reunion Class Photo

25th Reunion Class Photo

 

20th Reunion Class Photo

 

15th Reunion Class Photo

Here's the logo for the 10th. If you have a class photo, please send it to Jim Parmentier, the class secretary



PHOTOS FROM THE 45th

Henry Von Kohorn and Grandson, Emerson Rising

 

Bill Martin and Ralph Davies

Bob and Judy Rawson

Bruce Leslie and Tessa Harding

Dave Ames, Ernie Hutton and Peter Wilson

Honorary Classmate Number 1

Howie and Essia Fredman, and Ted Joyce

Jay Lagemann and friend

Jim and Janet Timbie

John and Regina Scully with Bob Nahas and Dan Goldenson

John Edwards with John Edwards III

John Nagorniak and Bud Davella

Kit Mill and Ron Landeck

Mike Tice with Lonnie, Christopher and Sarah

Nancy Haston and Francis Kwok

Our New Logo

Owen Mathieu and Nancy Ames

Bill Lutz and friend

The '66 Memorial Board

The only guy with a tie in the whole place

 

 

 

Tiny Morgan

Tom and Liz Armstrong

Tom Scott and Dave Stewart

You aint gonna carry that in my P-rade

You ain't gonna carry that in my P-rade

 

PROCEEDINGS AT THE PRESIDENT'S MANSION (AKA PLOHN HALL) YALE WEEKEND, NOVEMBER 2011.

 

To be added soon!

 

 

 

Alumni Day and Class Dinner - Saturday, February 26, 2011

See the April 6 class notes for Class Dinner news and more on the Class of 1966 stone. Here is Griff Witte's speech.

Memories from the Archives

 

Comments, more memories, more photos? Please send them to Class Secretary Jim Parmentier at jparmen@aol.com.

 

Here is a shot taken sometime in January, 1966, on one of Bert Kerstetter and Kit Mill's near-daily visits to Paul Savidge in the Princeton Hospital.

The second is a shot of Cork'screw, a club that met at the Nass on Thursday evenings in the Spring of 1966. It took its name from its founder, Paul (Cork) Corcoran, who is alive and well and living in Austtralia.  Most of these guys are alive also...and all but but three (maybe 4 ...one remains unidentified) are '66'ers. The list below correlates names and numbers.

1. Jeff Shafer
2. Jolyon Sprowles
3. Tony Carroll
4. Larry Crowell
5. Bruce Leslie
6. Mike Barrett
7. George Humphrey
8. Charles Peischl
9. Ken Thompson
10. Phil Nicholson
11. Bill Hall
12. Bill Engdahl
13. David Stitzer
14. Paul Hudak
15. John Lavieri '67
16. Tom Snell
17. John Canning (?)
18. Steve Chertok
19. Jim Bartholomew
20. Paul "Cork" Corcoran
21. Eric Sellix
22. Larry Horn
23. Stu Ball
24. Unidentified ('67?)
25. John Lupton
26. Larry Scott
27. Stan Kops '67
28. Bob Middleton
29. Hank Cygan
30. John Lamb
31. Jim Russell
32. Fred Schonenberg
33. Fred Forster
34. Ralph Davies

See Francis Kwok's photos below.

 

Over the weekend of April 30 to May 3 twenty of our classmates, plus their wives/significant others, joined ten families of pre-Old Guard'ers from '65 for a memorable Mini-Reunion at Gettysburg, near Hershey, PA.  On hand from our class, were TEARRY BEATTY, BUD D'AVELLA, DENNIS DAVIS, TERRY EAKIN, CARL EASTWICK, ROGER EVANS, DOUG HANSMANN, LARRY HORN, DAVE KINARD, BOB KOPF, KEN KREIDMANN, FRANCIS KWOK, KIT MILL, TINY MORGAN, BOB NAHAS, CHARLIE PLOHN, JOHN SLAYBAUGH, DAVE STITZER, TURK THACHER and RICH THOMAS.  From '65 were DanBlanchard, Karl Ege, Richard Ober, John O'Brien, Jim Pearce, Lynn Sutcliffe, John Vogel, Van Zandt Williams, Dick Woodbridge, and Sanford Zeller.

 

The event was organized, from our side, by Kit Mill and Turk Thacher, and from '65 by Dave Woodbridge and John O'Brien.  Most people arrived at Hershey, PA, on Thursday and stayed at the beautiful Hotel Hershey.  Thursday evening, there was a casual buffet dinner at the Hotel, where people spent time catching-up on each other's lives.  Most of Friday was spent visiting the Milton Hershey School, hosted by then-President, John O'Brien.  The day opened with a performance by the Middle School Jazz Band, who sounded like professionals who had been playing together for many years. We also visited the homes in which about a dozen students live, each with a married couple who serve as surrogate parents.  The students do their own laundry and perform chores such as cleaning the house, and working in the barns and fields owned and operated by the school community.

 

During lunch on Friday at the Homestead (Mr. Hershey's birthplace) each table was joined by a student or two so that classmates could learn more about the personal situations that brought the students to the MiltonHersheySchool and what a life-changing event it has been for them.  MiltonHersheySchool is a private residential school for children pre-kindergarten through 12th grade who come from families of low income, limited resources, or social need.  The School was founded in 1909 by chocolate magnate Milton S. Hershey and his wife, Catherine.  Mr. Hershey gave his entire fortune to fund the School in perpetuity.   It offers a community where children receive a high quality education, access to excellent athletic, recreational, and arts facilities, room and board in a nurturing, family-like student home, clothing, medical and dental care, and assistance with continuing education after graduation - all at no cost to the children's families. 

 

Johnny O'Brien was one of those students.   John's grandmother enrolled him and his older brother, Frankie, into the HersheySchool after their father murdered their mother. John was not yet four years old.  He graduated from Hershey in 1961, got a scholarship to Princeton, and went on to found Renaissance Leadership, a management consulting company specializing in change leadership and executive coaching.  John was an Education Policy Fellow at the National Institute of Education and an Associate Director of Admissions at Princeton, is currently on Princeton's Board of Trustees.  John was named president of the MiltonHersheySchool in July 2003 and, during his tenure, it grew to serve 1,800 students, a 50 percent increase in the number of children enrolled at the School.  John oversaw the renovation of the School's flagship building into a new hall for middle school students; instituted a Transitional Living program aimed at helping seniors learn independent life skills before leaving the School; and created SpringboardAcademy to help new middle school students adjust to the highly structured life at MHS.  John continued the mission of the school, while building a culture of accountability and positive spirit, until his retirement in May of this year (2009).

 

On Friday afternoon some people went on sightseeing tours of the Hershey Factory, Chocolate World, or HersheyGardens, and some played golf at one of the three golf courses owned by the School.  Later that evening they moved on to cocktails and dinner at The Hershey Story, a museum dedicated to describing the work of this monumental individual, Milton S. Hershey.

 

On Saturday morning the group traveled by bus to the Gettysburg battlefield site.  During the ride, Terry Beatty and Rich Thomas gave the group primers on both the Civil War, in general, and specifically on the Battle of Gettysburg.  Both of these fellows spoke extemporaneously and at length, and proved to be even more knowledgeable than the two outstanding guides who later took our group through the battlefield.

 

Cocktails and dinner Saturday evening were at the Grand Pavilion of the beautiful Hershey Country Club, where a large screen was set up so we could watch the Kentucky Derby. After dinner there were a few brief talks, both serious and humorous, and some prizes were awarded.  Sunday there was more golf, etc.  Hershey is 13 miles due East of Harrisburg, and about an hour away from the Gettysburg battle site.  For anyone reading this who didn't make the trip but wants to learn more about the locations described here, Terry Beatty recommends reading "The Emperors of Chocolate", by Ms. Joel Glenn Brenner.  Turk recommends "Hershey" by Michael D'Antonio.  Carl Eastwick, being more inclined to history than sweets, provided a link to an article from the Baltimore Sun on the Restoration of Gettysburg.



Carl Eastwick, Bob Nahas, Richie Thomas, Buddy Maddox '65, Bud D'Avella, Nancy Haston, Terry Beatty, John Slaybaugh

Carol Thacher



Carol Thacher, Elaine D'Avella


Dave Stitzer, Carl Eastwick, Betty Lou Morgan


Doug and Nancy Hansmann, Bob Nahas


Doug and Nancy Hansmann, Charles Plohn, John O'Brien '65


Jackie Horn and Dave Stitzer


John O'Brien '65 and friend


John O'Brien '65


Karl and Carol Ege '65, Carl Eastwick, Carol Thacher


Nancy Haston, Francis Kwok (who gets the photo credit for all of these shots!)


Nancy Haston, Roger and Sandy Evans


Roger and Sandy Evans, Nancy Haston, Lynn Sutcliffe '65 and Jim Anderson '65


Roger Evans, Nancy Haston, Sandy Evans


Susan Mill, Turk Thacher


Tiny and Betty Lou Morgan


Tiny Morgan


Tiny, Karl Ege '65, Buddy Maddox '65


Turk Thacher, Doug and Nancy Hansmann, Dave Kinard


Virg Nahas, Susan Mill

                  

                Robert F. Goheen '40, h'66 (1919-2008)

To an ultimate friend and honorary member of the class of 1966, we give a locomotive---

    Hip--Hip...Rah, Rah,
    Rah, Tiger Tiger Tiger, Siss, Siss, Siss, Boom, Boom, Boom, BAhhh.
    Goheen! Goheen! Goheen!"

Nassau Herald Photos

 

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