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News, information and entertainment for the Princeton Class of 1957. 


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Stu has given permission
 to share with you this
 lovely watercolor,
 his and Jeanette's
 best wishes for 2012





















 Marguerite (Reety) Beebe, widow of our classmate Tod, wrote this letter to the Princeton Alumni Weekly. ...  it is with her permission that I pass it along to you.  For anyone with the slightest doubt about the work the Fund is doing, Reety’s letter ought to put their minds at ease.  She says it as well as it can be said.  

QUOTE:

                I am writing to tell you of my deep appreciation to the 1957 Fund for classmates in need.  My wonderful husband, Tod Beebe ’57, died of cancer at the age of 35.  This left me with 2 children to raise and no experience of expertise.  After a shaky start, I pulled myself together and earned a nice living in real estate for our little family.  All went well until 2 years ago when my health and our son’s health deteriorated.  Tod’s super roommate, Tom Clarke, and his wife, Jean, immediately put me in touch with Shep Davis who is head of the 1957 Fund.  His very wise advice and monetary help saved our lives.  I am now on the mend and starting to work again.  Our son is bedridden but now taken care of financially by the state.

 

I am so blessed and so proud to have been a wife of the class of 1957.  Please contribute if you can as everyone knows time are hard.  Many, many thanks and especially for Shep’s friendship. Marguerite Beebe W '57


     

2012 is our 55th!

May 31 - June 3, 2012




Now is the time to signup for the reunion. First complete this application. Second, call the lodging of your choice from this list. Third, check this list of those registered to see that all is well. Total is now 121. It will be updated monthly. Also, go to the Directory and access your personal data. Check it for accuracy and completeness. Note that the essay you wrote for the 50th has been archived and a blank slate has been furnished for the 55th. Go to it and revise when the spirit moves you. A final call will be issued in the spring.                                                                                                         

 



Thought for the Month


                              
Horatius at the Bridge


At a time when our leaders seem only interested in their agendas and the public interest is sacrificed…it is well to consider heroes who stand up in times of peril. Lord Macauley wrote of such a man. These are, perhaps the most famous lines:





 

Then out spake brave Horatius,
          The Captain of the Gate:
     "To every man upon this earth
          Death cometh soon or late.
     And how can man die better
          Than facing fearful odds,
     For the ashes of his fathers,
          And the temples of his gods,


Publius Horatius Cocles
was an officer in the army of the ancient Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Lars Porsena, king of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium.

Dionysius gives us this, "Herminius and Lartius, their defensive arms being now rendered useless by the continual blows they received, began to retreat gradually." They called on Horatius to retreat but perceiving the tactical difficulty of allowing the enemy to cross he stood his ground, directing them to tell the consuls to tear up the bridge. The enemy view of him as a madman determined to commit suicide taking them with him protected him to some extent, as did his taking refuge behind the pile of slain. He returned enemy missiles. Finally wounded all over and having received a spear in the buttocks he heard a shout from the other bank that the bridge was torn up. He "leaped with his arms into the river and swimming across ... he emerged upon the shore without having lost any of his arms."[5] Livy's version has him uttering this prayer:[3] "Tiberinus, holy father, I pray thee to receive into thy propitious stream these arms and this thy warrior."