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has been archived and a blank slate has been furnished for the 55th.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,
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."
