While some of us are falling into illness, some are recovering. For proof, go to www.princeton57.org where you’ll find a photo of a contented WHIT WALES holding a huge stripped bass he caught on a small fly five days after the first anniversary of a heart transplant. Meanwhile, JAY LEHR, six months after acquiring a new knee, is playing his best ice hockey in 15 years, he reports, training for an Ironman Marathon and jumping out of planes. He’s also working four jobs and last year had two new books published. At a Princeton Club luncheon, JOEL DUBERSTEIN and JOHN EWADINGER found that they’d suffered from the same rare affliction, mantle cell lymphoma. Each looked as good as new.

A quote from JIM CONNOR speaking to BART REITZ on a nine-day bike tour in Italy: "How did you get me into this?” The two were the oldest "by thirteen years,” of the 28 riders, Bart said. They averaged 50 miles a day up and down steep hills, never finished first but never needed to resort to a lift in the tour van.

MARTY BERMAN’s wife, Irene, has had published a book entitled, "We Are Going to Pick Potatoes, Norway and The Holocaust, The Untold Story.” Irene and her family escaped to neutral Sweden in 1942. Of the Jews who remained, the Nazis sent 771 to Auschwitz. Irene met Marty in 1960 when he was in medical school in Brooklyn. BILL FOLTZ’s in-laws also were Norwegian Jewish. They left with Anne Marie, Bill’s future wife, for Sweden two years before Irene’s family.

NOTES AND NEWS

In going through his recently deceased mother’s books, GARRY LANE came across this: "A Mirror of Nantucket” by GEORGE FOWLKES, published with illustrations in 1959. (5/08)

The International Center for Spirit at Work, an international organization, awarded a book PETER PRUZAN and his wife, Kirsten, wrote its prize of "The Best Book of the Year 2007.”  The book is titled, "Leading with Wisdom, Spiritual-Based Leadership in Business.”  The Pruzans spend half the year in India where Peter teaches candidates for Ph.D.s research methodology and the other half at home in Denmark. (5/08)

BILL VERNER’s daughter, Alexandra Verner Roalsvig, received an Emmy in 2007 as a member of the director’s team of "As the World Turns.”   This comes from Bill’s widow, Abbie; Bill died in 1986.  Abbie is doing fine.  She’s employed in fund-raising research by Union College.  (5/08)

The Legal Media Group included ANTHONY FLETCHER in its 2008 "Guide to the

World’s Leading Trademark Law Practitioners.”  His name is among 200 others, chosen

from 3,500 questionnaires prepared by his peers. His firm is Fish & Richardson, New

York City, founded in 1878.  (5/08)

The American Academy of Arts and Letters inducted BOB CARO into its membership.  Membership is limited to 250 writers, artists, composers and architects; a new member is elected when another dies.  Election to membership is considered the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in this country. ED SAID was a member.  (5/08)

ED SAID’s fame, considerable when he was alive, is growing.  Columbia University has created a literature chair in ED SAID’s name. Somewhat related, The New Yorker raises Ed’s name in an article (4/14/08) on a petition to deny a respected Arab woman scholar tenure at Barnard College.  One of the petition’s supporter’s blamed a supposed "undermining of the humanities” at Columbia on a collapse of academic values beginning with Ed.  The New Yorker writer said, "His name and face were familiar to academics and activists all over the world. . . his presence gave the Palestinian movement a large measure of whatever credibility it gained. . . Today his legacy is as strong as the hatred it provokes in Israel activists.”     

Notwithstanding Parkinson’s, BILL FOLTZ taught a graduate seminar on Africa, his specialty, at Yale during Spring semester ’08.  (5/08)

PETER PAINE is the new The Fort Ticonderoga Association president.  Peter’s Adirondack roots go back to the 1880s when his great-grandfather acquired a paper mill in Willsboro NY where Peter lives and where he is chairman of the Champlain National Bank.  He helped draft the Adirondack Park Agency Act, is a trustee of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and was general counsel to the Lake Champlain Committee.   

AL KISSLING is rebuilding his long-term care insurance business so as to have some cash with which to live and to attend a ’57 mini.  He dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination to represent New Mexico in Congress.  The reasons included an inability to raise enough money to hire enough staff to coordinate efforts to raise more, illness during the campaign and the antipathy of Democratic Party regulars.  The primary winner was a man in the oil business with a ninth-grade education.  Al is organizing political chapters in southern New Mexico to help change the system.  (7 and 11/08)

"I am still happily living in Tulsa and have married again, keeping my old McIlhany name,” said Mary McIlhany, widow of Milt.  "My new husband is Harley Galusha, a Tulsa ophthalmologist.  Enjoying a lot of travel, especially when visiting our daughters.”  (6/08)

In its obit of Michael DeBakey, The New York Times quoted JERRY MORTON, who trained under Dr. DeBakey, as saying, "He could be as sweet as dripping honey when it came to patients and medical students, and could be brutal with surgical residents. I guess he was trying to make it tough.”  (7/08)

MICHAEL and Joan BOWMAN’s son, named after Mike and called Bo, died suddenly at age 39 at a New York hospital.  He’d attended Trinity-School, Vassar and Sarah Lawrence, and was employed as free-lance makeup artist.  The death notice said, "His greatest gift was making everyone with whom he came into contact feel special.  Bo was the kindest, most adorable, fun-loving, creative, loving man who has ever graced Manhattan.”  (7/08)

"I need a bit of stress,” commented GORDON MACKENZIE, who apparently had his share of it in his career at IBM.  He fulfills that need as a docent at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.  "Whenever there’s a new exhibit, the curator gives us a lecture,” he said. "Then we go off on our own and study each of the pieces.  The exam comes when we take visitors on an hour-long tour.”  Gordon also plays competitive bridge.  (7/08)

"Worlds of Our Fathers, a Journey of Jewish History in Germany and Eastern Europe” is the subject of a tour KEN BLOCK has organized with departures in June, July and October.  A photo of Albert Einstein graces the cover of the brochure.  See www.matterhorntravel.com. (10/08)

In response to the PAW Class Notes on classmate bicyclists who ride in miles the number of their years on their birthdays, SHEP DAVIS said that in his 75^th year, he’d shot 73 on a par 70 gold course and 75 in a par 72 course. (10/08)

JOHN EATON has been teaching composition at the University of Iowa, helping a professor-friend who is on leave and another professor, a former student at the University of Chicago who is ill. (10/08)

NORM AUGUSTINE’s latest award is the National Aeronautic Association’s Wright Memorial Trophy as a "legendary and inspirational aerospace leader,” GEORGE CARNEAL reported.  (10/08)

"Trying to retire so I can have more time for tennis and fun with Sherry,” SAM WILLIAMS wrote. (9/08)

ART HULNICK is in his 20th year of teaching at Boston University.  "I still have the oomph,” he commented.  (9/08)

More than 50 years after his last finals at Princeton, JACK MARTINSON has passed the Series 7, 24, 28 and 63 exams to expand his energy advisory service in Houston to a broker/dealer, he wrote.  (9/08)

The NY Times ran a big story with photos of a remarkable weekend house on a mountain side in Saugerties NY that Susan and BYRON BELL designed. The Bells hired rock climbers to put up the rafters and shingle the roof.  The house holds part of their extensive crafts collection.  (11/7/08)

The Times also featured DICK FISHER’s performing arts center, designed by Frank Gehry, at Bard College.  (10/7/08)

The John Burroughs School in St. Louis chose TONY and Susan ABBOTT’s son Andy has head of school, effective in July.  Andy taught grades 11 and 12 English there and in 2001 was appointed assistant head of school.   GATES AGNEW graduated from Burroughs.  DON STREETT passed this on.  (10/08)

"The dark side of wind power,” Forbes quotes JAY LEHR of saying is that spinning windmill blades hack up lots of birds in mid-flight.  Jay says that windmills are not as environmentally friendly as many have been led to believe.  (6/16/08)

DON WEISNER continues to preach and lead worship in two Episcopal churches in North Carolina.  He also sails, travels and interviews applicants for Princeton.  (10/08)

ANDY FLAXMAN has conducted three seminars of late, part of his on-going Educate Yourself for Tomorrow program.  One was titled Ben Franklin and His Relationship to Freemasonry and Rosicurianism. The second was Freedom and Self-Government. The readings were "The Liberty Bell Papers” by Virginia Moore, "The Grand Inquisitor,” by Dostoevski, and "Founding Brothers” by Joseph Ellis. The third, in April 2009, is titled "Economics and the Profit Motive.” "The present economic crisis presents a unique opportunity to rethink (re-pent) our attitude about values and money,” he wrote.  See www.onlinehumanities.comor call him. (11/08)

A propos of the PAW series by JOHN MILTON on early classmate marriages, JOE GLASS wrote that after MILT and Ruth RUBIN’s wedding, he and Bobbie drove them, as Milt instructed, to the back door of a hotel on Central Park West in NYC.  Milt, Joe said, didn’t want the Glass’ to know where they were spending their wedding night.  Joe and Bobbie were married in August 1958, before Joe's second year of medical school at Columbia, P&S.  Their union has produced four children and four (so far) grandchildren, none of them a doctor, Joe laments. The Glasses are enjoying their "golden years" in the Berkshires where Joe likens himself to a "country squire (bumpkin?)” and Bobbie produces and hosts a TV talk show, "Suddenly We're Seniors.”  (11/08)

DALE and Beverly BUSCH visited during a tour of the Black Sea in July the birthplace in Ukraine of Beverly’s paternal grandparents, ethnic Germans invited by Russia to settle there.  They left prior to the Russian Revolution.  (11/08)