A Message from Class President Phil Becton

[image of Class President Phil Becton] Welcome to our class website. It is designed to supplement ’60’s column in PAW as well as provide us all the opportunity to interact with our classmates. I urge you to use it. Photos or any other items of interest to our classmates will be posted for the benefit of all of us.

You may send news for PAW to our Class Secretary Dick Grieves by clicking here or on the link on every other page. As we are not all on line, PAW is still the only vehicle to reach all our classmates on a regular basis.

[Start planning now for our 50th Reunion!]
Planning Updates 107 days to go....

Events from previous years can be found on the Archives page.

Many classmates have already registered for Reunions 2010! Details are here .

The 1960 and 1961 Annual Class Dinner will be on Monday, March 1, 2010 with drinks at 6pm and Dinner at 7pm at the Racquet and Tennis Club, 370 Park Avenue (Bet. 52nd and 53rd Street) in New York City. Cost is $115 per person with Open Bar, Hors d'oeuvres, Dinner with wine.

Speaker will be Preston H. Haskell III ’60 who is the Founder and Chairman of the Haskell Company and a former Trustee of Princeton University. His speech is entitled “Global Best Practices and the United States.” Background on Preston’s career is here .

Start planning now to attend Alumni Day on Saturday, 20 February 2010. Information from the University is here .

John Cartier writes with an update on Class Dues which is here .

Josh Grehan ’10 has been named as this year’s Sachs Scholar. The announcement in The Daily Princetonian is here . The University’s press release is here .

The collected Clark Gesner papers have been donated to the Princeton University Library. A donation from the Class helped to support cataloging, and the entire collection is now available to the public. Information is here . We expect to have a small exhibition at Reunions.

Ed Smith makes an appearance on the Wild and Crazy page.

There is updated information on Clif Maloney's climb of Cho Oyu on the Wild and Crazy page .

John Cartier writes with a second appeal for Class dues .

The threat of bad weather, and who knows what else, consipired to drive down attendance at the Yale game on 14 November, preceded by a “tailgate lunch” in Jadwin Gym (left picture) and followed by the Class Cocktail Party in the Terrace Club Library (right picture). Seen somewhere were Evan Bush and Mack Emmert, Beth and Rick Carrick, Nancy and Bill Deiss, Philip Detjens, Vicky and Rich McGlynn, Bill McMillan, Joan Sachs Shaw, Mike Southwell, Peg and Dave Willard (fresh off the plane returning from Scotland), and Peggy and Tom Wing. Those who did attend got to see a very exciting (if not exactly errorless) victory by Princeton. photo credits: Diane Davidson ’s61, Beth Carrick
A special prize is being offered by Rick Carrick to the first person to identify what is wrong with the picture on the left above. Contact Rick to collect.

Nearly 20 years’ service as Chair of the Grad Board of Terrace Club by Dave Willard were commemorated upon his retirement with the dedication on 31 October 2009 of a formal portrait of him and the renaming of the upper living room as the “David A. Willard Room.” David remains as Chairman Emeritus.

Tex Harris reports: The Mid Atlantic Members of the Class of 1960 are planning to join together at Anna and Stanley Dees lovely farm “Crednal” starting at noon on Saturday, October 17 in Middleburg, VA for a catered country luncheon with added veggies. We will share the costs. Please email Terry.Cooper4@verizon.net and Tex.Harris@gmail.com.

A moving Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Clif Maloney, concluding with the singing of “Old Nassau,” was held on 9 October 2009 in New York City. The Class was represented by Kit Bond, Bush, Cartier, Detjens, Fuller, Rousseau, Joan Sachs Shaw, Southwell, and Williamson, some in Reunion jackets. The University was represented by both Paul Raeder ’h62, longtime Alumni Relations liaison, who had worked closely with Clif over many years, and his successor Nat Howe.

John Cartier, Class Treasurer, writes as follows about the Class’s dues collection:

The opening results for our first dues mailing this Fall has been very successful. We have received over 125 responses, including Class gifts and contributions to the Sachs Scholarship Fund. I am hoping that in this, our 50th year, we can do extremely well in terms of participation. My hope is to exceed the 400 Classmate number which would set a new record for participation and give us a strong balance for the Class treasury. An early response from everyone is very helpful.

Efforts for the 50th Reunion are underway and I encourage everyone to return your Registration forms as soon as possible. If anyone has any comments or questions about the Dues Appeal, please do not hesitate to call me at (212) 472-8177 or via email at JCartier@nyc.rr.com. The sooner you respond, the less expenses we will have to incur for additional mailings. Many, many thanks to all those who have already participated and to all those who will participate soon.

Virginia Maloney ’10 writes as follows:

My father, Clif Maloney, passed away last night [26 September 2009] at Base Camp 3 on Cho Oyu in his sleep. [His guide] Marty notified me this morning. Marty is safe and coming down the mountain... My dad's last words before going to sleep were “I’m the happiest man in the world. I’ve just summited a beautiful mountain.” We know that he died doing what he most enjoyed.

UPDATE At approximately 930am local time on 24 September, after a nine-hour climb in extreme cold, Clif summited Cho Oyu, the oldest [by four years] American ever to do so.

Clif Maloney is climbing again. As of this writing, he is camped at 22,000 feet on Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world (8201 m/26906 ft high), on the border between Nepal and China. He is aiming at summiting on Wednesday 23 September. A complete recap will appear on the Wild and Crazy page when he is back.

We know that at least two classmates were at the Citadel game on 19 September 2009: (from left) Mike Hanford ’68, Beaver, Willard.

Recent Deaths

This list will include all recent deaths of which we are aware. Watch for Class Memorials in PAW. If you have additions to this list, please contact us . Previous years’ lists can be found here.

Ed Pell, 4 January 2010
John Wharton, 9 November 2009
Clif Maloney, 26 September 2009
Gerald Hammond, 30 July 2009
David Daum, 1 November 2008

Information about locating Class Memorials is here. Special thanks to Paul Taylor for his work in collecting these.