A Message from Class President Philip Detjens

[image of Class President Philip Detjens] Welcome to the Class website. It is intended to supplement the Princeton Alumni Weekly and help disseminate timely information about the varied activities of the Class and facilitate more effective communication and interaction. Its content is constantly changing so please access it frequently and help us by supplying photos and items of interest that concern our Class. Its value is enhanced by your ideas and participation. The Princeton Alumni Weekly is the only vehicle that goes to all members of the Class, not just those with internet connections, so please continue to supply our Class Secretary, Dick Grieves, with news by clicking here .

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

Upcoming Events

Start planning now to attend the following scheduled events:

31 May - 3 June 2012	Reunions, our 52nd. Because we are an off-year Class, registration is free at 1962’s 50th Reunion location in Blair courtyard. 1962’s Reunions Activities brochure is here . The University’s Reunions information is here . Those wishing to eat either breakfast or lunch with 1962 may buy meal tickets at the registration desk for $10 and $15 respectively. But don’t buy lunch for Saturday; instead, sign up for the Class’s traditional pre-P-Rade luncheon here . Anyone wanting or needing a golf cart for transportation during Reunions can order one here .
20 October 2012	Class Tailgates and Cocktail Party after the Harvard game. Watch for more details as they become available.
23 February 2013	Alumni Day. Watch for more details as they become available.
30 May - 2 June 2013	Reunions 2013, our 53rd. Watch for more details as they become available.

Current News

The ’60 mini reunion to Cuba filled its 30 person limit within the first day. Princeton Journeys says it is common for there to be one or two cancellations so a wait list is being made. Anyone still interested should contact them.

The Class has made arrangements with Princeton Journeys, affiliated with the University, to organize a very special eight day mini reunion in Cuba. We will be visiting Havana, Cienfuegos, and Trinidad from October 20 to 27, 2012. The trip, exclusively for our Class, is restricted to 30 people. All details are posted here . Note that no applications or inquiries will be accepted prior to April 25, 2012.
13 April 2012

Nearly 50 people from both classes attended our annual Class Dinner with 1961 at the Princeton Club in New York City on Tuesday, 20 March, organized by John MacMurray ’61 along with Mike Southwell from our Class. Attendees enjoyed good food and wine, great socializing, and a stimulating speech by Mike Iseman ’61 on the reasons why the global effort to control tuberculosis is not succeeding as well as might have been hoped.

Attending were:
Jeff Beaver
Philip Detjens
Lee M. Fuller, Jr.
Marty Garrell
James Hirschy and Ruth Lynford
Tony and Jon Mansell
Rich McGlynn
Bob O'Hara
Jean J. Rousseau
Bill Sachs ’66
Joan Sachs Shaw
Jack and Maureen Siggins
Mike Southwell and Lillian Salazar
Gerry and Tamra Stoller
Olivia Waring ’12 (this year’s Sachs scholar)
Peter Williamson

President Philip Detjens introduced Olivia Waring ’12, this year’s Sachs scholar, who received amazed applause for her accomplishments and future promise; congratulated 1961 for having won at last year’s Reunions the Quenby Williamson Award for the best Reunions costume (more details below); and announced the Class’s planned mini-reunion in Cuba (more details above). More details on Mike Iseman’s speech can be found here . Sorry, there are no pictures.
21 March 2012

Final details have been set for the Class’s new award for the best Reunions costume, honoring Quenby Cullen Williamson, who designed the wonderful jacket we have been wearing since our 35th Reunion. The winning class will be memorialized on a silver plate (formerly belonging to Quenby) reading as follows:
Class of 1960
Quenby Cullen Williamson
Reunion Award
for the Class wearing the most
imaginative reunion costume

And it will carry a banner in the next year’s Reunions reading as follows:
Winner
Best Costume
Class of 1960
Quenby Williamson S60 P89 P91
Reunion Award
20 March 2012

[alumni day 2012 luncheon] Thirteen classmates and spouses participated in the Awards Luncheon at Alumni Day 2012 on Saturday, 25 February; others might have attended some of the morning lectures or other activities but have not been identified.

At the luncheon were:
Anna and Stan Dees (not in the picture)
Philip Detjens
Dick Limoges
Harry Lord (not in the picture)
Joan Sachs Shaw
Lillian Salazar and Mike Southwell
Peg and Dave Willard
Peter Williamson
Peggy and Tom Wing

[alumni day 2012 Service of Remembrance] President Philip Detjens represented the Class at the always-moving Service of Remembrance following the luncheon, and writes as follows:

I represented our Class at the Service of Remembrance which pays tribute to those in the Princeton community who have died in the past year or whose passing was learned of in the past year. ’60 classmates honored were:
Jack Cely Childers, Jr April 29, 2011
William Stephen Dietrich October 6, 2011
Raymond Morris Fox April 3, 2011
Arthur Benjamin Griffin August 27, 2010
Perry Edwards Hall II July 30, 2011
Lee Mathers Miller January 31, 2011
Todd Charles Miller October 29, 2010
Peter Hager Prugh October 10, 2011
James Russell Renick October 3, 2010
Richard Blair Stothers June 28, 2011
26 February 2012

The Sachs Scholarship Selection Committee has named Olivia M. Waring ’12, a chemistry major who is also receiving a certificate in Chinese language, as this year’s Sachs Scholar. More information, including Charles Gillispie’s 2012 update on the activities of the Sachs Scholars, is here .
8 December 2011, updated 5 January 2012

Seen somewhere at the Yale game on 12 September, either at Jadwin beforehand, at the game itself, or at the cocktail party afterwards at Terrace Club, were (sorry, no pictures):
Roger Barth
Jeff Beaver
Evan Bush and Mack Emmert
Philip Detjens
Bob and Mariam Gibbon
Ted and Jane Hilles
Tom and Carla Latta
Rich and Vicki McGlynn
Ross and Lucia Santy
Joan Sachs Shaw
Mike Southwell
Dave and Peg Willard
Tom and Peggy Wing
And possibly there were others.
12 November 2011

The University has announced that the first winner of the Quenby Cullen Williamson S60 Award, given to the class wearing the most colorful and imaginative reunions costume, is the Class of 1961. This award was organized by Peter Williamson and Class officers as part of our 50th Reunion, and was awarded for the first time at Reunions 2011.
17 October 2011

The University’s final report on Annual Giving 2010-11 is available here . As Nat Howe, the Class’s liaison to Annual Giving, previously reported:

Final results for 1960’s 51st Reunion campaign are participation of 68.8% (413 donors) and $188,935. 68.8% is above the ’60 final participation rates for 2006-07 (67.0%) and 2007-08 (68.1%). $189K is 13% above the $165,000 dollar goal, substantially above the $153,599 that was raised in the 49th (2008-09) and is the 3rd highest non major dollar result ever for 1960!
13 October 2011

President Philip Detjens’s September letter to members of the Class lists recent significant achievements, outlines plans for the rest of the year, and solicits dues payments, contributions to the Sachs fund, and news. Read it here .
13 September 2011

Sachs Scholar Josh Grehan ’10 emailed President Philip Detjens and Harry Lord, the Class’s liaison to the Sachs Scholarship Program, on 25 July 2011, describing his first year in Oxford and expressing appreciation for the Class’s “generosity and kindness.” Read his email here .
31 July 2011

Recent Deaths

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

Rev. James R. Renick, 3 October 2010
Jack Childers, 21 April 2011
Richard Stothers, 28 June 2011
Perry Hall, 30 July 2011
William S. Dietrich II, 6 October 2011
Peter Prugh, 10 October 2011
Alan Levy, 21 October 2011
Stuart Thomas Lyon, 25 March 2012

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