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:

25 February 2012	Alumni Day with lunch at Jadwin, and many other activities , including a Service of Remembrance in the Chapel at 3pm
20 March 2012	Class Dinner with 1961, at the Princeton Club in New York City, featuring Mike Iseman ’61. Program and signup information are here
31 May - 3 June 2012	Reunions, our 52nd

Current News

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

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