May 19, 1999
by Dick Prentke
REUNION RECEPTION AFTER P-RADE MAY 29
A BUDDING TRADITION AT TED TODD’S HOME
To initiate a rural theme for this column, our photo depicts a unique occurrence: one Princetonian donating a dump truck to another. (Of course, I anticipate letters, and possibly photographs, demonstrating earlier Princeton-to-Princeton dump truck donations, but for now I stand by the uniqueness of this event.) Paul Sisco (paul@acf.org), staff geneticist at the American Chestnut Foundation Research Farm, in Meadowview, Va., is shown with dump truck donor Ryman Herr ’47. The foundation’s mission is the restoration of the American chestnut tree, which once covered 25% of the Eastern forests but nearly became extinct because of a blight earlier this century.
John Funk is enjoying life in the country, notwithstanding its proximity to Dartmouth. Active on the planning board and Historical District Commission, he serves as a managing partner of his law firm and specializes in banking and finance law. Both kids are in college and doing well.
Bill Stanard recently moved from state government (wide area network services for the State of Vermont) back to the private sector at Logic Associates, a major graphics industry software developer, in White River Junction, Vt.
Dave Haberkern recently took an early retirement offer he couldn’t refuse. His family re-evaluated their priorities and desired lifestyle. They camped across the country in 1997 and decided on the Rockies. They left North Carolina in the summer of 1998 to settle in Whitefish, Mont., about 30 miles from Canada and Glacier Natl. Park, the site of the Big Mountain ski area and a wonderful community. Dave and wife Lori are being entrepreneurial, and son Luke (11) enjoys the year-round vacation area.
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO it was our first Houseparties Weekend. Some of us actually participated.
© 1999 Dick Prentke and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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