Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: Slater Society–1950s

1935
Henry Goebel writes to say, “Hello to all. Just wanted to check in to let folks know I’m still here.” He and his wife, Evelyn, had three children and nine grandchildren and enjoyed traveling in their retirement, including trips to Scandinavia, Alaska, Hawaii, and the South Pacific. Henry, the first president of the University’s glider club, lives in his hometown of Rochester.

1945
Don Fisher (see ’50).

1948
Letty Kirch Haynes is the author of Memories of Inlet, about her hometown in the Adirondacks.

1949
Marian Bacon Whitcomb is featured in the book We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II by Margaret Hewitt George.

1950
Kenneth Hubel, class correspondent, writes:

Betty Lou Babcock Fisher ’70W (Mas) wrote of her adventurous life with Don ’45 in the autobiographical Then and Now for our 50th reunion. She embellishes a Rochester life of golf, skiing, biking, raising two kids, and relishing five grandchildren with memories of her travels to Kashmir, Turkey, Africa, and Thailand. Last summer, Betty and Don spent two weeks in Aspen hiking, playing sports, listening to good music, and attending lectures. They have moved into a cottage at the University’s senior living center, The Highlands of Pittsford, close to the village and the old Erie Canal towpath (216 Stoutenburgh Lane, Pittsford, NY 14534).

A note from Kenn: My wife, Jan, and I biked that towpath and Erie Canal route in September 2005 on the way to my 60th high school reunion in Rye, N.Y. We visited with classmate Fred Remington and his wife, Claire, in Pittsford, left our van, then biked through Lyons, Weedsport, and Oneida. We climbed to hilly Clinton, then rode to Little Falls and stopped in Amsterdam to rent a pickup for the return to Rochester. In Syracuse, we passed within two blocks of the Memorial Hospital where, 50 years earlier, Jan and I met when she was a student nurse and I was a medical resident. We were a week too early for the most intense fall colors, but pedaling along the Mohawk River gave rise to images of German farmers fighting the English and Indians at Oriskany, as well as our memories of the rural beauty of rides along the Cherry Valley Turnpike during our college years.

I’ve enjoyed being your class correspondent for 12 years. In 1994 I admitted to being “a ‘junkie’ who is addicted to hearing from and seeing old friends.” I still am, but it has been increasingly difficult to find classmates to feed my addiction, and that could get even harder, as Rochester Review will now be published every two months instead of every four. If you have news that you would like classmates to know, please send it directly to Review at rochrev@rochester.edu. I hope that we Hubels will live healthily in North Liberty, Iowa, for some years. We are 8 miles north of Iowa City and Interstate 80 and are still addicted to seeing and hearing from old friends.

—Contact: Kenneth Hubel, 2562 Oak Circle N.E., North Liberty, IA 52317; (319) 626-6562; khubel@southslope.net.

1952
David Kearns, former CEO of Xerox Corp. and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, and a senior trustee of the University, was one of the first inductees into the Brighton (N.Y.) High School Alumni Hall of Fame last spring.

1956
Donald Messina ’57 (MA) writes, “After a career in public education, in my semiretirement (still teaching a little), I formed my own orchestra in 2003. We have performed more than six concerts and have recorded five CDs.”