Letters to the Editor

1961 Blast from the Past

Upon receiving my Knox Magazine yesterday, I flipped it open and was surprised to find myself looking at me in line at the 1961 Pumphandle. I am on the left, standing next to Pam Mott, obviously lined up in surname alphabetical order. The other two males’ faces are familiar, but I can’t recall their names.

While starting with the class of 1965, I did not graduate until June 1966. I was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and remained lifelong friends with several brothers. My wife, Sallie, and I have been married for 57 years, have two sons, seven grandchildren and three great grands.

I retired in 1999, after 32 years in human resources positions with RCA Corporation (acquired by GE in the 1980s) divisions and subsidiaries including Consumer Electronics, Random House, CIT Financial, and Hertz Corp.

We hope to attend a delayed 55th class Reunion and see our friends and classmates from ’64, ’65, and ’66.

Thanks for the well-done magazine.

—Jon (Jody) Mount ’65

Photo Credit

The list of photo credits for the feature story “Teresa’s Top Ten” in the Spring 2021 issue of Knox Magazine should have included Evan Temchin ’10, who took the photo on page 12 of a graduate taking a cell-phone selfie with President Amott at Commencement in 2014. That’s a challenging photo situation. Evan is one of the best photographers I had the privilege to work with in my time at Knox.

—Peter Bailley ’74

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