Great Neck North/South High School
Class Of 1960
James Wynne
| Residing In: | Pikesville, MD USA |
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| Spouse/Partner: | Barbara J. (Silverberg) Wynne: wed in 1964 |
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| Occupation: | Scientist, Program Manager |
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Here is the short obituary for Donny, published in the September - October, 2021, issue of Harvard Magazine:
Donald Alan Bloch, A.B. '64, Ph.D. '71, died January 16 in Amsterdam. He spend most of his life after Harvard in Amsterdam, living first on a houseboat and later in a seventeenth-century house on the Keizergracht. He published several novels and some poetry, and accompanied his partner (later spouse), a Dutch anthropologist, on extended public service projects in Kenya and Indonesia. Inveterate travelers to India, they also collaborated on a book of photographs, Seduced by the Beauty of the World: Travels in India. He leaves his husband, Iman Bijleveld.
Submitted by Elizabeth "Betsy" Marcus (Dowling)
All of us girls remember Sally with great admiration and affection. She was a role model for those of us who aspired to be writers. Her "The Donut Book" is a delicious classic, and she deserves to be remembered as "America's Donut Princess."
Submitted by Elizabeth "Betsy" Marcus (Dowling)
Like so many of you, I remember Donny with affection and great admiration. He was so accomplished in so many ways, and he provided leadership to all of us and advice whenever anyone asked for help. He was one of a kind.
Posted on: Mar 19, 2021 at 4:33 AM
Donny and I were not only in high school together, we were both at Harvard for college and graduate school In grad school, I formed a squash racquets team that competed in the Boston area "B" league competition. Donny was one of the members of my team during the 1966-67 academic year. In browsing through my scrap book from my Harvard years, I came across this picture:
I'm kneeling on the right, Donny is squatting in the middle, and the four others are my grad school classmates and friends.
This picture brings back very fond memories. Donny was very special, and I think about him often, as do many of you.
Wishing you good health and a happy and fulfilling future.
I learned of Don's passing from Roz Avnet and informed Bobby Hamburger and Arthur Levi, who had been in regular contact with Don. They told me that he had died from COVID on January 15th. He had suffered from Parkinson's Disease for many years, which prevented him from attending our 50th reunion.
Don was our GN North valedictorian. He was Chief Editor of our ARISTA. If my memory serves me well, he was the top Latin scholar in NY state. He attended Harvard College, earning his BA in 1964, and earned a PhD from Harvard in 1971. Not only was he our top scholar in high school, he was also with me on our math and tennis teams.
He lived in Amsterdam for the past many decades (maybe ~40 years). He was a creative writer par excelllence. I recommend that you find and read his book "Seduced by the Beauty of the World: Travels in India," with photos from his colleague Iman Bijleveld, published by Harry N. Abrams in 2003.
Knowing his all-around excellence in high school encouraged me to reach higher, and I was rewarded by also getting admitted to Harvard. That's a debt to Don that I can never repay.
(I'll post another entry about Don, once I gather the information from his close friends.)
I learned of Don's passing from Roz Avnet and informed Bobby Hamburger and Arthur Levi, who had been in regular contact with Don. They told me that he had died from COVID on January 15th. He had suffered from Parkinson's Disease for many years, which prevented him from attending our 50th reunion.
Don was our GN North valedictorian. He was Chief Editor of our ARISTA. If my memory serves me well, he was the top Latin scholar in NY state. He attended Harvard College, earning his BA in 1964, and earned a PhD from Harvard in 1971. Not only was he our top scholar in high school, he was also with me on our math and tennis teams.
He lived in Amsterdam for the past many decades (maybe ~40 years). He was a creative writer par excellence. I recommend that you find and read his book "Seduced by the Beauty of the World: Travels in India," with photos from his colleague Iman Bijleveld, published by Harry N. Abrams in 2003.
Knowing his all-around excellence in high school encouraged me to reach higher, and I was rewarded by also getting admitted to Harvard. That's a debt to Don that I can never repay.
Jim
(I'll post another entry about Don, once I gather the information from his close friends.)
I learned of Don's passing from Roz Avnet and informed Bobby Hamburger and Arthur Levi, who had been in regular contact with Don. They told me that he had died from COVID on January 15th. He had suffered from Parkinson's Disease for many years, which prevented him from attending our 50th reunion.
Don was our GN North valedictorian. He was Chief Editor of our ARISTA. If my memory serves me well, he was also the top Latin scholar in NY state. Not only was he our top scholar in high school, he was also with me on our high school math and tennis teams.
He would get into any college to which he applied, and the winner was Harvard, where he earned his BA in 1964 and PhD in 1971.
Knowing his all-around excellence in high school encouraged me to reach higher, and I was rewarded by also getting admitted to Harvard. That's a debt to Don that I can never repay.
Don lived in Amsterdam for the past many decades (maybe ~40 years). He was a creative writer par excellence. I recommend that you find and read his book "Seduced by the Beauty of the World: Travels in India," with photos from his companion Iman Bijleveld, published by Harry N. Abrams in 2003.
Jim
1/23/2011 - Great to see all these comments, which recall how much we admired Donny and share how much he meant to us.
Celebrating 100th anniversary of the birth of my PhD advisor, Nicolaas Bloembergen. Posing on the steps of Pierce Hall, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA - March 8, 2020
Barbara and I are on the left of the top row.
Barbara & Jim with our grandchildren, Charlotte and Oliver, and our son, Keith.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Posted on: Dec 25, 2019 at 7:17 PM
Dear classmates,
With sadness, as well as fond memories, I remember Sally. She was the first girl with whom I had an actual date, sometime in our senior year. She was smart - our class salutatorian, kind, and a pleasure to know. At graduation, she wrote the following in my Arista: "Dear Jimmy, Next year at Harvard, we'll have to play tennis!"
But we never did play tennis. We went into very different fields, she into writing and I into physics. Although we were "neighbors" during our college years in the Boston area, she at Wellesley and I at Harvard, our paths did not cross. However, I saw her at several of our high school class reunions, where we always exchanged greetings and shared fond memories.
We met again at our 50th Reunion in 2010, where I gave a speech in the high school auditorium and held up a copy of her Magnum Opus - The Donut Book, published in 2004. Sally was known as America's Donut Princess, granddaughter of the man who invented the donut-making machine.
It's a "scrumptous" read. As a physicist, I particularly like this sentence: "If Einstein is right about the curvature of space, maybe space is a big donut with lots of munchkins floating in it."
We last met in 2012 in Cambridge, where we had lunch at the Casablanca restaurant (now closed), decorated to remind patrons of scenes from the classic movie starring Humphry Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. We talked about times gone by and old friends. Then we crossed the street to the Harvard Coop, where I bought another copy of The Donut Book.
Sally, wherever you are, I will always remember you with nothing but pleasurable thoughts. Right now I'm looking at one of my copies of The Donut Book, and thinking about taking a bite.
James' Photo Gallery
My father, Richard Wynne; my mother, Beatrice Wynne; my future wife, Barbara Silverberg; yours truly - at the Club Caribe, Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 1964. Don't we look happy?
Barbara and I were married that August, and I was even happier, and still am!!
I'm standing in the middle, holding up lyrics I wrote to "How High The Moon". Les is to the far right, playing a Les Paul/Gibson electric guitar. The women to the left is Joel Schmiegel, the wife of the inventor of Prozac.
James' Video Gallery