Class Note 1956
Issue
May-June 2023
This is my first column as the secretary of our class. You will find my biography in the next class newsletter.
In order to produce the best possible column, I ask that you provide me by email, text, or U.S. Postal Service short articles on your current activities, commentaries on important events in your lives, and even musings with which you are comfortable. Absent regular input as described, I may be forced to use the allotted space to bore you with redundant and uninteresting information.
In order to encourage you to comply with my request, a few lines on your lineage as suggested by Jack Crowley would be in order. During my search of my father’s line, I found one of his sisters who I never knew existed and I also met my fifth cousin, who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Try it out and please your classmates.
The last few editions of this column have featured attempts at poetry. Limit your messages to your favorite word, containing its definition and reason for your offering it. For example, schadenfreude, which means “pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune,” is a favorite word of mine because it is currently appropriate to use in so many situations and may even reduce the level of anxiety that runs amok among some these days.
Absent sufficient commentary from classmates, I may be forced to episodically present chapters of my latest novel, tentatively titled Death By CPAP. Netflix and Simon & Schuster are both currently bidding on the rights to this tome. For those of you who have owned a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for more than seven years but have yet to use it even one night, my book will reinforce your decision to store the machine in your closet and thereby avoid rashes and facial disfigurement, not to mention disputes with your bedmate and an early demise. The salutary effect that the above narrative will have on those who are wedded to their CPAP is obvious.
—Chuck Woodhouse, 29 C Claudette Drive, Milford, MA 01757; (508) 202-2447; kirk8202@gmail.com
In order to produce the best possible column, I ask that you provide me by email, text, or U.S. Postal Service short articles on your current activities, commentaries on important events in your lives, and even musings with which you are comfortable. Absent regular input as described, I may be forced to use the allotted space to bore you with redundant and uninteresting information.
In order to encourage you to comply with my request, a few lines on your lineage as suggested by Jack Crowley would be in order. During my search of my father’s line, I found one of his sisters who I never knew existed and I also met my fifth cousin, who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Try it out and please your classmates.
The last few editions of this column have featured attempts at poetry. Limit your messages to your favorite word, containing its definition and reason for your offering it. For example, schadenfreude, which means “pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune,” is a favorite word of mine because it is currently appropriate to use in so many situations and may even reduce the level of anxiety that runs amok among some these days.
Absent sufficient commentary from classmates, I may be forced to episodically present chapters of my latest novel, tentatively titled Death By CPAP. Netflix and Simon & Schuster are both currently bidding on the rights to this tome. For those of you who have owned a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for more than seven years but have yet to use it even one night, my book will reinforce your decision to store the machine in your closet and thereby avoid rashes and facial disfigurement, not to mention disputes with your bedmate and an early demise. The salutary effect that the above narrative will have on those who are wedded to their CPAP is obvious.
—Chuck Woodhouse, 29 C Claudette Drive, Milford, MA 01757; (508) 202-2447; kirk8202@gmail.com