There is no question about it. We are all feeling better and more upbeat than we did a year ago. While Covid constraints are still present, they are much less restrictive than in the fall of 2020. To be sure, when someone extends a hand in greeting, some of us do not know whether to grab the hand or our masks. While the term “normal” is being heavily overused, we do see campus life and our own lives recovering from the very abnormal state that we found ourselves in just a year ago. But that memory lingers on as we plan for our fall mini-reunion. It will be in November, and it will again be a Zoom event; that decision being driven by a stack-up of considerations, including classmates’ ability or desire to travel and the ability to get student, faculty, and administration participation in our mini from disparate locations all at a minimum of schedule or cost impact. So preliminary details have been provided, stand by for the agenda and the chat room details. In the comments received about our first Zoom mini, the importance and desirability of chat rooms was heavily emphasized.

Some of the southern California classmates were able to venture out of their Covid lockup and enjoy a luncheon together. Bob Filderman, George LeFevre, Charlie MacVean, and Randy Malin celebrated their newly found vaccinated freedom with an outing to Jimmy’s Famous American Tavern adjacent to the harbor in San Diego. It was a day of fine weather and lots of catch up.

While I am always on the hunt for news of classmates, I am now expanding that request to include pictures. Almost all of us have cellphones with cameras. Use them and send me pictures and I will get them posted on the class website. It might just be easier to take a picture and add a caption than to write me of your activities.

Be well and stay well!

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com