Counting down to our 50th reunion, classmates convene at the annual Homecoming mini-reunion October 21-23 for the Columbia game. Festivities begin Friday night at the Canoe Club followed by the parade and bonfire. Class meets Saturday morning in the Treasure Room at Baker, and everyone is invited. Tom Perry, chair of our volunteer contact program, reports on his quest to break reunion attendance records. Cocktails and dinner are Saturday night at the home of Dan Muchinsky and Mary Barnes and breakfast Saturday at the Hanover Inn. Sign up from your September newsletter or contact mini-reunion chair Sam Cabot at scabot@cabotfamily.com or (978) 927 2333 or just show up. Twelve non-smoking rooms are reserved in the class name through September 15 at the Comfort Inn in White River Junction, Vermont (802-295-3051). 


A bunch of classmates led by Bob Silverman and Barbara Berlin of Atlanta got a jump with their second annual mini-reunion in St. Augustine/Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, They included Howard and Janet Nannen, Harpswell, Maine; Ralph and Nancy Sanders, St. Augustine Beach; Mike and Jeanne Prince, Lyme, New Hampshire; and Bud and Marci Weinstein, Dallas. Bud played piano while the group discussed organic vegetable production, astrophysics, energy policy formation, workforce housing and environmental conservation. 


Thomas McInerny spent the summer campaigning to be president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which will be decided this fall. Thomas is associate chair for clinical affairs in pediatrics at the University of Rochester and editor of the American Academy Textbook of Pediatric Care. He has been married to Beverly, former gallery owner, now landscape artist, for 46 years, and has four children and five grandchildren. 


Twenty-five years ago John Black left the rat race. After earning a Stanford M.B.A. he worked in commercial banking for Citibank and then in investment banking for Salomon Brothers in New York. When new SEC rules made business more cutthroat, John cut out for Boston and the Cape, where he and Jane raised two children, Sam and Jessica. Jane tragically died from an infection in 2005. A few years later John met Margie Leof, a personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman in New York, remarried and moved to Westport, Connecticut. Now John pursues his passions of music and sports cars. He drives a Corvette VO 6 and a BMW M3, a high-performance version of the BMW 3 Series. John collects 12-inch LPs including jazz, folk and R&B. When Margie retires he expects to move to Florida or somewhere in the South. 


If you get to Atlanta this fall, visit the High Museum, where Jack and wife Russell Huber are exhibiting their collection of American impressionist and realist paintings, September 24 through November 27. The collection, titled “Embracing Elegance, 1885-1920: American Art from the Huber Family Collection,” is 30 years in the making. It recently finished a run at the Hood Museum in Hanover on September 4. John Merrow, PBS correspondent, and Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, discussed their new books together at a public event in New York.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 910, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@zlokower.com