Class Note 1964
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
Almost five years ago a number of classmates gathered in San Francisco to engage in a collective celebration of our 70th birthday. Next year most classmates will turn 75. To commemorate that occasion the class will be holding its 75th birthday celebration in Scottsdale, Arizona, March 13-16, 2017. An email from Ray Peters and Hunt Whitacre informed most classmates of the event, but some of you either do not receive or choose not to read email. Therefore, I am alerting you to this event in these class notes.
The location was chosen by consensus from those who returned a survey emailed to classmates. In Scottsdale March weather is wonderful, Major League Baseball spring training is in full “swing” and top golf is available. The planning committee for this mini-reunion is Newell Grant (chair), Bob Engelman (finance), Fritz Corrigan, Jerry Dorros, Steve Sherman, Bill Hamm and class officers. Other classmates planning to attend are Ray Peters, Neal Stanley, Ken Lapine, Pete Koenig, Ed Gingras, Hauser Weiler, Sabin Danzinger, Hunt Whitacre, Larry Williams and Harvey Tettlebaum.
We have a contract with the Scottsdale Marriott at McDowell Mountains (480-502-3836) for $259 plus taxes per room per night. This rate applies for reservations made between now and mid-January 2017, as long as rooms are available. The committee has planned a variety of daytime activities from which to choose, but we will all gather together in the evenings. Our celebration includes dinner at the Marriott on Monday, March 13, a sundowner at the home of Jerry and Myra Dorros on Tuesday evening (dinner on your own) and, on Wednesday evening, cocktails and dinner at the home of Fritz and Glenda Corrigan. It is not too late to RSVP by sending an email to Bob Engelman at lvbrse@aol.com. Let Bob know which of the following daytime activities interest you.
March 14: Major League Baseball spring training at Talking Stick Stadium, golf scramble at a top course, Heard Museum, Museum of the West, guided birding tour, Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin West home and studio, Musical Instrument Museum.
March 15: hike and lunch (included) at Desert Mountain led by Bob Engelman and his wife, Lynn Van Buren, guided tour of Phoenix Botanical Garden put together by Judy Grant, golf tee times, Heard Museum, Taliesin West, Museum of the West, Musical Instrument Museum.
Tentative costs, not including hotel: $360 per person (includes two dinners, cocktails, breakfasts at hotel, event transportation).
Not to be maudlin, but for some of us this may be the best opportunity to enjoy the company of our classmates. Our next full reunion is not until 2019. Most of us by then will be 77 years old. I have found that the difference between how I felt at 70 and how I feel close to my 75th birthday (I am a December baby) is amazingly different and less enjoyable. So, while we are still able to move about under our own power or with appropriate assistive devices, Scottsdale in March is delightful.
—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com
The location was chosen by consensus from those who returned a survey emailed to classmates. In Scottsdale March weather is wonderful, Major League Baseball spring training is in full “swing” and top golf is available. The planning committee for this mini-reunion is Newell Grant (chair), Bob Engelman (finance), Fritz Corrigan, Jerry Dorros, Steve Sherman, Bill Hamm and class officers. Other classmates planning to attend are Ray Peters, Neal Stanley, Ken Lapine, Pete Koenig, Ed Gingras, Hauser Weiler, Sabin Danzinger, Hunt Whitacre, Larry Williams and Harvey Tettlebaum.
We have a contract with the Scottsdale Marriott at McDowell Mountains (480-502-3836) for $259 plus taxes per room per night. This rate applies for reservations made between now and mid-January 2017, as long as rooms are available. The committee has planned a variety of daytime activities from which to choose, but we will all gather together in the evenings. Our celebration includes dinner at the Marriott on Monday, March 13, a sundowner at the home of Jerry and Myra Dorros on Tuesday evening (dinner on your own) and, on Wednesday evening, cocktails and dinner at the home of Fritz and Glenda Corrigan. It is not too late to RSVP by sending an email to Bob Engelman at lvbrse@aol.com. Let Bob know which of the following daytime activities interest you.
March 14: Major League Baseball spring training at Talking Stick Stadium, golf scramble at a top course, Heard Museum, Museum of the West, guided birding tour, Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin West home and studio, Musical Instrument Museum.
March 15: hike and lunch (included) at Desert Mountain led by Bob Engelman and his wife, Lynn Van Buren, guided tour of Phoenix Botanical Garden put together by Judy Grant, golf tee times, Heard Museum, Taliesin West, Museum of the West, Musical Instrument Museum.
Tentative costs, not including hotel: $360 per person (includes two dinners, cocktails, breakfasts at hotel, event transportation).
Not to be maudlin, but for some of us this may be the best opportunity to enjoy the company of our classmates. Our next full reunion is not until 2019. Most of us by then will be 77 years old. I have found that the difference between how I felt at 70 and how I feel close to my 75th birthday (I am a December baby) is amazingly different and less enjoyable. So, while we are still able to move about under our own power or with appropriate assistive devices, Scottsdale in March is delightful.
—Harvey Tettlebaum, 56295 Little Moniteau Road, California, MO 65018; (573) 761-1107; dartsecy64@gmail.com