Reunions are in the air, and our 50th is just about 13 months away. Feel free to start your diet and pull out the suitcases.


Four classmates got an early start on memory sharing in early February. Margot and Don Graves, Steve Abram, Judy and Rob Cleary and Flo and Steve Zeller gathered at the Cleary home in Novato, California, to celebrate 50 years of friendship. Rob, who is battling Parkinson’s disease, was recovering from a broken rib, but was in good spirits.


Don Graves is also gearing up for a motorcycle trip from the left coast to Northeast Harbor, Maine, in May. He’s happy to welcome riders along the way. The Internet indicates it’s about a 3,600-mile journey. So Don may still be moving along those blue roads when this issue hits the streets. Safe travels, Don.


A reunion of sorts also took place down under in January. Jane and Bill Higgins had joined Karen and Bob Serenbetz for a trip “down under,” visiting New Zealand and Australia. While waiting for a tour to start in Auckland, who should appear but classmate Rick Worland, who may well hold the class record for most cruises. No surprise that Rick and the Serenbetzs will be among the ’66ers on board the Silversea Norwegian Fjord cruise this July.


Obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Bill Ramos still practices—one week on, one week off—in Las Vegas. In that week off he does lots of volunteer flying for Angel Flight West, which provides free air transportation in private aircraft for needy folks going for medical treatment, and for Veterans Air Command, which does the same for wounded warriors.


“Just last week,” Bill reported in February, “I was flying a wounded Army major from Palo Alto, California (Stanford Hospital), to San Diego. When Los Angeles air traffic control found out that I had wounded warriors on board they vectored me through some restricted military airspace for a shortcut. A Marine Corps jet also gave us a fly-by.” Good stuff.


Two Petes are back to doing things they love and are very good at. Peter Prichard, former USA Today editor and a past president of the Newseum, has been called out of retirement to run the Washington, D.C., museum of journalism and the First Amendment, and its nonprofit parent, the Freedom Forum. (Unsolicited testimonial: The Newseum is visually stunning and stimulating, an inventive and exciting look at our history. It should be high on any must-see list in D.C.)


And Peter Dorsen is back on skis, coaching the Eden Prairie (Minnesota) High School state championship cross-country team, teaching skiing and still racing. He celebrated his 70th competing in the North American Birkebeiner, the largest cross-country race in North America.


Our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of classmates George Berry and Kipp Crickard, who both passed away in the last months of 2014. More information can be found in the online version of the alumni magazine.


—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (917) 747-1642; lgeiger@aol.com