Class Note 1968
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A happy and productive fall to everyone. Depending on when this magazine arrives, the October 23 thru 25 mini-reunion weekend in Hanover will be about to happen or will have just happened. If in time, consider this an open invitation to join us—always lots of fun. And of course, further out, pencil in the week of February 27, 2010, at Lake Tahoe, California, for class ski trip. Mixed bag of incoming news. From our slow-growing Facebook group: Dick Jones checked in with family news. Bad news is that his father, Ken Jones ’42, passed away last year. Good news: wife Martha, formerly in aircraft insurance, has taken up spinning wool and loves it. And Dick retired from McCormick in computer programming, but works as a contractor for Lockheed Martin on an assignment to the Social Security headquarters. Not as much money, but 5 percent of the stress. Son Matt married Hailey two years ago and works for Allegheny Power; daughter Kristen, a graphic designer, is between jobs and living in D.C. Dick Olson wrote that he is reading The Odyssey out loud to wife Deb while she works on a quilt for their first grandchild, due in October. Class of 2031? Egads, time is flying. Dick is reminded the poem was meant to be listened to, with remarkable imagery. John Pierce wrote that he is moving from Calgary to Gabriola Island, British Columbia, and noted an open invitation to any and all visitors to Vancouver Island. Bill Rich pointed out a mystery classmate, Brohn Brengelbro, on Facebook. Check it out. Steve Calvert wrote in admiration for the quality of the music at the Newport Folk Festival. Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez and “the astonishing Joan Collins.” One happy surprise, the Gala Girls from Toronto—watch for them, he says. From a press release: Fred Wolf III, a partner in the Baltimore office of Ballard Spahr Andrews and Ingersoll, LLP, was elected to the board of directors of the United Way of Central Maryland. LinkedIn is our other group, now up to 10 and growing. Took me a while to get into it until I understood you needed to join LinkedIn before you could get to our group…duh. Our class group LinkedIn initiator Jim Morrison wrote about a new job, teaching managerial communication in the M.B.A. program at Babson College. He reports there is considerable curricular innovation at his program, combining writing and speaking tracks into the framework of strategic organizational communication. He had been at Western Connecticut State University, on weekdays, with weekends back in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Much better commute to Wellesley! He’s also been appointed to the board of Cohasset Cable Television and has been active in the Media Ecology Association for a decade or more, greatly enjoying being with and working with interesting and congenial people. He’s heard Cliff Groen may be retiring, but doesn’t see that happening for him any time soon. As wife Marilyn says, retire from what? News welcome, in any form; don’t be afraid of Facebook, or LinkedIn either.
—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu
Nov - Dec 2009
A happy and productive fall to everyone. Depending on when this magazine arrives, the October 23 thru 25 mini-reunion weekend in Hanover will be about to happen or will have just happened. If in time, consider this an open invitation to join us—always lots of fun. And of course, further out, pencil in the week of February 27, 2010, at Lake Tahoe, California, for class ski trip. Mixed bag of incoming news. From our slow-growing Facebook group: Dick Jones checked in with family news. Bad news is that his father, Ken Jones ’42, passed away last year. Good news: wife Martha, formerly in aircraft insurance, has taken up spinning wool and loves it. And Dick retired from McCormick in computer programming, but works as a contractor for Lockheed Martin on an assignment to the Social Security headquarters. Not as much money, but 5 percent of the stress. Son Matt married Hailey two years ago and works for Allegheny Power; daughter Kristen, a graphic designer, is between jobs and living in D.C. Dick Olson wrote that he is reading The Odyssey out loud to wife Deb while she works on a quilt for their first grandchild, due in October. Class of 2031? Egads, time is flying. Dick is reminded the poem was meant to be listened to, with remarkable imagery. John Pierce wrote that he is moving from Calgary to Gabriola Island, British Columbia, and noted an open invitation to any and all visitors to Vancouver Island. Bill Rich pointed out a mystery classmate, Brohn Brengelbro, on Facebook. Check it out. Steve Calvert wrote in admiration for the quality of the music at the Newport Folk Festival. Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez and “the astonishing Joan Collins.” One happy surprise, the Gala Girls from Toronto—watch for them, he says. From a press release: Fred Wolf III, a partner in the Baltimore office of Ballard Spahr Andrews and Ingersoll, LLP, was elected to the board of directors of the United Way of Central Maryland. LinkedIn is our other group, now up to 10 and growing. Took me a while to get into it until I understood you needed to join LinkedIn before you could get to our group…duh. Our class group LinkedIn initiator Jim Morrison wrote about a new job, teaching managerial communication in the M.B.A. program at Babson College. He reports there is considerable curricular innovation at his program, combining writing and speaking tracks into the framework of strategic organizational communication. He had been at Western Connecticut State University, on weekdays, with weekends back in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Much better commute to Wellesley! He’s also been appointed to the board of Cohasset Cable Television and has been active in the Media Ecology Association for a decade or more, greatly enjoying being with and working with interesting and congenial people. He’s heard Cliff Groen may be retiring, but doesn’t see that happening for him any time soon. As wife Marilyn says, retire from what? News welcome, in any form; don’t be afraid of Facebook, or LinkedIn either.
—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu