Class Note 1968
Mid-fall greetings. Class activities galore in the next year and beyond. Golf at Bandon Dunes in Oregon is in early November; the contact is Ed Heald. Not too late to be a walk-on. Next on the schedule is the big east ski trip at Okemo in Vermont, January 26 through January 29, 2016. Further out, the western ski trip to Big Sky, Montana, March 5 through 12, the Danube River and Budapest cruise in April, the Virgin Islands cruise in May and our 70th birthday event in California in September. Put your travel agent on speed dial. Nice phone call from Jane and Sandy McGregor, en route to quality time with their first grandson, who computes to be a future member of the class of 2036 or so. It is their fifth trip from Arkansas to the Washington, D.C., area since their grandchild was born in late 2014. Grandchildren can be like catnip to new grandparents! Sandy and Jane’s elder daughter, Caroline, works for the U.S. Department of Energy. Their son-in-law develops apps for smart phones. Younger daughter Beth lives in England and is married to an economics professor at the London Business School; he is an oft-quoted commentator on the Greek economy. Son Kevin ’11 is an engineer with a national alarm company, also in the greater Washington area. Both fully retired, Sandy and Jane have traveled to Edinburgh and Barcelona and had a small-ship (450 passengers) cruise around the north Mediterranean. Some interesting Facebook postings: Liz and Dick Olson are going to Iran in October, among other things to visit the shrine to the poet Hafez, a poet much admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Peter Wonson’s daughter, Kate Holland, a tenured professor in the University of South Carolina system, was named the outstanding psychology teacher of the year. Congrats to Kate and her parents! Gerry Bell, besides extolling the big east ski trip, also issued a rant about a recent Sports Illustrated article, challenging its facts. The alumni memorial book fund confirmed recent book donations made by the class in the names of Larry Hall, John Jewett, Gary Brooks, Michael Sprando, Bill Kendall, George Merrill and George Moore. A near empty mail-email box, but a couple interesting ones: Peter Fahey shared that Northeastern area Phi Delt brothers—including Peter, Pete Baylor, Steve Elliott, Bill Lenehan, Joe Lowry, and John Mercer—have been getting together more frequently. Events have included Red Sox-Yankees at Fenway Park, meeting in the Narragansett-Newport, Rhode Island, area, tennis competition and twilight on Lake Winnipesaukee. One too-frequent mailing was an email from a classmate marooned in the Philippines, where he lost his wallet and needed a short-term loan to get home. Strangely similar to a letter I supposedly authored about a broken leg in the Philippines and that I needed to settle some hospital bills. Don Marcus: I hope you made it home; I did. I also have a new home (but same email address).
—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com
