It’s spring, and the final countdown for our 45th reunion. Not too late to be a walk-on! Or drive in or fly in. June 13 through 16. Details on our weekend should be arriving all spring. Bob Jordan, who is planning to come, wrote a long and newsy letter (thank you, Bob). After two years in the Peace Corps in Bogota, Columbia, he has spent the last 42 years in northern California. He married wife Jennifer in 1986 a year after meeting in Cozumel, Mexico, on a scuba trip. Bob retired in 2003 after 28 years with the California Human Development (CHD) Corp., where he served as operations director. Bob serves on the CHD board of directors and more recently on the board of the Cloverdale (California) Historical Society. Bringing attention to the post-World War II immigration of Mexican braceros, and their accomplishments, is a rewarding endeavor. His words on retirement: “I still work, there’s just no pay.” Jennifer still works in private practice as a licensed clinical social worker and sometime family therapy and counseling and hopes to retire in a year or so. Son Andrew, now 22, is finishing up in business at California State University at Chico. Writing from Iowa, Susie and Paul Stageberg sing in their local chamber choir, and participate in a “Bach for a Day” event several times a year. In these events volunteer singers work on a Saturday with a professional conductor and orchestra to put together a presentation that evening. Great musical stimulation, he reports. And news from some who probably can’t make the reunion: Peter Brown is still actively practicing information technology law and arbitration in New York City with the firm of BakerHostetler. Wife Celeste is in entrepreneur in the fashion business. Son Jonah is working for a market research firm in Beijing, China; daughter Malina has an active career in public relations and is also the happy mother of two lovely daughters, Eloise and Evelyn. Peter is also active in several local charities, including the Lincoln Center Institute. He recently bumped into Jeff Garten, who has “become a heartthrob to many women” through his cameo appearances on the cooking show of his wife, Ina. Rob Lynn retired from district court in Minneapolis in 2007 after 19 years, but is only semi-retired, as he works from home as a mediator/arbitrator in civil lawsuits. Now busier than he had planned, he is trying to figure out how to cut back, which he notes is a good problem to have. With wife Patty he enjoys travel, most recently to New Zealand and Australia for three weeks. Jim Noyes will be in Europe in May and June (some leisure, some business) and also miss this reunion, but is committed to mini-reunions at Bandon (Oregon) Dunes (golf) and Jackson Hole, Wyoming (skiing). Sadder news to share: Sherman “Rocky” Fredrickson passed away from esophageal cancer on January 24; watch the alumni website for the full obituary. Don’t stop the news flow…there will be columns to fill for magazines after the reunion!


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; davidbpeck@aol.com