Class Note 1969
Issue
Sep - Oct 2017
This will be an abbreviated column as I am working under the limitations of a crashed computer three weeks ago whose backup saved everything except my email folders on Outlook. As a result I am missing many of the bits of news I wanted to include herein. Combine that with the fact that Jo and I sold our property here in the Shenandoah Valley a month ago and are destined to be without a home in early June while we await financing and moving to be established in our new location. That may not happen before the deadline for this submission and I have never missed a column, following in the fine tradition of my predecessors, so this will be it! For those of you who visited us here, thank you for enjoying the beauty of this area with us. For those of you who missed that opportunity we have another for you—the mountains of Georgia 75 miles north of Atlanta. If you didn’t see us in Winchester, please come by Big Canoe.
I can honestly and without rancor say Allen Denison has ably covered all the events that have happened in his June newsletter. You all now know about the success of the Boston mini-reunion with more than 40 of us and spouses enjoying a May end of week. (Note: With so many of us retired we should be able to gather during the middle of any week more often. Weekends no longer govern our leisure time). It was refreshing to note the presence at that event of people not often mentioned in this column—Steve Barrett, Jim Becker, Clint Harris, Alan Lake, Dick Meckstroth, Fred Putnam, Jeff Saffer, to name a few, and many of them with wives or significant others. These minis are becoming more frequent, better attended and more enjoyable so please try to attend one near you or contact our mini-reunion chair Arthur Fergenson and create your own.
Those folks regularly in this column are still doing interesting things, as Paul Tuhus and Rick Willets placed Paul’s Jaguar in competition on a 150-mile, three-state Jag adventure through New England, earning them a first place in the “questions” category (appropriate) and a bottle of wine.
A very mini-mini occurred in February as Jo and I visited Dudley Kay and Jill in their new Sun City Hilton Head residence in Bluffton, South Carolina. It was a fun time with great hosts who have invited all of us to drop by—one at a time. Dud and Jill subsequently traveled to Gainesville, Florida, to meet with Alyson and Paul Sindelar, a fraternity brother with a career in special education academia, now a distinguished professor at the University of Florida.
There are plenty of opportunities for us to reunite before Homecoming in October so let’s all go find a classmate with whom we can share some time. Meantime, we will be settled in our home when you read this so come visit. Yes, Big Canoe appears twice in our address.
—Steve Larson, 837 Wildcat Trail, 10328 Big Canoe, Big Canoe, GA 30143; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com
I can honestly and without rancor say Allen Denison has ably covered all the events that have happened in his June newsletter. You all now know about the success of the Boston mini-reunion with more than 40 of us and spouses enjoying a May end of week. (Note: With so many of us retired we should be able to gather during the middle of any week more often. Weekends no longer govern our leisure time). It was refreshing to note the presence at that event of people not often mentioned in this column—Steve Barrett, Jim Becker, Clint Harris, Alan Lake, Dick Meckstroth, Fred Putnam, Jeff Saffer, to name a few, and many of them with wives or significant others. These minis are becoming more frequent, better attended and more enjoyable so please try to attend one near you or contact our mini-reunion chair Arthur Fergenson and create your own.
Those folks regularly in this column are still doing interesting things, as Paul Tuhus and Rick Willets placed Paul’s Jaguar in competition on a 150-mile, three-state Jag adventure through New England, earning them a first place in the “questions” category (appropriate) and a bottle of wine.
A very mini-mini occurred in February as Jo and I visited Dudley Kay and Jill in their new Sun City Hilton Head residence in Bluffton, South Carolina. It was a fun time with great hosts who have invited all of us to drop by—one at a time. Dud and Jill subsequently traveled to Gainesville, Florida, to meet with Alyson and Paul Sindelar, a fraternity brother with a career in special education academia, now a distinguished professor at the University of Florida.
There are plenty of opportunities for us to reunite before Homecoming in October so let’s all go find a classmate with whom we can share some time. Meantime, we will be settled in our home when you read this so come visit. Yes, Big Canoe appears twice in our address.
—Steve Larson, 837 Wildcat Trail, 10328 Big Canoe, Big Canoe, GA 30143; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com