Class Note 1970
Issue
January-February 2023
Covid kept most of us hunkered down for two-plus years. Let’s take a look at what travel plans some classmates have for 2023.
When Carol and I flew back from our March 2020 beach vacation in Mexico, the New York-based flight crew was already talking about this new disease that was spreading fast. We plan to be ready for a warm weather vacation this coming March.
Bill Wilson writes, “Ann and I had a three-week trip to Ireland scrubbed in 2020. We’re in the process of rebooking so I can rightfully claim a pint of Guinness from my McConnell ancestors.”
Scott Holland is excited about returning to Southeast Asia. He’s “disappointed that Vietnam isn’t offering tourist visas and that Qatar Air no longer has Q suites on its Boston-Doha route” but still plans to go back to Manila and favorite beaches in the Philippines. He’ll also return to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in Cambodia.
Barry Hart is already spending December through March in the new house they bought last year in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Speaking of Arizona, there’s talk of a class mini-reunion in Scottsdale in March. Watch for more info in upcoming class newsletters.
In other news, Don Hess writes that he and Ronne led their fifth “interfaith trip to Israel, which had been postponed from spring 2020, this past April-May. The group of 30 was mostly from Birmingham, Alabama.” Last September they joined three other couples and a guide for 10 days in the Grand Canyon and the southern Utah National Park.
Bob Whitcomb is still living in Providence, Rhode Island, and continues to write a weekly column, “Digital Diary,” at GoLocal24.com. He also runs a blog at NewEnglandDiary.com and is laboring on a book that is part history and part fiction.
Tom Peisch reports that Denis O’Neill’slatest novel, Canis dirus, is set in Yosemite Park and features (besides beautiful scenery) a pack of prehistoric wolves, militiamen, romance, and park rangers. Kirkus Reviews gave it a gold star, putting it in the top 2 percent of books it reviewed in 2022. (See mention on page 52.)
We close with congratulations to Lou Young, who was recently inducted to the hall of fame at the first school he taught and coached at (from 1974 to 1982) in Pebble Beach, California.
Here’s to a happy, healthy 2023! Just think, our 55th reunion is only 30 months away!
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com
When Carol and I flew back from our March 2020 beach vacation in Mexico, the New York-based flight crew was already talking about this new disease that was spreading fast. We plan to be ready for a warm weather vacation this coming March.
Bill Wilson writes, “Ann and I had a three-week trip to Ireland scrubbed in 2020. We’re in the process of rebooking so I can rightfully claim a pint of Guinness from my McConnell ancestors.”
Scott Holland is excited about returning to Southeast Asia. He’s “disappointed that Vietnam isn’t offering tourist visas and that Qatar Air no longer has Q suites on its Boston-Doha route” but still plans to go back to Manila and favorite beaches in the Philippines. He’ll also return to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in Cambodia.
Barry Hart is already spending December through March in the new house they bought last year in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Speaking of Arizona, there’s talk of a class mini-reunion in Scottsdale in March. Watch for more info in upcoming class newsletters.
In other news, Don Hess writes that he and Ronne led their fifth “interfaith trip to Israel, which had been postponed from spring 2020, this past April-May. The group of 30 was mostly from Birmingham, Alabama.” Last September they joined three other couples and a guide for 10 days in the Grand Canyon and the southern Utah National Park.
Bob Whitcomb is still living in Providence, Rhode Island, and continues to write a weekly column, “Digital Diary,” at GoLocal24.com. He also runs a blog at NewEnglandDiary.com and is laboring on a book that is part history and part fiction.
Tom Peisch reports that Denis O’Neill’slatest novel, Canis dirus, is set in Yosemite Park and features (besides beautiful scenery) a pack of prehistoric wolves, militiamen, romance, and park rangers. Kirkus Reviews gave it a gold star, putting it in the top 2 percent of books it reviewed in 2022. (See mention on page 52.)
We close with congratulations to Lou Young, who was recently inducted to the hall of fame at the first school he taught and coached at (from 1974 to 1982) in Pebble Beach, California.
Here’s to a happy, healthy 2023! Just think, our 55th reunion is only 30 months away!
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com