As I write this edition of Class Notes in mid-February, 20 of our more intrepid classmates, significant others and friends are heading into Yellowstone Park for a very frosty mini-reunion among the wildlife and geothermal features. Classmates include Peter Pratt, Greg Fell, Michael Maynard, Don Eberly, Jeff McElnea, Malcolm Jones and Willis Newton. Our resident class geologist, Tom Loucks, has spent countless hours researching the fascinating history and geology of this super volcano known as the Greater Yellowstone Basin, and will be presenting an intriguing and educational program via webinar. He informs us that this largest of super volcanoes erupts roughly every 700,000 years, and we are now due (at least some time in the next 10,000 years!) for another major event. When this occurs it will be of a magnitude 1,000 times more violent than the Mount St. Helens eruption, and would be world changing. Maybe we should be scheduling more mini-reunions sooner rather than later? Our class historian, Nels Armstrong, in Newport News, Virginia, is recovering well from back surgery and enjoying life so close to siblings in Virginia. Gunnar Klintberg in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, writes about a Tau Epsilon Phi-Harold Parmington Foundation reunion in October. “Hilarious. Saw many for the first time in 40-plus years—Frank Anton, Peter Woodford, Rick Davis, Paul Hemmerich, among others, along with spouses.” Tony Owens writes, “I was motivated to write in by this month’s DAM, especially Denis O’Neill’s article on the train derailment and subsequent beer heist. I remember this all too well since I was convalescing after knee surgery and could only volunteer my car in hopes of acquiring some of the loot! Stimulating my memory further was your mention of Jim Coffey hosting a mini-reunion in Oregon. Jim was my first acquaintance in Hanover that fateful day we all arrived. We were standing in line waiting to get our linen at the linen service. Jim became Norm Webber’s roommate and Norm in turn became and still is my best friend. Norm and I still travel to the College Grant several times a year to fish and hunt grouse, something like 45 consecutive years now. We both serve on an advisory committee for management of the Grant. Beth and I still live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where I continue to enjoy my work in the emergency department of Maine Medical Center. We both love to garden and sail the Maine coast. Grandchildren number five.” Mac Barrett in Towson, Maryland, writes about his great enjoyment being part of the San Francisco weekend last July, singling out Malcolm Jones with kudos for his leadership and organizational skills in scheduling such excellent events. Mac urges others to participate in any future regional reunions. He continues, “I retired from the world of corporate public relations in 2006 and since 2008 have been doing development work and coaching baseball at Gilman School in Baltimore, where I graduated in 1967. My twins (Lucy and Allen) are 29 and launching their careers in Florida. I look forward to each visit.” That’s it from here—keep those Green Cards coming!


—Pete Webster, 7 Leblanc Drive, South Hadley, MA 01075; weebs71@gmail.com