As I write this column in late February a number of our classmates have just enjoyed gathering in sunny Naples, Florida, for the third annual mini-reunion at the home of Yola and Jim Rager. This little reunion is just one of our hard-working class president’s continuing, and very successful, efforts to grow the numbers of these class functions all around the country during the past several years. And this coming week is another gathering out in Vail, Colorado, at the annual CarniVail ski outing. If you haven’t been able to make one of these convivial events, plan on it this coming year! In attendance in Naples, most with spouses, werehost Jim Rager, Peter Pratt, Charlie Collier, Jeff McElnea, Joe Jarrett, Bill Kennedy, Mickey Stuart, Michael Maynard, David Edson, Ted Eismeier, Tony FitzPatrick, Malcolm Jones, Bob Lider, Gerry Nielsten, Jerry O’Brien, Ed Hanley, John Bacon, Kathy Rines and, from the College, JanetRosa and Sandy Swan.I was in Hanover recently for the Class Associations and Group Organizations Weekend and had the great pleasure of dining with a number of our classmates at the Canoe Club restaurant. In attendance were Marsha and Peter Pratt, Bill Phillips, Darrell Hotchkiss and Jon Gilbert Fox, Judy and Tom Oxman, Ruth and Dick Wenzel, Pat and Tim Dreisbach and Jack DeGange. Earlier in February I noticed the following AP release in the local papers concerning Bob Cordy, “SJC Justice Cordy to Retire.” Bob has been an associate justice of the Massachusetts Judicial Court since 2001 and has decided this August will be his retirement date, although the mandatory retirement age is 70. He was nominated to the seven-member high court by then-Gov. Paul Cellucci, and this will give the current Republican Gov. Charlie Baker his first appointment to the state’s highest court. Bob had previously served in private law and in the public arena as a federal prosecutor and as chief legal counsel to Republican Gov. William Weld. From John Rogerson, “Still practicing orthopedics in Madison, Wisconsin, specializing in hip and knee replacement and resurfacing and shoulder arthroscopy. Living on Lake Monona in Madison; married to Cindy for 46 years, two kids, four grandkids. Loving life!” Russ Schleipman writes, “I am a road warrior of late, crossing the country and headed to Florida in the pursuit of showing the Porter Garden Telescope, a gem we have resurrected from the Smithsonian. It gets me in front of the rich and famous occasionally, even the queen in London. In fact, I head to Naples in a month, then Beverly Hills and Carmel, California. I see George Leach ’73 and John Clayman ’73 frequently in Boston.” Steve Muller writes, “Last June we sold the 1850 home on Troy, New York’s Washington Park that we renovated in 2003, and moved seven blocks to an apartment in a converted department store in downtown Troy. No move is easy, but after a career of moving every couple of years with the U.S. Department of State, we were not in the habit of accumulating possessions. The adjustment to apartment living has been pretty easy.”

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