Our great class will celebrate its 50th reunion on June 11-15, 2021. Tom and Judy Oxman, Jim and Sam Bays, and Bob and Lisa Lider are reunion committee co-chairs. Joining them on the reunion committee and serving in the following capacities are Kathy Duff Rines (beverage and entertainment), Mickey Stuart (faculty contact and panel coordinator), Barry Brink (music and sports), Jim Bays (treasurer), Jeff McElnea (marketing), David Edson (memorial service), Martha Shanahan (widows outreach), Alice Reno Malone (adopted classmates), David Aylward (editor, 50th reunion book), Malcolm Jones (mini-reunions), and Ted Eismeier (50th reunion webmaster). The 50th reunion book team includes David Aylward (editor), Steve Zrike (deputy editor), Mark Bellonby (design), Peter Pratt and class officers (advisory committee), Kathy Duff Rines and Alice Reno Malone (exchange students), and Bernie Wysocki, Dan Clouse, Frank Anton, Ted Eismeier, and Steve Zrike (articles). Four new classmates were adopted by our class in late 2019, including Florence Fowkes (Sarah Lawrence, member of Foley House, and nominated by Alice Malone); Jon Fox (William & Mary, spouse of Darrell Hotchkiss,and nominated by Peter Pratt); Paula Sweeney (nominated by Louise Weeks Thorndike ’70), and William Legge, the 10th earl of Dartmouth, who joined our class at the end of VOX and visited with many of our executive board, students, administrators, and faculty. Kathy Duff Rines and Peter Prattnominated Lord Dartmouthto further underscore his families’ deep ties to the College and expand our class focus on global leadership. Albert Lamarre reports: “In November classmate Roger Prince and his wife, Noelle, plus my wife, Janet, and I, attended the monthly meeting of the Northern California Geological Society. The speaker was a retired U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geologist who talked about ‘Earthquakes of the East Bay.’ It was pretty scary. Everyone knows of the San Andreas Fault, which produced the 1906 earthquake centered near San Francisco, but there are many lesser-known faults parallel to the San Andreas on the east side of San Francisco Bay. Roger and I know of the Calaveras Fault, since it passes less than a mile from Roger’s house in Danville and about two and one-half miles from my house in Dublin, but I did not realize how active it is. Its most damaging earthquake was in 1861, when it produced a magnitude 6.0 earthquake (on a scale of 1.0 to 9.0). Since 1970 there have been seven swarms of earthquakes on the Calaveras Fault not far from where we live. Although these earthquakes have been too small for us to feel, they sure caught the attention of the seismologist at the USGS! The speaker ended his talk by saying there is a 25-percent chance of a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurring on the Calaveras Fault in the next 30 years.” Congratulations to Elaine Bromka and her daughter, Julia Phillips, on Julia’s debut novel, Disappearing Earth, and her nomination as one of the five 2019 National Book Award finalists.

—Bob Lider, 9225 Veneto Place, Naples, FL 34113; liderbob@yahoo.com