Happy New Year (or almost) to all ’72ers! 


Your executive committee has challenged me with tracking down and reporting the latest news on “missing classmates,” and there are a lot (of you!) out there. Based on the College’s latest contacts list, we’re missing 40 percent of e-mail addresses and 14 percent of home phone numbers based on the 805 guys who started in fall 1968. So here’s my challenge to y’all, starting with the A’s: What’s the latest on James D. Addis, Zsolt S. Alapi, Jack Anderson, Bruce A. Andrews and Richard L. Arnett? And if you’d me to help find other classmates, give me a shout!


Quick factoid on our class roaming ’round the girdled earth: We now live in 55 U.S. states or territories and Canadian provinces (I’ll summarize rest-of-world next time round), led by Massachusetts with 79, California with 68, New York with 59, New Hampshire with 44, and 1 each in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, West Virginia and Nova Scotia and Quebec, Canada.


Mark Foster shared with me his news from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: “Lee and I just celebrated our 30th. My son Markie is an assistant attorney general in Albany, New York, and daughter Susie is teaching Mandarin in Barcelona while her husband gets a degree in economics. We have two children by Lee’s first marriage, one working on Wall Street, the other in London. I’ve just chalked up my 26th year teaching English at Middlesex School in Concord. We built a house out on the Wild West end of Martha’s Vineyard nearly 20 years ago and plan to go there soon, permanently, to raise goats and chickens (Lee doesn’t know about the goats and chickens part). Life has been pretty good.” 


Rags Bratz reports, “Life in Norway is good, apart from a small heart problem I have been struggling with during the last couple of years. It limits my possibilities to travel slightly, but it is something I have to live with. We in Norway are distant from all the problems in Europe; because of the oil, we are rich as hell, at least the government. On a personal note, I have done my duty for the future of Norway; with my wife, Kristin, I’ve brought four boys into our society, all of them now grown, and working around Oslo.” 


Wedding bells coming! Thurm Lowans and SuZ Clarke announced their engagement, no date set yet for their happy day. Thurm stood up with me during my wedding in July 2011, and he and SuZ danced the night away. Congrats, big fella!


Sorry to end on a sad note, but we lost two ’72s in October. You can find obituaries on Jim Tilden and Don Fangmeyer in John “Rocky” Rockwell’s newsletters. Our condolences for Jim’s and Don’s families.


Please continue to send your updates and news to me.


—Bill Price, 12 Lummi Key, Bellevue, WA 98006; bill@drivasolutions.com