Dateline: Cambridge Massachusetts, October 29, 2011, 7 p.m.—Despite an all out blizzard complete with howling winds and blowing snow, 35 hard-core classmates and guests sat through a 30-14 Dartmouth-Harvard loss in the first Ivy League night football game in Harvard stadium history. Secretary’s Note: For those wondering what the definition of “hard core” is, Wikipedia defines hard core as “ the members of a group or movement who form an intransigent nucleus resistant to change” (I might add, resistant to rational judgement). Regardless, there is no doubt that the mini-reunion was a big success complete with a pre-game (warm) party at John Harvard’s Brew House on Harvard Square and a post-game buffet dinner (warmer) at Joe’s American Bar & Grill on the waterfront.


This incredible event was the work of Glenn Reed, Brent and Marjean Kimball, Dan Kenslea, Judy Geer, Mark McAleenan and our own feerless leader, Len Cross.I should note that our entire block of 50 tickets was sold out—a function of predicitions of warmer weather; and should also note that apparently Sandy Tierney and I are not hard core, since at the behest of our wives, we watched the game on cable TV. Hats off to the mini-reunion crew, you have set the bar high for next year’s class of 1975 mini “extreme” reunion.


Not much else in the mail, but I did receive a note that Tom Foley was inaugurated in September as the new president of Mount Aloysius College in Pennsylvania. Congrats, Tom.


Nanc and I wish everyone the best of holidays and a happy new year and hope our paths cross before too long. Above all else, lets hope the world gets just a little less dangerous this year—and maybe it’s not too much to also hope that our government can be just a little less dysfunctional.


—Jim Bildner, 5 Boardman Ave., Manchester, MA 01944; (617) 495-6513; jim_bildner@harvard.edu