Class Note 1975

I’m happy to say the news keeps pouring in. Another column or two and I think we can call it a trend. In any event, it’s great to hear from so many classmates. Political pundits might suggest that this increase in traffic is because, as we approach our 60s, we’re looking to dust up our class legacies. I’m just delighted that folks are writing.


Ron Cima checked in with an update. With spring approaching Ron and Rita are getting ready to re-open their lake house in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. More importantly, in words I hear frequently these days, “the kids keep getting older, but we don’t.” Ron’s youngest, Katherine, a class of ’14 at Dartmouth, moves in to Ron’s old dorm, New Hamp, this spring, and on the same floor where Ron lived 40 years ago. Katherine is an environmental studies major/international relations minor and just completed an internship with the Sierra Club. Ron’s oldest daughter Caroline ’10 starts Columbia Law School in the fall and in Ron’s words “ assures no possibility of retirement for Rita and me in the foreseeable future.” Hope Caroline will look up Lizzie Bildner ’08, who starts Columbia Business School in January. 


Our own class president, Lon Cross, sent me a class save the date for our 40th reunion, which will be held June 12-15, 2014. Reunion co-chairs Dave Cook and Tom Denison are already in the advanced planning phase and are always looking for reunion committee volunteers. E-mail them directly if you want to join the committee.


And Bill Cahill checked in as well. Bill and Wendy are still living the life—skiing actively in the winter (they’re now lifetime members of the famous Franconia Ski Club, working races on weekends) and living in their great house on the lake just outside of Hanover. Wendy works for the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and Bill continues his active healthcare consulting firm helping clients navigate through the many challenges facing the sector in this new regulatory environment. More importantly, his son Pete and new wife Ana are doing well and soon will be moving to Burlington, Vermont, and their daughter Meaghan is truly living the dream in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as Billy says, “teaching skiing, coaching the racing team and working in the hospitality business.” Bill is our new class Alumni Council representative, taking over for Chris Nice, and this summer Bill is holding class office hours in the best space on campus—he works the info booth on the Green one afternoon a week. 


Well that’s it for now. Keep the news coming. All best.


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