I hope my former fellow Easterners will have dug out by this printing and will be enjoying a pleasant spring. It was really chilly here in the Bay Area in February; I believe it dipped into the 40s. This is just another way of reminding people that we will be holding a class mini-reunion on the coast in October. A recent note from Andy Halliday indicates that he is highly likely to attend. “I am about 30 minutes from Costanoa, so will be there for sure. Looking forward to seeing others in my neck of the woods.” Lon Cross had better show up as well.


In the email bag I also was fortunate enough to hear from another transplant. Greg Northcraft says, “I am currently at the University of Illinois business school, but desperately planning a very soon relocation to Carmel, California. I have looked very seriously at houses in Ocean Colony [secretary’s note: This is where Eliza and I reside]. The course options in Carmel and Monterey are better, but it is hard to beat Half Moon Bay’s combination of being on the coast but proximal to the San Francisco airport.” I don’t think Greg is referring to the rigorous course load either.


From the plains of Hanover at Winter Carnival comes this first-hand report from Michael Garr, “Jeanne and I truly enjoyed our sojourn back to Hanover last weekend. We were incentivized by free Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble tickets. I am very proud of our class for sponsoring the group. Seeing these non-music majors having the time of their lives blasting classic Big Band charts gave me as much of a thrill as our first run-through of a Nestico arrangement of ‘Satin Doll’ when Mike Pope ’78 and I revived the group winter of 1975 in prep for Barbary Coast at the Top of the Hop at Winter Carnival. Don Gringas is still directing the group after 40 years, and this was the 39th Winter Carnival concert since then. This music still ‘sends’ me, and the Coast was the greatest band I ever played with. Well, Bobby and the Corvairs might be up there as well. Our best to all!”


Just a brief note from Scott Mosenthal, who reports after his visit to Jacksonville, Florida, that Andy Oldenberg is doing well. I recalled to Scott that my dad had lived in Jacksonville and Andy had performed surgery on him. My father got quite the chuckle watching a couple of classmates catch up at the foot of his bed after having his organs knocked about by one of them.


I include one final note from the class Facebook page. Tom Thompson added several pictures from the fall of 1973 that truly captured the spirit of the class and resulted in a few choice rejoinders. You really should sign up so you do not miss this stuff; it is priceless. We are approaching 100 classmates hooked up on the page. Oh, and don’t forget your class dues and the Alumni Fund.


—Steve Gray, P.O. Box 296, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019; (650) 302-8739; fratergray@gmail.com