Class Note 1975
Issue
September-October 2024
We are deep into the countdown for our 50th reunion, so you had better be making those plans to trek north, or whatever direction it is for you. The dates are June 13-15, 2025. Be there or be square, as they say.
Speaking of 50 years, Tom De Lancey, who still gets back to Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, to visit family every summer, writes, “After 50 years from last contact, I recently found a couple of guys that lived next door to you (me) in Fayerweather in 1971. I have had continuous contact with Craig Stone ’76 and he finally passed me details for Doug Richmond, 102 Fayerweather.”
My roommate, Pete Castle, and I lived in 107 while our current president, Lon Cross, was just down the hall.
Tom adds, “Doug was one of my heroes. He has lived the life many of us can only dream about. He made a career out of being a member of ski patrol and now is happily retired in Bozeman, Montana. Craig tells me they named a ski run after him—not surprising. Doug tells me that now he can relax and ski only four hours per day, instead of 10 hours. When I told Doug how he was my hero, he said, ‘Well, Moe is the real hero, you should call him instead.’ ” If memory serves, Jim “Moe” Moriarty was Doug’s roommate.
While I have not had the pleasure of speaking with Jim recently, Tom reminded me that he is quite accomplished. After graduating summa cum laude (no wonder he and I did not hang out much together!), Jim joined the U.S. Foreign Service. He was posted to several nations through the years, with most of his time spent in Africa and Asia. He ended out his career as U.S. ambassador to Nepal and then Bangladesh. This summary hardly does justice to the role Jim has played in formulating many of our nation’s policies in Asia.
I also connected with Stim Harriman, who moved up from Nevada County, California, to Vashon Island in King County, Washington, in 2015. Keeping with the U.S. State Department theme, he is interpreting Japanese for the local courts and for U.S. Department of State programs. He is also working for the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington in its Small Business Resiliency Program helping Japanese-speaking owners of small businesses in Washington State navigate the bureaucracy and find other necessary resources. They have three grandchildren now, the most recent, a girl, was born six months ago, and Stim says, “She is devastatingly cute.”
“Though ’round the gridled earth they roam,
Her spell on them remains.”
Vox clamantis in Florida.
—Stephen D. Gray, P.O. Box 771918, Ocala, FL 34477; (650) 302-8739; fratergray@gmail.com
Speaking of 50 years, Tom De Lancey, who still gets back to Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, to visit family every summer, writes, “After 50 years from last contact, I recently found a couple of guys that lived next door to you (me) in Fayerweather in 1971. I have had continuous contact with Craig Stone ’76 and he finally passed me details for Doug Richmond, 102 Fayerweather.”
My roommate, Pete Castle, and I lived in 107 while our current president, Lon Cross, was just down the hall.
Tom adds, “Doug was one of my heroes. He has lived the life many of us can only dream about. He made a career out of being a member of ski patrol and now is happily retired in Bozeman, Montana. Craig tells me they named a ski run after him—not surprising. Doug tells me that now he can relax and ski only four hours per day, instead of 10 hours. When I told Doug how he was my hero, he said, ‘Well, Moe is the real hero, you should call him instead.’ ” If memory serves, Jim “Moe” Moriarty was Doug’s roommate.
While I have not had the pleasure of speaking with Jim recently, Tom reminded me that he is quite accomplished. After graduating summa cum laude (no wonder he and I did not hang out much together!), Jim joined the U.S. Foreign Service. He was posted to several nations through the years, with most of his time spent in Africa and Asia. He ended out his career as U.S. ambassador to Nepal and then Bangladesh. This summary hardly does justice to the role Jim has played in formulating many of our nation’s policies in Asia.
I also connected with Stim Harriman, who moved up from Nevada County, California, to Vashon Island in King County, Washington, in 2015. Keeping with the U.S. State Department theme, he is interpreting Japanese for the local courts and for U.S. Department of State programs. He is also working for the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington in its Small Business Resiliency Program helping Japanese-speaking owners of small businesses in Washington State navigate the bureaucracy and find other necessary resources. They have three grandchildren now, the most recent, a girl, was born six months ago, and Stim says, “She is devastatingly cute.”
“Though ’round the gridled earth they roam,
Her spell on them remains.”
Vox clamantis in Florida.
—Stephen D. Gray, P.O. Box 771918, Ocala, FL 34477; (650) 302-8739; fratergray@gmail.com