Class Note 1978
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
The countdown is on. Just four months until “40th Reunion: Carpe D’78.” Many classmates want to see you there. Have you registered yet?
Our class is working to raise one million dollars to finance and build a bunkhouse at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Moosilauke was an important part of the first-year experience for most of us, and we hope that rebuilding the lodge and bunkhouses will engage a large portion of our class. The target is 78-percent participation. We also hope to collect stories or short anecdotes about your experiences at Moosilauke that we can share at the reunion next June. Some of these stories will be filmed in a series of interviews with classmates. If you have stories you would like to share, or if you would like to nominate someone for an interview, please send your stories and nominations to the following email address: d78bunkhouse@gmail.com.
After many years as a Wall Street Journal executive and media investor, Jim Friedlich has taken over as CEO of the Institute for Journalism in New Media in Philadelphia. The institute is dedicated to the future of journalism and is also now the owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jim told the Inquirer that the main reason he took the job “is a passion for journalism and its future. I’m quite optimistic about the future of journalism, provided that we all execute well.” Jim lives with his wife, Melissa Stern, an artist, and their 22-year-old son, Max, a senior at Wesleyan. The family splits its time between their home, a loft space in New York City, and a working farm in Woodstock, New York. He is in regular touch with Ross Eatman, Gordon Smith and Sen. Rob Portman.
As Damon Runyon said, “He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted.” In that spirit I want to let you know that I have a new book just out. Rivals Unto Death is a dual biography (pardon the pun) of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Nobody else has done anything on this topic recently, right? At just over 200 pages, it offers an accessible and, I hope, entertaining look at their 30-year rivalry for people turned onto the story by all the Hamilton hoopla. I am very excited that bestselling nonfiction author Hamilton Sides, one of my favorites (In the Kingdom of Ice, Hellhound on his Trail,) has offered some lavish praise for the book: “In Beyer’s fine hands, the long feud between Burr and Hamilton seems part opera buffa, part Greek tragedy. As the pages keep turning, we feel ourselves pulled along on a collision course—one that still has powerful resonance today.” And it also features sex and violence! Please buy lots of copies.
Send news! And register for reunion!
—Rick Beyer, 34 Outlook Drive, Lexington, MA 02421; rick@rickbeyer.net
Our class is working to raise one million dollars to finance and build a bunkhouse at Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Moosilauke was an important part of the first-year experience for most of us, and we hope that rebuilding the lodge and bunkhouses will engage a large portion of our class. The target is 78-percent participation. We also hope to collect stories or short anecdotes about your experiences at Moosilauke that we can share at the reunion next June. Some of these stories will be filmed in a series of interviews with classmates. If you have stories you would like to share, or if you would like to nominate someone for an interview, please send your stories and nominations to the following email address: d78bunkhouse@gmail.com.
After many years as a Wall Street Journal executive and media investor, Jim Friedlich has taken over as CEO of the Institute for Journalism in New Media in Philadelphia. The institute is dedicated to the future of journalism and is also now the owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jim told the Inquirer that the main reason he took the job “is a passion for journalism and its future. I’m quite optimistic about the future of journalism, provided that we all execute well.” Jim lives with his wife, Melissa Stern, an artist, and their 22-year-old son, Max, a senior at Wesleyan. The family splits its time between their home, a loft space in New York City, and a working farm in Woodstock, New York. He is in regular touch with Ross Eatman, Gordon Smith and Sen. Rob Portman.
As Damon Runyon said, “He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted.” In that spirit I want to let you know that I have a new book just out. Rivals Unto Death is a dual biography (pardon the pun) of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Nobody else has done anything on this topic recently, right? At just over 200 pages, it offers an accessible and, I hope, entertaining look at their 30-year rivalry for people turned onto the story by all the Hamilton hoopla. I am very excited that bestselling nonfiction author Hamilton Sides, one of my favorites (In the Kingdom of Ice, Hellhound on his Trail,) has offered some lavish praise for the book: “In Beyer’s fine hands, the long feud between Burr and Hamilton seems part opera buffa, part Greek tragedy. As the pages keep turning, we feel ourselves pulled along on a collision course—one that still has powerful resonance today.” And it also features sex and violence! Please buy lots of copies.
Send news! And register for reunion!
—Rick Beyer, 34 Outlook Drive, Lexington, MA 02421; rick@rickbeyer.net