What are you doing, reading this class column? The news is stale. You should be having the time of your life at our reunion right now. Put down the magazine, go to the tent, walk up to a circle of old friends and engage in old-fashioned conversation!


French Hall may soon need to add a subscript to its name: “Home of Tennis Champions.” French freshman floormates Barksdale Penick and John Grim recently teamed up to win the member-guest doubles championship at Barky’s club, the Washington Golf and Country Club in Arlington, Virginia. The victory capped a 15-year quest by Barky, John, and third man Charlie Brown to bring the club title home to where it rightly belongs: our class. By all accounts Barky had one of those great days people will always remember: His serve was crisp, his volleys pinpoint and his ground strokes masterful. Few were in attendance but years from now, many will claim to have been. After several years of exits in the early rounds, the win by Team Barky was so unexpected that club members have added shaking their heads to the more customary habit of shaking their martinis.


After years of fighting the pharmaceutical industry’s attempt to gain immunity through the doctrine of federal preemption, Lanny Vickery played a prominent role in two recent landmark decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court. Apparently, the court agreed with just about everything Lanny wrote, with the possible exception of Judge Samuel Alito, who was seen mouthing the words, “That’s not true,” while reading Lanny’s briefs.


—Frank Fesnak, 111 Arbor Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; (610) 581-8889; ffesnak@yahoo.com; Paul Elmlinger, 1111 Park Ave., #2A, New York, NY 10128; pelmlin@frk.com