Warren Daniel advises that Bob Pilsbury is still active playing in the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. This group, formed in 1971, specializes in New Orleans jazz. They have toured throughout the United States and Europe, produced more than 40 recordings and have an active schedule in New England this year, which can be accessed on the Internet. This fall they are performing monthly at the Sherburn Inn in Sherburn, Massachusetts. Coincidently, John Van Raalte and Joyce and I flew to Colorado Springs, Colorado, this summer. We attended our grandson’s wedding and John his granddaughter’s graduation at Colorado College, a well-considered liberal arts school featuring the block plan, which includes three-and-one-half-week, single-subject semesters (32 in total). She went to New Zealand last summer for the Blister Gear Review, which monitors the performance of ski bindings, and joined the company after her graduation. Interestingly, she feels her English major and resultant writing competence was a strong plus. Through the years I’ve seen a lack of written skills at executive levels. In addition to economic, engineering and science requirements, you can argue for the cultural benefit of a liberal arts background as a career enhancer. I need classmate readers’ help to keep these notes interesting and fun. Give me anecdotal happenings past and present covering your generation as well as your progeny and their progeny, where most of the action is these days. Contact me by phone, post and email, but no longer by teletype, which is how the away games in the 1930s of my beloved Brooklyn Dodgers were broadcast. You could tell when something major was happening because you could hear the chattering in the background. I remember taking my mom, who was an elegant lady somewhat overdressed for the occasion, by train to Grand Central Station and subway (her first) to Ebbets Field in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where we watched Cookie Lavagetto, the Bums third baseman, hit a looping, line drive past our seats along the third base line for a double that won the game. There’s a remembrance; send me a bunch!


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net