Greetings, fellow ’70s. To our Boston-area brethren, I trust that this past winter’s record snowfall has finally receded from your lawns (and your memories). One classmate missing most of the meteorological fun in New England is Scott Holland, erstwhile steward of this column. Scott sent me a lengthy missive in mid-January on the eve of his annual pilgrimage to Southeast Asia. After years vacationing in Thailand, in 2014 he added Vietnam to his itinerary and this year will extend his stay to include Cambodia. I still have trouble wrapping my mind around the idea that people actually pay money to visit places most of us would have done almost anything (and some of us did) to avoid 45 years ago. More details of Scott’s adventures will appear in an upcoming edition of our class newsletter.


Jim Nachtwey continues to earn recognition for his work as a photojournalist. In February he received a lifetime achievement award for creative excellence at the National Magazine Awards annual dinner in New York. In accepting the award Jim described the work he and his peers do as “moving through the real world in real time, to tell the stories of what happens to people, one by one, at the sharp end of history. We navigate dangers, endure hardships and get our hearts broken by what we witness, over and over again, because we believe that people’s opinions matter—that our society cannot function properly without the information we provide and without the stories we tell.”


Finally, we have received notice of the passing of classmate Bill Glanz in San Diego on June 14, 2014.


—Bill Wilson, 304 Highlands Bluffs Drive, Cary, NC 27518; wilson8689@aol.com