The weather has been like no other fall and Christmas that we can remember. Imagine 75 degrees on Christmas Eve or even 65 degrees on Christmas. What has Mother Nature in store for us for the next few weeks?

We were given an interesting question to put in this column. Think back, what great memory stands out from your years in college? First thought for me, beating Yale! Not academic but thrilling. What about you? Let us know for the next column.

Jon Mendes did it again, entered the 2015 New York Marathon and completed a little more than 13 miles of it. Give Jon a rouse!

We can always count on Bob Gale and Chuck Herberger. From Chuck we have the following poem, “A Non Political Protest.”

Yes, Herberger is my name.

It’s not aristocratic.

Nor is it proletarian.

Bourgeois it is, and will remain.

It’s politics that puts us in a class.

If one’s a friend we never ask

About his income or his power.

We see the person not the mass.

Class does not distinguish me or you.

Mass movements have in common only hate.

The best in each is smothered in the mob.

Class is a cloud the individual shines through.

Not a gauge of what in each of us is true.”

Bob Gale writes about his latest book on the short stories of Dorothy Parker. He has just published a book on Nathanael West and is hard at work on a book about Frank Norris. He also sends news of his family, which will appear in the newsletter.

In closing, the class sends its condolences to the families of William Clark, Russell Hartranft, Wayne Martz and Andrew Morgan, all active participants in alumni activities.

—Leo F. Caproni Jr., 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York City, New York 10021; (212) 988-6012; (212) 988-6715 (fax); caproni@aol.com