Class Note 1965
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May - Jun 2017
Greetings from balmy Minnesota. It has been a warm winter and we have been realizing how much we miss bragging about the bone-chilling cold we tough denizens of the far north survive. Mike Gonnerman reports the weather has been more acceptably inclement in Hanover. “After two snowfalls in early February,” he says, “we had about 16 inches of snow on the ground for Winter Carnival, with normal (below freezing) temperatures. On Friday, February 10, the undergraduate polar bear swimmers swam in Occom Pond when the temperature reached a high of 16. On Saturday it was 22 for the Winter Carnival exhibits on the Green (a skating rink, ice sculptures and a 4-foot-high snow dragon) and the town’s Occom Pond celebration.” Sadly, temperatures have since increased to the 50s and everything is starting to melt, Mike notes.
Brad Dewey writes that he retired from his executive search practice three years ago and is living on a hill above Lake Geneva, Switzerland. When he is not in motion, that is. Working now on his bucket list, he gives a whole new meaning to peripatetic. His long-distance motorcycle touring trips have included Argentina, Bolivia, Machu Picchu and Peru and northern Chile in 2012, then a three-month tour of the United States and British Columbia (2013). In 2014 he traveled London to Bangkok via Istanbul, the Silk Road network in the ’Stans, China, Laos and the Golden Triangle and the Thai-Myanmar border. Last summer, he visited the Baltic via Denmark, the coast of Norway and the North Cape, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic. He asks, “Anyone interested in joining me this summer to tour the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria?” He offers an attached apartment “in case any of you are planning to visit Geneva and are looking for a base.” Wish I’d known last year….
Steve Fowler is on a journey of a different sort, surely as difficult as Brad’s, but closer to home. He says, “Despite my lifelong love of all kinds of music, I have never mastered an instrument, so it is now or never. I am trying to see whether I can learn enough about reading music and the double bass to play a lick here and there. We have a full-size (rental) bass set up in the living room, where it is certainly a conversation piece, if nothing else.”
By the time this hits your mailbox, CarniVail will be over and Steve Waterhouse will have a chance to relax a bit. More on that next column.
Meanwhile, let me know what you’re reading, where you’re traveling, what you’re up to. Musings, facts and figures, ruminations, deep insight—I need grist, folks!
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net
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Brad Dewey writes that he retired from his executive search practice three years ago and is living on a hill above Lake Geneva, Switzerland. When he is not in motion, that is. Working now on his bucket list, he gives a whole new meaning to peripatetic. His long-distance motorcycle touring trips have included Argentina, Bolivia, Machu Picchu and Peru and northern Chile in 2012, then a three-month tour of the United States and British Columbia (2013). In 2014 he traveled London to Bangkok via Istanbul, the Silk Road network in the ’Stans, China, Laos and the Golden Triangle and the Thai-Myanmar border. Last summer, he visited the Baltic via Denmark, the coast of Norway and the North Cape, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic. He asks, “Anyone interested in joining me this summer to tour the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria?” He offers an attached apartment “in case any of you are planning to visit Geneva and are looking for a base.” Wish I’d known last year….
Steve Fowler is on a journey of a different sort, surely as difficult as Brad’s, but closer to home. He says, “Despite my lifelong love of all kinds of music, I have never mastered an instrument, so it is now or never. I am trying to see whether I can learn enough about reading music and the double bass to play a lick here and there. We have a full-size (rental) bass set up in the living room, where it is certainly a conversation piece, if nothing else.”
By the time this hits your mailbox, CarniVail will be over and Steve Waterhouse will have a chance to relax a bit. More on that next column.
Meanwhile, let me know what you’re reading, where you’re traveling, what you’re up to. Musings, facts and figures, ruminations, deep insight—I need grist, folks!
—John Rogers, 6051 Laurel Ave., #310, Golden Valley, MN 55416; (763) 568-7501; johnbairdrogers@comcast.net