Class Notes
It has been quite a summer in the Big Apple. A week of near 100 degrees in July caused some phone lines to go down, ours included. Verizon reports the copper cables now 80 years old are wearing out. Then rain.
The deadlines for Class Notes seem to get ever closer together. We wait patiently to hear from you so we can spread your word to the rest of the class.
Seventieth reunion: We will be guests of the College in a few weeks.
Many of your classmates have signed up. We hope all will sign up now that you have seen the list in our recent newsletter.
As we write this summer has finally come. The WW II book is in its final stages, heading to the printer early July. Advance copies are due mid-September. When you read this all of you will have received an advance letter and order form.
This writing finds us almost speechless. We are three weeks from the 70th reunion! So far we have a little more than 40 returning. The mix is actual alumni, spouses, widows and children. We will be reuning with 1939 and 1947.
When you read this some of you may be awaiting your first winter snowstorm.
The winter doldrums have settled in. We were spoiled in Manhattan in 2012 by having had a warm winter, but 2013 has provided every weather phenomena that 2012 missed. We start with a Hurricane Sandy in the fall of 2012.
Today is the day before the last day of February—this is leap year.
Here we are living through what seems like the longest winter in history. Snow 60 inches here in New York. Cold that just won’t go away. The groundhog promised an early spring. So much for that tradition.
We are still filled with the memories of the 70th while sugar plum fairies dance in our heads. Happy New Year to all.
Happy 2012. By the time this reaches you it will be well into the new year.
All of you will be impressed to learn that your classmate Jon Mendes, age 90, was the oldest participant in the 2010 Annual New York Marathon. And he finished.