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November-December 2025

Class Note 1951. I open with a thank you to all of you who have cheerfully provided news—the life blood of the column and an important key to the connectedness that we all still feel.
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September-October 2025

A few numbers: More than 400 different classmates have been highlighted in these 70-plus columns, more than the number of living classmates when I began reporting (some mentions are of deceased classmates) and 80 percent of the 546 men who graduat

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July-August 2025

Jean and I live two blocks from the Northwestern University campus and the same distance from Lake Michigan (both great walking and exploring territories).
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May-June 2025

A phone call from Art Worden in Florida is always a day-brightener. Art has turned his back on Buffalo, New York, winters and now spends most of the year in Fort Pierce, Florida, living in a condo with one of his daughters.
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March-April 2025

We report with sadness the death of Buck Scott’s wife, Mary. Buck was our first class president following graduation in 1951 and Mary was his indispensable helper.
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January-February 2025

Our classmate Haviland Smith, a retired CIA officer and longtime newspaper columnist, died in June.
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November-December 2024

Joe Spound phoned from his senior living complex in Needham, Massachusetts; it sounds very similar to Jean and my Evanston, Illinois, living accommodations.
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September-October 2024

Quite a few of us “attended” Jack Giegerich’s memorial service in Radnor, Pennsylvania, via Zoom.
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July-August 2024

A recent phone visit with Bob Robinson (Lansdowne, Pennsylvania) was a nice reminder that for many of us these are still interesting, satisfying, fun times.
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May-June 2024

Jean and I are among the very lucky oldsters. We enjoy time with our growing family—we will welcome two more great-grandchildren in 2024. Our senior living community, the Mather, is full of interesting, fun, thoughtful old folks.
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March - April 2024

Paul Orth is the latest published author among our ’51 classmates. He has written Adventures in Court, true stories based on fascinating court cases.
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