Since our class 50th birthday celebration in Washington, D.C., we have celebrated our birthday year together every five years. We will have a class 80th birthday celebration in San Antonio, Texas, from April 26 to 30, 2020.
Mark your calendars: The 2019 mini-reunion in Hanover is scheduled for the weekend of October 4-6. Our 80th birthday celebration will take place in spring (late April-early May) 2020. San Antonio, Texas, is being considered as first choice.
The bon temps did indeed rouler as 66 classmates, spouses, and friends, “rolled down” the Mighty Mississippi from Memphis, Tennessee, to New Orleans on the paddlewheel steamboat American Queen the last week in April.
I’m delightedto receive news from our favorite screenwriter and novelist, Steve Geller, who is“still teaching Shakespeare, satire, and the personal essay at Savannah College of Art and Design and writing novels daily” (
Richard “Rich” Dojny writes from retirement in Maine, where he reconnects with Bill Carpenter, Dick Maynard and other “Mainiacs” at Peter Knight’s annual micro-reunion on Deer Isle, Maine.
Thanks to Mike Schaefer, Heide Bruegmann and Irwin Kramer for their superb organization of the annual class mini-reunion during Homecoming week in October, attended by 26 classmates plus spouses.