Summer has been glorious in Minnesota. Too much water early, which was hard on our farmers, but generally free of the oppressive heat the rest of the country experienced.
This month, we have interesting news from non-retirees, as well as doings in Washington, D.C. But first, a call to action: The 55th reunion is Sunday, June 14, through Wednesday, June 17, 2020.
Greetings, classmates. I write from the polar vortexed North, where staying indoors with a good book and perhaps a glass of cheer is the best idea. For now.
Greetings. I am writing during the holiday season, when cheer is good, families are gathered, and news for the column is usually scarce. Not this year.
Ahhh, summer. Vacations, family fun, vicarious pleasures as grandkids do all the things good, bad, and hilarious we were prone to do back when. So, brace yourselves, lads. Mini’s coming up October 11-14, about the time this mag hits your mailbox.
Mike Gonnerman reports the May monthly Hanover micro-mini reunion was “an outstanding breakfast meeting. There were eight from 1965 and four from the class of 1964.
Ah, spring. As I write this, robins are chirping outside my Minnesota window, no doubt irritated if not desperate because those delectable worms are napping under 15 inches of snow.
This will be a bittersweet column. We have word of the passing on of Andrew Wells Lewis and Art Rainey since last we spoke. Steve Waterhouse left us in December.