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January-February 2022

During Covid and beyond we semi-retirees have struggled to keep ourselves entertained. I’ve been researching movies online, focusing on books’ various adaptations to cinema.
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November-December 2021

This August I had the pleasure of spending a weekend in Bar Harbor, Maine, with Lauri Livesey Sanduski and her husband, Jim. Lauri and I were together on the same freshman trip, when we quickly bonded.
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September-October 2021

Jeff Citrin and his wife, Rona, moved from their longtime home in Greenwich, Connecticut, to a new house they built in Aspen, Colorado, a couple of years ago.
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July-August 2021

The pandemic has brought us a year of radical change. Some of us have lost loved ones. David May reports that his parents died, but he couldn’t be there because of Covid.
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May-June 2021

This was supposed to be our last column before our rescheduled 40th reunion. Alas, Covid-19 spoiled our plans.
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March-April 2021

You should know by now that our class has new co-presidents, Joe Mannes and Cathy McGrath. Joe is the president of Samco Capital Markets in Dallas, where he has worked in a variety of capacities since 2001.
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January-February 2021

As I take my first stab at Class Notes, it occurs to me that so much has changed since the Covid distancing began.
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November-December 2020

The award-winning class of 1980 continues its proud tradition of achievement giving to the college.
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September-October 2020

A quarantine is like college: no haircuts, no dentist, no church, no visits to parents, but flexible schedules and too much drinking. The word quarantine, as we all now know, derives from the Italian word for 40.
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July-August 2020

Mary Ann McDonald Carolan directs Italian studies at Fairfield University. She was scheduled to be in Italy three times spring semester. When those plans were canceled, she noted how much she was looking forward to reunion.
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May-June 2020

Ten:The math is easy for alums in classes that are multiples of 10. “How long since you graduated?” is a no-brainer for us ’80s.
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March-April 2020

We have wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. But on June 18, we can cross the River Connecticut and return to the promised land. In part, reunions are about remembering who we were.