Heartfelt greetings from the inside of my home, where I am spending far too much time due to Covid-19.
Articles tagged with '20200701'
July-August 2020
As I write this Class Note, our country and the world are in the midst of the worst pandemic of our lifetime. I hope that you and your family are safe and well. The pandemic has profoundly impacted our lives and the College.
Well, Covid-19 is still with us, and Patti and I are still ensconced in Boca Raton, Florida, following state shelter-in-place regulations, which, beginning this week (end of April), will begin to be eased.
Well, this has been quite a challenging few months. While I have been sitting at home, putting the finishing touches on my attempt to create the world’s largest ball of twine, our class executive committee has been quite busy.
When I started to write this, I was asking fellow ’89s what were two words that would describe Summer Carnival, but the coronavirus epidemic hit and suddenly that seemed less important.
We asked classmates for personal stories about pandemic self-isolation and quarantine.
A rare delight of Covid-19 is the daily email by Coleman Colla from his Los Angeles home to classmates and friends (colemancolla@gmail.com). The following is a sampling.
Our 50th reunion, like our spring term in 1970, is a bust. By now reunion refunds have arrived and hotel reservations have been canceled. Hicks Morgan and his team are retuning plans for our 51st reunion next summer.
Hello, ’74s. I hope you are all safe and socially conscious as we endure the Covid-19 pandemic. Here in New England we’ve been hit pretty hard. Most of my work is in Massachusetts, which is third after New York and New Jersey.
Friends, I’m not even sure what is appropriate to write this month. We all are in the midst of unique times and, while many of us are relatively fortunate, I’m sure others are less so.
