Class Note 1962

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.

’Round the girdled earth they roamed.

Pat and Gordy McKean began the year with family in Florida, followed by trips to the Yucatan, Mexico; the class cruise down the Mississippi; family visit in Nashville, Tennessee; a cruise around the Hawaiian Islands; then with family for a week on Oahu.

After a successful downsizing move to the center of Norwich, Vermont, in January, Susan and Peter Brink warmed up in Cape Town, South Africa. Other trips included a cruise to Alaska and family visits to Maine and Madison, Wisconsin.

Zaida and Peter Knight’s 2018 peregrinations from their base in Rio de Janeiro have taken them to family visits in Corvallis, Oregon; Seattle; Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California; sightseeing in Patagonia, Easter Island; meetings in Helsinki, Stockholm, Berlin, and Görelitz on the Polish-German border, and the Côte d’Azur, returning to the family cabin on Deer Island, Maine, with a side trip to Hanover for Class Officers Weekend. En route from Rio to the West Coast in December, Peter stopped by Galveston, Texas, for a five-day visit with Elizabeth and me. The Knights ended the year with a huge family gathering at Mount Bachelor, Oregon, to celebrate 50 years of marriage.

Oli Larmi flew around the world in three weeks,from Philadelphia to Copenhagen, Mumbai and Chennai, India, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles before returning to Philadelphia. Oli reports: “Special moments occurred when Indian dancers, who performed for us, invited audience participation and came to dance with me, after I caught their eye and gave them a little shoulder shimmy.”

I’ve given up trying to keep up with Arja and Alan Rapoport’s mind-bending travel itineraries, which this year included a visit for Arja’s birthday in her native Finland. His latest travelogue email, in the spirit of omnism wishing all a Merry Christmas, was posted in December from the Christian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com