1973

Captain's,log: 4 April, 2000 hours. Dateline: Stapleton International Airport. Skies overcast, winds N at 15 knots. (The skiing was superb!)

Due to a rather extensive column last month, the Captain's reserving plenty of future space for reunion news - soon to come. Get in gear, and plan to be with the more than 250 classmates who've already indicated an interest to attend. Major orders of business will include, among other items, election of a new slate of class and executive committee members. Should you wish to nominate either yourself or a deserving friend of '73, please send the name(s) along to Wayne Davis.

No news is bad news. So, we've got news. But there's no rhyme nor reason to its organization. Please bear with me ... the altitude must be affecting my brain cells.

Lovers of custard pies, baked ham, and real baked beans, who travel from Thetford to the old Fairlee Diner to fill their stomachs without emptying their purses, can soon save some gas. On Memorial Day, or thereabouts, pies, ham, and baked beans will travel to East Thetford, where Maurice Roberts and family plan to open a new restaurant fashioned after the Fairlee Diner, from the menu down to the pine booths. Couldn't have happened at a more propitious time, with all the reunion hoopla.

Bruce Kimball recently received a Reynolds Scholarship, and has plans to study Buddhist and Shinto sects in Japan. ... Sam Porter has been elected an assistant secretary in Manufacturers Hanover Trust's national division - Great Lakes district. He will represent the bank in Wisconsin and Illinois. ... Don Reynolds has been named an instructor of international banking by the Bridgeport Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. ... Littleknown fact: Garson Fields, Everett Cook, and Rick Ruthier recently competed in the New York Marathon before a peanut gallery of Dave Wilson, Dick Berlin, and several more. Seems there's lots of running going on among '73ers. ... Alex Rodzianko and wife Inna are happy to report that they and their two children, Andrei and Lisa, are alive and well and living a wonderful life together in the D.C. area. Alex most recently served as an interpreter at the SALT talks in Geneva.

That's all the news that's fit to print, save parting words of thanks to all of you who, over the past five years, have provided me with stimulating and provocative news ("whereabouts," as we secretaries write). Without your input, there would have undoubtedly been many a blank spot under the '73 head. Looks like next month could very well be the last for the oF salty dog. Tune in. Until that time, this is Cap'n Quigs saying, "Keep a taut ship."

Operation '73 Sail in '78

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