1961

This fall's mini-reunion, October 2-4, will be substantially different from our past few minireunions. Rather than build the weekend around a White River Junction motel, we're going to a nearby resort, The Bonnie Oaks, in Fairlee, Vt. That will give us the chance to have a golf and/or tennis tournament on Friday, perhaps a picnic by the lake, and still get into Hanover for the key things, like the Holy Cross football game on Saturday.

We'll also have what President GerryKaminsky calls a "very important class meeting" on Saturday to lay final plans for our 20th reunion, which will be held in conjunction with the classes of 1962 and 1963 on June 1820, 1982. Save those dates as well, so we can get a substantial proportion of our class back.

For the mini-reunion, we're planning a Saturday-night cocktail party and dinner and a Sunday brunch. It's the same weekend when Mike Kirst and Dick Beattie are serving as our second set of 1961 Fellows, so perhaps they'll take some time to bring us up to date on their very busy careers. Bill Haynsworth is serving as chairman, again. If you have suggestions, you can reach him at 39 Inverness Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 02181, or call him at 617-237-1665.

Planning ahead has begun for activities during reunion. One thing's almost certain: We'll have some sort of formal run for the three classes, perhaps a 10,000-meter race (6.2 miles). Gerry reports we have at least three marathoners, Jerry Foote, Dick Sax, and Elliott Weiss. If there are more, let me know. (Personally, I'm a jogger, not a runner, and my longest race is a half-marathon.)

Skip Bean, who represented the class at some of the early reunion planning meetings, is associate principal of the high school in what's known as the Dresden School District, which includes Hanover. Every day, just about, he sees Bill Cogswell and Ford Daley, who are fellow faculty members. Bill's a math teacher and Ford is a science teacher and alternative education director.

While in Hanover for the Class Officers Weekend, we got an up-to-date list of the class, which suggests that perhaps a charter jetliner is in order for reunion. The largest single group of our classmates (96) is in California, followed by New York (68), Massachusetts (58), Connecticut (45), Pennsylvania (32), New Jersey (31), Illinois (26), Ohio (21), and Minnesota (20). New Hampshire and Vermont are tied for tenth with 18 apiece. But a substantial percentage of our class is now west of the Mississippi.

Gregg Millett writes that he's just moved from Nicaragua to East Nassau, N.Y. "For the last ten years, my wife Elizabeth and I have taught and farmed in Central America, mostly in Nicaragua. We still work there in some small projects trying to make contributions toward positive change, but the anti-Yankee, militaristic climate, plus the real difficulty of making a subsistance living, forced us to at last take a breather, if not to reorient our lives."

Cartter Frierson, who will be our reunion giving chairman, writes, "My major preoccupation in April through June of this year should also help prepare me for the reunion challenge; I am serving as general chairman of a $2.5million campaign for the Girls' Preparatory School here in Chattanooga, raising $1.5 million for a library and $1 million for endowment to increase teachers' salaries."

Cartter goes on to describe how he's using computers to plan and execute the campaign. He notes that he and Bob Hargraves are perhaps the most computer-oriented in the class. "However, I might pass on to you the fact that Ron Wybranowski has formed his own company, Wybranowski and Associates, Inc., which is off to a roaring start in the field of software development. . . . Dave Skuce tells me that Bill Bull is an engineer at Apple Computers, Inc. in Cupertino, Calif. How many classmates are now actively employed in computer/information industries?" Indeed. Write and let me know if you are.

We're planning, under Frank Greenberg's leadership, to publish a book for the reunion describing what each of us is doing 20 years out. One key source of information could be the questionnaires you've all gotten recently from the Alumni Records Office. We may find that a thoroughly completed questionnaire provides all the information we need (and of course, far more than is needed for the alumni directory.) So please get them in.

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