1963

Among those checking in with a reasonably good excuse for not attending our 20th reunion this June was Chaplain Dave Goodwillie, the fighting Unitarian, who has moved from Ft. Benning, Ga., to Karlsruhe, West Germany, with the 18th Engineer Brigade.

Dave reports that he accomplished the first (of five) parachute jumps on his 40th birthday. "Being at least 20 years older than anybody else in my class made it kind of fun," Dave reports. "I was the gray eminence, the class antique, but it made my survival all the sweeter." Dave says it all reminded him of the time he and his roommate talked each other into making a jump sophomore year. "It's reassuring to know that I can be as irresponsible at mid-life as I was then," he reports.

And to think he did it with the U.S. government's approval this time! I just wonder how many other members of the class are all that willing to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft, for fun or profit.

Steve Lewinstein is now president of UST Investment Advisors, a subsidiary of UST Corporation, a Boston-based investment opportunities corporation. Steve is based in Providence, R.I.

Pete Jennings is still in Jakarta, where he is vice president for Fluor Eastern Inc., which carries out engineering and construction projects in Southeast Asia. Pete says that he gets to make lots of "interesting (?) [sic] stops in India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam." Still, he regards it as "better than freezing in the U. 5.," and notes that "the windsurfing in Bali is superb. I guess, as the French have tried to teach us, there's just no accounting for taste.

Chris Harvey and his wife are expecting their first baby this spring, and there's a good chance that the entire Harvey clan will be on hand for the reunion. That's Dr. Chris, of course. Chris is president-elect of the county medical association in their area - the Harveys live in Lutherville, Md. - and has also been a representative to the state medical and radiological society.

Nor is Dr. Chris our lone radiologist. If anyone breaks a leg in the reunion distance run, Dr. Dick Ahlstrand will also be on hand to interpret the x-rays. He and his wife and the three little Ahlstrands (ages 12, 11, and nine) will all be coming in from Wichita, Kans., where Dick has been practicing, and teaching. He is an assistant clinical professor of radiology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

For those who may want to stop off in New York for a meal on their way up for reunion (or any other time, for that matter) Blake Franklin and Bill Gifford have opened a new restaurant called the Tenth Street Cafe, which is located, as luck would have it, on Tenth Steet (189 West Tenth, down in the Village, to be exact). They sold The Woods, their earlier restaurant venture, which had drawn rave reviews from Mimi Sheraton of the Times and others. There's no reason to believe that their new place will be any less a treat for the senses.

Dick Enholm is now one of the people behind those Foster Grants. He's just joined the famous maker of sunglasses as vice president for marketing after eight years at American Optical Corporation, where most recently he had been director of international marketing. Dick, wife Sue, and son Greg, five, live in Sturbridge, Mass.

We close with a modest note received from Tom Berger, who is on the English faculty at St. Lawrence University. Tom reports that I used to be a fairly interesting person. Then I bought a wood stove and took up running.

Those things will happen.

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