1974

The weather may still be suited to the Fourth of July, but fall is just around the corner. The signs are definitely there the Yankees are headed south and pigskins are once again migrating. So it's time to dust off the desk, shake the cobwebs out of my brain, sharpen up a few pencils, and put a new shine on the old 365horsepower Smith-Corona typewriter. The '74 news goes back into print. . .

Year ten, column one —yes, it's reunion year, folks! Ten long years, with new careers, graduate degrees, an uncounted (as yet, anyway) number of wives and children, and, we hope, a lot of good times and memories along the way. Bring them with you to the class of' 74 marathon party to be run by reunion chairman Doug Lind and his able cohorts. We will have to go quite a distance to top our own fifth reunion, but I know that we can do it. Save the dates now the weekend of June 15-17, 1984. I talked to many of you during the Alumni Fund drive, and early returns indicate the potential for the biggest tenth in College history. An added bonus is that the classes of '73 and '75 will have their tenth reunions at the same time, so even more old buddies will be back in Hanover. Be there!

July 3 was the date of another extravaganza -the wedding of Chuck Rosenthal and Carolyn Diachok in Atlantic Beach, Long Island. I went along to represent the class (Chuck, alias "Rosie," was my roommate during an ill-spent sophomore year), along with two other former habitants of Wheeler Hall Bob "Kronstein" Bluestein and Lionel Wong. Also joining in the festivities were several of Chuck's buddies from high school who were our guests at the College for several highly unusual weekends during undergraduate days. For those who keep tabs on careers, Chuck has just begun a residency in radiology at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, having previously spent two years in surgery. Carolyn is a registered nurse. One other piece of news that surfaced during the reception is that Messrs. Bluestein and Wong were planning to invade Europe on or about October 1. Disguised as simple tourists, they intended to wreak havoc on London, Paris, and Rome. So, best wishes to our newlyweds, and a belated bon voyage to Bob and Lionel!

This summer has also proved quite active for your class secretary. Eileen and I traveled back to England (mostly due to the fares of People Express) during July, a month which had the British baking they claimed it was the hottest month in 324 years! By a seasoned New Yorker's standards, it was indeed hot, but not too humid. However, Britain was chock-ablock with Americans and visitors from most of the other Common Market countries. We did have a truly fabulous vacation, touring Cambridge, East Anglia, Hardy country, and across to Canterbury. I have also gotten involved in a very active community theater group, doing mostly backstage work. However, I did find time this summer to appear in two productions, playing comic roles Teddy Brewster, a nut who believes that he is Teddy Roosevelt, in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.8., in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore. It was an especially exciting year for our group, as we spent a good portion of last fall and this spring renovating a derelict building for use as a little theater.

That's about all the news for now. I hope to run into some of you folk at either the Cornell, Penn, or Yale games. In the meantime, keep those cards and letters coming to the above address. By the way, is anyone interested in an NYC.pre-reunion get-together, perhaps dinner and a show? Let me know.

Till turkey time.

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