1970

I hope that all of you are making plans for the upcoming reunion in Hanover. Undoubtedly, you are all so busy making arrangements and counting the days until we all get together that almost none of you had time to let me know what you are doing. The other explanation is that you are just saving up all that good news to tell at the reunion and are not divulging any of the details in advance. For the few of you who will not be at the reunion and will not have a chance to describe the joys and woes of job, family, and friends with your classmates in person, how about sending in the news as soon as possible so that it can be printed prior to the last column for this year.

I do have word that our classmate, John P. Morse, has received a master of science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Our classmate entered the Navy in June 1970 and has had a fascinating time in his naval career since then, having obtained the rank of commander. The Naval Postgraduate School is the only such naval institution in the world offering classes of study in a variety of scientific, management, and engineering fields.

Our classmate Richard Kenney has been honored once again. The Academy of American Poets at its 51st anniversary annual meeting announced that Richard was one of three younger poets selected by the Academy Chancellors for the Peter LB. Lavan Younger Poet Awards. You will recall that our classmate's first book, The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, was the Yale Series of Younger Poets selection for 1983. I understand that his second collection, Orrery, has just been released by Atheneum. Our classmate was praised as having "a wonderfully fertile imagination in which exuberance and knowledge go hand in hand."

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