1964

In August I received a letter from Os Skinner, secretary of the class of 1928. He prefaced his news with one of the great examples of understatement: "Many alumni find that they are too busy or too modest to send news to their class secretary." Since modesty is a virtue I haven't encountered in quite some time, I wish you guys would free up some time to send in some news of what's going on out there.

Os writes that Scott Skinner is presently Vermont's director of the American Civil Liberties Union with his office in Montpelier. He and his wife, Mary, met at Columbia Law School. Mary has her law office in Montpelier and is serving her third term in the Vermont Senate, where she is chair of the judiciary committee. They have two sons, seven and,five.

Ken Kuroda called the Skinners from Tokyo. Two years ago, Ken joined the American Express Company as a project manager in the card division.

Update on Whit Foster: he has now settled in Washington, D.C., after traveling the world with the Peace Corps, international development, and then for the World Bank to fun places like Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Democratic Yemen, Djibouti, Sudan, and Rwanda. Daughter Amanda was born in July when some of us are contemplating the prospect of soon becoming grandfathers. I know I'm too old for those 2 a.m. feedings.

Also traveling quite a bit these days is Carlos Ballantyne, who apparently retired from the data communications consulting business and traveled to India and Nepal several times. Presently he is employed with the Higgins Real Estate Company in Piermont, N.Y.

I was sorry to have missed Tom Illick when he was in Boston last April to visit his daughter, a junior at UMass doing an internship in Cambridge.

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