1988

Just in case the San Francisco Giants are in the World Series as you read this (it's a bit of a gamble; as I write this, they're still in first place, three and a half games ahead of Houston in the NL West), you might want to look for MikeRemlinger in the bullpen. Rem was called up to the Phoenix Firebirds, the Giants' AAA ballclub, in July and he was hoping to get a shot at The Show when the major league rosters expanded to 40 players. He's had a mixed bag of outcomes on the mound of late, but the encouraging thing is he's fully recovered from a shoulder problem that had hampered him last year.

Hopefully the fall season has put you in a charitable mood, because it's time to pay vour $l0 class dues. One thing that may not be clear to you is that class dues are a completely separate entity from College-held Alumni Fund gifts; any and all moneys given as class dues go directly into the treasury of our class. While you may feel you have reasons for not giving to the College, giving to your class shouldn't even be in question.

Our sawy treasurer, Bill Keating, is doing his best to make the class of 1988 financially sound; he's got our nest egg invested and earning five percent interest in some sort of money market deal I can't even pretend to understand. But if Bill, who works day and night for The Blackstone Group on Park Avenue in New York, says it's good, I believe him.

That, however, doesn't mean you can relax and not send your $l0. The need for dues becomes salient in less than two years, when we get our first bill for subscriptions to the magazine you now hold in your hands. It costs nine bucks and some change for a subscription (so it's around $l0,000 for all of us), and other classes have seen their treasuries zapped in an instant because they haven't been prepared. Let's be ahead of the game and give consistently so we'll have money to pay for this publication, our mini-reunions, and our five-year reunion.

Had dinner recently with Chris Byrne,Dave Orlic, and Ruth Cserr, all of whom are in Hanover pursuing various interests. Ruth, who's been working at that architectural firm that's on stilts behind 5 Olde, is applying to architecture graduate schools, and she hopes to get an advanced degree in landscape design. Then, she plans to overhaul the golf course at Augusta National by the 1991 Masters.

One of the most interesting summer vacation stories I heard was that of KatePerle, who played field hockey at the Maccabee Games in Israel. This year's games, thanks to glasnost and perestroika, were the first to feature teams from the Soviet Union, and I'll bet Kate taught those Russkies a thing or two about the game.