1972

More than 100 classmates and a large crowd of accompanying wives, kids, and friends enjoyed a fantastic reunion weekend in June. Fuzzy Thurston rode his bike in from Maine, and the rest of the class converged from Bangkok and Boston, Dallas and Detroit, Hawaii and Hartford, via more conventional means of transportation. The weekend had many highlights, including a strong showing by a very fit '72 crew in the reunion race, a hot-air balloon carnival at Quechee, and a full slate of kids' activities, including the Saturday picnic accompanied by the band Peggosus, led by Paul Hodes and his wife Peggo.

Saturday morning, Peter Broberg presided over his last meeting, in which dues were raised and several issues discussed, including sending non-dues-paying '72s one issue of this magazine per year. The following slate of officers was presented by Dick Krant, chairman of the nominating committee and elected by the class: Gary Dicovitsky, president; ChipCarstensen, treasurer; Jon Einsidler, secretary; Craig Bendy, Alumni Fund chairman; and Dave Bailey, Alumni Council representative. Fred Crossman will continue with the newsletter, Bendy's hard work for the Alumni Fund was recognized (a record performance), and the entire Reunion Committee, including Shel Prentice, John Burke, LaurenCummings, Young Dawkins, and Peter Broberg, was thanked for their help.

Instead of the traditional dinner with keynote speaker Saturday night, the class had cocktails at the Top of the Hop and dinner in Alumni Hall, followed by entertainment in the Hopkins Center theater. David Bellows warmed up the audience with some hilarious reminiscences, and then introduced BillAydelott, who presented a series of his television commercials in an entertaining video segment. Bellows then introduced David Carroll, our class representative to Broadway David gave an incredible cabaret-style performance, received numerous standing ovations for his efforts, and delivered several encore numbers.

Later that night, a disc jockey played into the wee hours as W.T. Thorwarth and friends watched his daughter dance. Don Fennessey, home safely from Desert Storm, briefed some of our war buffs on the Persian Gulf. Elsewhere under the tent, Joel Hyatt fielded questions about his "testing the waters" in the Ohio senatorial race to replace his father-in-law, Howard Metzenbaum. Buddy Lynch and John Burke began planning our 25th Reunion, while Jim Smith, Mike Sack, and RollandWalker tried to catch up for their late arrivals. Numerous stalwarts of previous years disappeared surprisingly early in the evening because of babysitter schedules, or to be at top form for Sunday morning's reunion run. The great news was that no one was keeping score.

To those of you who missed it, please read Fred's next newsletter for more details. In general, there was less beer and more soda, fewer girlfriends and more kids, less hair and more paunches, fewer regrets and more high hopes than evidenced at previous reunions. David Carroll's performance seemed to trigger a universal feeling of warmth, friendship and esprit, never before experienced by the class. Have we finally come of age? Put it this way, Wayne Young said he was finally ready to give to the Alumni Fund.

Seriously, it was a great note to leave on. I've enjoyed the contact with all of you over the last five years—l wish I could mention everyone and personally thank you for sending in news, but we can look forward to Jon Einsidler's columns, beginning next month. Jon has done a great job for the class as minireunion chairman, and before that as newsletter editor. Jon has several ideas to increase communication within the class—look for his answering machine number next month.

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