1975

In this Class Notes game, it's either feast or famine, and last month's overstuffed mailbox is followed by a serious dearth of correspondence this month. Cumon fo lksgetwi the program! In fact, were it not for some misplaced notes, we would have been completely skunked for news. Happily, my lack of organization caused me to misfile my notes from a conversation with my old buddy Michael Hutton earlier this year (MIA, April issue) who was responding to The Call. Being smoked out of incommunicado land, Michael called to bring me up to date on his life. He married Tyler Beatie five years ago, and they have three cats and no kids. He had just returned from the East Coast when we spoke, and he mentioned that he stopped in Hanover to check out the Maid's Bar at Tabard, the scene of many a zoom-schwartz game for both of us. "Ooooooh, it looked bad," he regurgitated, "just like old times." Michael is the assistant executive director of a private mental health agency in the Bay Area, and he recendy opened up the first homeless youth shelter in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco.

Michael said he keeps in touch with some old zoomers. Rick Neiss now has three kids and lives in Madison, Wise., where he lawyers around. Also lawyering with three kids is JohnKoltes. Sorry for the delay, Michael, but better late than never. I appreciate the call.

Speaking of calls, will the following people please check in and report on their status: Tom Aites Carroll BrewsterHoward Cadwell Annick CooperStephen Johnson Steuen JohnsonJames Greer Eric McLeod The Owl that calls upon the Night, Speaks the Unbeliever's fright, The Child's Toys & the Old Man's Reasons, Are the Fruits of the Two Seasons.

William Blake

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