1949

How many people do you know who attended this summer's Woodstock retrospective? A neighbor's son? Your doctor's daughter? A '49 classmate? One of your own grandchildren? Well, if you picked the third possibility you win a ticket to the 50th anniversary of Woodstock in 2019. We're talking here about one of the least likely candidates on anyone's list: MikeMcGean. It seems that Mike's fiancee, Lenore O'Jibway, who's assistant director of special gifts at the College, has a brother, Paul, who plays in Joe Cocker's band. Joe Cocker had been at the first Woodstock, although Paul O'Jibway wasn't, but Paul was at this one playing keyboard, harmonica, and sax. Well, sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll were the things that Mike though would be paramount at Woodstock. But he went anyway, to look after Lenore's safety, he says. She says he was a very good sport even if he did think Woodstock represented the epitome of the decline and fall of American culture as we know it. Or used to know it. Lenore also says Mike was the only one of the 200,000 or so people in the neighborhood wearing a tennis visor, khakis, and an oxford shirt. He was the only person there who thought mushrooms were something you used in soup, or an omelet. He was the only guy there who blushed when that naked babe was passed along on high, so to speak. "But he earned megapoints with my family," says Lenore. "And actually he didn't think Joe Cocker's band was too bad."

Dick Wallace of Brookline, Mass., hasn't returned to Hanover for many reunions, but he says he had such a great time at the 45th in June that he signed up for last month's mini. Make it a habit.

After being named Massachusetts's Financial Services Advocate of the Year, Jim Zafris went on to win the regional, then the national title awarded by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Jim, the president of the Danvers Savings Bank, developed a Small Business Resource Center that keeps the bank's staff au courant on SBA initiatives, as well as on those of other government agencies. Earlier this year Jim testified before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in support of the Capital Access Program for small businesses. Forget IBM; small businesses are the glue that keeps our economy from falling apart.

Skip and Evie Muller of Lake George, N.Y., spent a month in Greece recently, but they returned in time for convocation at Ithaca College, where Skip is chairman of the board.

Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island attracted Bruce and Leigh Crawford recently, but they returned in time for the October mini, then headed south to Sarasota.

Probably you don't get to see the Daily D very often, so you probably missed the frontpage story about the information booth on the Green, where Jay Evans has just completed his fifth year as a volunteer. "It's the best job in town, you meet so many fascinating people," said Jay. Maybe a '49er or two?

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Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll were the things Mike McGean thought would be paramount at Woodstock. But he went anyway. BOB NUTT '49