1973

Class Officers Weekend in May brought Paul Sehl. president, Andy Caffrey vice president, Bob Conway, secretary, Bob Haynes mini-reunion chairman, and Bob Barr newsletter editor, together in Hanover to discuss finances, Fundraising projects, and reunions (the next mini is on October 21, and the Big One, the 25th, is in 1998).

Steve Bolster, associate professor and chairman of Berea College's music department, brought Berea's Concert Choir and Chamber Singers all the way from Kentucky to New England on a spring tour that included a performance at the Boothbay Harbor Congregational Church on the coast of Maine.

Since its founding in 1949, the Berea College choir has globetrotted to performances in Canada, Europe, and throughout the Eastern U.S. Boothbay, Maine, however, has special significance for Steve. That's where he met his wife, Sandra, while he worked at a nearby resort during summers in the seventies.

We saw in the Wall Street Journal (How 'bout that stock market!) a letter from BarryGrove, managing director of the Manhattan Theatre Club in N.Y.C., that acknowledged the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts in supporting regional theaters, of which the Manhattan Theatre Club is one.

Bob Glovsky, "The Money Expert" on Boston's Business 590 WBNW Money Expert show, hosted a business owners' retirement-planning workshop in Newton, Mass., last March. Bob is the director of Tofias, Fleishman, Shapiro & Co., P.C., and the director of Boston University's Program for Financial Planners.

Last March, Leon Black and wife Debra shared the chairmanship of "Un Bal Russe," a masked ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in N.Y.C. The ball, which had a Russian theme, was a benefit for the Jewish Museum and raised more than $1 million.

Reed Greene, an attorney in San Antonio, Texas, sent in a report on '73s in South Texas. Reed's daughters Marilyn 9 and Caitlin 5 attended sports camp this summer in order to learn tennis, soccer, badminton, and "Wales Tales." (Surely Reed could not be referring to the legendary SAE drinking game involving the Prince of Wales!) Wife Cecilia is a practicing accountant, and undoubtedly ensures that Reid's bills are paid.

Not long ago in San Antonio at the federal courthouse, Reed saw Bill Radford, an attorney specializing in bankruptcy. Reed reports that the Dartmouth Club of South Texas would like to increase involvement of the alumni in the Rio Grande Valley and in Corpus Christi (like Scott Sherman, an attorney and former social chairman at SAE).

Reed reported on his former Thetford Vt., housemates. Jack Dovidio is on the psychology faculty at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and farming organically on the side; and Jim Bryant is in the electronics business in New Bedford, Mass. Reed would like to hear from Doug Meyer who lives in Downington Pa

Received a fax from pressman Wayne M.Davis of Charleston, W.V., who modestly identified himself as the other Wayne Davis (not to be confused with Wayne C. Davis of Boston, Mass.) in our class. Wayne M. worked for the Associated Press for 13 years, running the Washington, D.C., bureau and operations in West Virginia and Vermont.

Wayne also spent four years as the Gannett Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Marshall University. Spouse Samme Lynn Gee, an attorney specializing in investment banking and public finance, is a partner with Jackson & Kelly, West Virginia's largest law firm.

Wayne is heading to East Africa for a six-week stint as a consultant for the U.S. Agency for International Development, visiting newspapers in Kenya and Tanzania.

What kind of summer fun have you had? Write, y'all.

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