1963

This year's mini-reunion, October 18-19, at Home-coming in Hanover will be a cause for celebration. For the first time ever, our class has won the Green Derby, an annual college fundraising competition against three other classes in our age group. Led by President RichBerkowitz and Head Agent Bruce Baggaley, we raised just under $200,000, a nonreunion class record for us and $35,000 more than our goal for this year. Points are given for such things as how many class members participate, number of "leadership" or large donors, and raising a record amount for the year. Leading the charge on Baggaley's team was John Kubacki who also found time to get married.

Speaking of Homecoming, mini-reunion chair Bob Bysshe confirms that once again we'll be having cocktails at Dean Edson's home near the stadium and dinner at BobBarnum's spread in Lyme, N.H. There's usually great entertainment, food and fellowship, so make it a point to come. Call Bob Brysshe for info at (212) 454-3727.

Fred Chaffee, an astronomer who became the first director of the Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory on Mt. Hopkins near Tuscon, Ariz., in 1984, landed in Hawaii in the summer, this time as the first resident director of the Keck Observatory, home of the two largest optical telescopes in the world. The first of the telescopes, Keck I, completed in 1991, has analyzed light from the farthest galaxies ever seen, discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its twin, Keck 11, which went into use last spring, is expected to combine its light for some observations with Keck I, giving them a focusing power 10 times sharper than either working alone. Fred Chaffee likens his new position with "being handed the young Mozart at age 10 after he has already written 10 symphonies and five operas and being asked to nurture him to reach his full potential." Fred's departure from Mt. Hopkins is classified as a leave of absence for one year. His wife, Ann, remains at the University of Arizona College of Medicine where she teaches philosophy.

The Summer Olympics in Atlanta are past but not forgotten by Atlanta resident Frank Finsthwait, who got to see six events, and Jerry Ashworth of Andover, Mass., who reminisced about his ten seconds of gold-medal glory for the Boston Globe. Jerry was a member of the winning U.S. 4-by- 100-meter relay team in Tokyo in 1964. Frank Finsthwait, in his 29th year teaching English at the Westminster Schools, spent his summer vacation visiting son Scott, a Kenyon graduate, who teaches English in Prague. Daughter Elizabeth is in school in San Marcos, Tex.

Rick Bowes has set up an electronic publishing consultancy in Duxbury, Mass., focusing on scholarly publications such as The New England "journal of Medicine, where he directed publishing operations in the 1980s. His number is (617) 934-7432. Wife Anne travels the world as a leading dog breeder, trainer, and judge. Catherine is at Washington University, St. Louis; Heather at Gordon Conwell Seminary, Hamilton, Mass.

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Jerry Asliwortli enjoyed gold-medal glory in 1964 as a member of theU.S. 4-by-100-meter relay team. Harry Zlokower'63