1955

Bob Leopold, our ever and still seafaring classmate, is about to set out on the big deep again. He writes (via email) that he is "going back to seaona'bigmutha' 502 feet long, 106 feet deep, 55,000 gross tons," that he will be going into the shipyard for two months, "then loading one quarter of a U.S. mechanized batallion on board in January and sailing out to Guam to pre-position the army equipment for the planet's next contingency. Say tuned." All we can add is look out, Saddam Hussein!

Dick Mount, indisputably "Mr. Tennis" of the class of '55, has finally turned his avocation into his vocation. In a recent trans-Atlantic phone conversation (note that I am likely to call from anywhere looking for news to report) Dick related that having passed all the requisite tests he is now a certified tennis pro. His pride and joy is the Quincy Tennis Club and, in the summertime, the tennis club of the famous Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Mass., where last summer he had 135 kids enrolled in his program. To which we add watch out, Steffi!

But not to be outdone in the "serve and volley" set is the Rev. Roy Nyren. Roy writes that since retiring last New Year's Eve to Zephyrhills, Fla. (Where he is anxiously awaiting the next mini-reunion in that state), one of the special things that has happened is winning the Father-Son Division of the 70th Annual Public Parks Tennis Championships with his son, Dirk, a tennis teaching pro at the Aberdeen Country Club in Boynton Beach. Father and son traveled to Louisville, Ky., for the event and Roy even enclosed a copy of the computer printout of the results for any of you doubting Thomases out there. He also adds that he looks forward to teaming again with Bobbie Weisman (spouse of Carl) at the 45th Reunion to defend their mixed doubles title.

Also on the athletic front, class President Brook Parker reports a good showing by two of the class's more enduring roadrunners, Pete Buhler and Bob Fanger. Both were finishers this past summer in the annual Falmouth Road Race (a seven-mile mini-marathon on Cape Cod's south shore) and, in Brooks' words, they gave the seven winning Kenyons "a real run for their money." Could the Boston Marathon be next?

Brooks also reports that under the strong leadership of Woody Goss and add a mega-dose of understated charmthe class' Alumni Fund won the Green Derby Award and set a non-reunion record, hardly missing a beat from the record achievements of our 40th Reunion a year ago. Congratulations all around!

Finally, as promised, here is the first installment of the class of 1955 e-mail directory earnestly suggested by the first name: Eliot Hersey , Pete Knoke , Bob Leopold , Dave Oberlander .

Now is the time for the rest of you superhighwaymen (a large and growing number, I am sure) to emerge from cyberspace and pass along your tags for inclusion in forthcoming installments. T. he price or entry is a mere item or two for me to share with your classmates via this column. Start typing!

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