1960

Imagine my surprise when the telephone rang at home at 12:30 a.m., and it was not my son David reporting a crisis on his European trip, but classmates Jon Richardson and Joe Batchelder saying they had had such a good time at the class party in Naples, Fla., that they were calling around to share their joy with fellow 19605.

Batch is the class's only Olympic medalist, a bronze in yachting at the 1964 Tokyo Games, and when he called he was fixing, as they say in the South, to carry the Olympic torch this year. Jon was visiting from San Jose, Calif. They said they had already kindly called, or tried to call, RogHanlon, Mort Kondracke, Rick Roesch,Eric Anderson, and Andy Paul, all Easterners, who would have heard from them at or after 3 a.m., not my gentler 12:30.

I was a little slow in picking up the news of the party of 20, other than the surprising confession from Jon that he had not sent in his $10 party contribution to Jay Emery in Hanover.

But such calls are much appreciated.

Retirements or new beginnings continue. Joel Alvord, stepping down as chairman of Fleet Financial Group in Boston next December 31, hopes to have found a new calling by then, perhaps in insurance. "The banks are going to be selling a tremendous amount of insurance in the future," he estimates, although he also "is looking at a few opportunities in 'academic and education So many exciting things are out there. I'm free as a bird."

After Tony Roisman messaged that when his wife, Lois, had a heart attack while they were visiting Tucson, her treatment by cardiologist Phil Serlin was outstanding, I thought of calling other doctors in the class who may have treated classmates or their family members, until I remembered the Hippocratic oath.

With this in mind, all Phil would say was that "once was more than enough: for such experiences," and, "Tony's gratitude was appreciated." Phil added he had seen no need to check with his business manager to see whether Tony had actually paid his bill.

In his 27 years as a member of Northern California's UC Davis law school faculty, Hap Dunning has distinguished himself in many ways. Initiating courses in water and environmental law, he also has assiduously fought on the side of conservationists to be sure that we in water imperialist Southern California observe the environmental laws, especially as pertains to raising the level of Mono Lake.

In Los Angeles, despite his efforts, we still are able to obtain some outside water, though not from Mono Lake, and so we are happy to raise our half filled glasses to congratulate Hap on receiving his school's William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award.

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Joe Batcheldercarried theOlympic torchthis year. Ken Reich '60