1949

Coming to the 50th Reunion? Definitely? Probably? Can't make it? Haven't decided yet? Well, whatever your plans, please send in a fairly contemporary photo that we can use in the Reunion book. Do it soon. Make that now.

It can be a brand new one or just "recent." It could be of you alone or might very well include your wife. Maybe a shot on vacation in the Alps. Or that "portrait" from Kmart with all the grandkids. A spare passport shot. The poster off the post office wall. A copy of the oil painting your board of directors commissioned. An eight-by-ten glossy your company used for PR. A snapshot from your back yard. It doesn't matter whether it's color or black and white. All we ask is that it feature a recognizable you and is repro-ducible. Send it to me at the address below, packing it so that Uncle Sam can't damage it. Send one you can part with because you probably won't get it back. If you post it post haste, we can take your name off the list and won't have to follow up, thereby saving the class money.

Of course, absent a recent photo we may have to use your freshman or Aegis picture. One last thing: write your name and those of any others in the photo legibly on the back (don't use a ballpoint pen). "Dad & Jimmy at the beach" just won't do, and we don't want to have to publish a correction in the next 1949 book (in 2049).

Recently received questionnaires from two classmates absent from these Class Notes for some time. They reveal that both Tom McManus and Jim Mytton expect to return for the Reunion. Great, Tom and Jim. Now send photos.

And speaking of the 50th, don't forget that the powers-to-be are offering an optional extension of two or three days at The Balsams in Dixville Notch, N.H., to be tacked on to the Hanover festivities for those who want to keep bonding as long as possible. Last January three of your class officers thought it would be a good' idea to check out the facilities at the resort, up there where the first votes in the presidential elections are tallied right after midnight. We discovered that the cross-country skiing was excellent. We really couldn't tell much about the golf and tennis venues, but the buffets go on forever. Unfortunately both Vail Haak and Gordon Thomas advised that writing this exploratory junket off as a business expense was monkey business, and I reluctantly agreed. For more info about next June's Balsams option, call Gordon at (802) 649- 2100. Ask him about his race for Norwich first selectman, too.

If you heard that John McI1wraith was thinking of switching his official allegiance to the class of 1950, be advised that he has changed his mind. Of course, quite a few of us '49ers could take advantage of servicedelayed graduations, switch to 1950 after our 50th, and celebrate two big ones. Sounds like millennial madness, don't you think?

Bob Nutt, RR #1, Box 215A, Fairlee, VT 05045;