1960

Seventeen active members of our class live outside the U.S. six in Canada, three in Germany, two in Britain, and one each in the Czech Republic, Austria, France, Australia, South Africa, and Uganda.

Probably the most exotic of the addresses is Jason Clark's, who is affiliated with St. Leo's College in Fort Portal, Uganda.

I soon found that reaching most of them requires a letter. Only five have e-mail addresses listed by the College, and only one more has a phone number.

So what was intended to be an international Class Note will have to be, for now, a limited one, including some classmates who've recently had some international ties. Meanwhile, I'll ask the others for news by mail.

Abe Ross, of Paradise, Newfoundland, says he took a position in the psychology department at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1975, intending to stay only for a year or two.

"Twenty-three years later, my wife, Sue, and I look back and realize that this has been a good place to live and raise our children," he wrote. "There is little crime, minimal drugs, people still leave house doors unlocked, key in the car, etc. From our living room window we look out over a 90 km sweep of Conception Bay. In the spring we see icebergs floating down the bay, and in the summer we see whales."

Peter Gump, another Canadian resident, has had his own executive search business in Toronto since 1972 and has clients on both sides of the border.

"Madeleine and I still vacation regularly in Vermont, skiing, hiking, and golfing, and celebrated our 40th anniversary in August," he writes. "Brand new granddaughter Megan on the 4th of July."

Duncan Gray lives in Houston, but when I reached him had just returned the night before from the former Soviet Union. He is in a law firm that specializes in oil, gas, and mining development in Central Asia and the Caucasus. "We're still hoping to stay in business there, although it's pretty tough in Asia," he remarked.

Doing increasing business abroad on the internet is Ray Keating, who lives in Campton, N.H., but has developed a software product for the management of beauty salons that is marketed exclusively on the internet.

Dave Lee will be sailing in the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands about six months a year when he retires in a couple of years from supervising the Washington office of Manhattan Construction Co. He has purchased a 44-foot sailboat that is anchored in Chesapeake Bay and is already "practicing."

John Herrick, long the leader in the International Squash Federation, tells me that unrest on the Indian subcontinent recently induced him to move the latest tournament from Bombay to Qatar. This will be a more hospitable environment for the powerful Palistani team. He said he would be shortly off to Qatar to inspect the facilities.

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John Herrick has moved the latest international squash tournament from Bombay to Qatar. KEN REICH '60