1971

Bob Mustard asks, "How many times do I get to start over? Hope I've got it right this time. I am now director of sales for Aviation One. It has taken 23 years to get back into aviation as a career. We lease fractional shares of jet (Cessna Citations) and piston aircraft (Piper Seneca Vs and Saratoga II), primarily servicing the New England, New York, and Newjersey areas from our home base atMarshfield Airport on the south shore of Massachusetts I get to do a lot more flying but could do even more if some of you would consider our services so I can come give you a demonstration flight. This is definitely the best way to be a part of business and general aviation. My golf game has suffered badly as I've moved to Duxbury, Mass., and been working and flying rather than hitting the links. Doug Boyink and I proved once again that we are better at beating one another than our competition at a recent tournament in Chatham, but both of us managed to break 80 at least once on our way to defeat."

Peter "Weebs" Webster "took off last July and, along with two friends, was dropped in Newport, Vt., on the Canadian border. We rode our bikes back to Connecticut over the next four days, and it was a great adventure—right down Rt. 100 to Rt. 30 in Jamaica, then down to Rt.5 in Brattleboro, and back through the flats of Massachusetts and Connecticut. It actually was not as bad, physically, as I thought it would be—a great way to see and experience the state of Vermont, and we stayed at local B&Bs and inns along the way. A real adventure, even in the sweltering heat of last summer. I am running for one more two-year term as first selectman in Essex this fall: It's a great town, and I just hope the voters will have me for one more term...guess I'm a glutton for punishment."

Ike Heard has left the Northwest Corridor Community Development Corp. after eight years and is now the director for the Charlotte office of the Enterprise Foundation, responsible for providing technical assistance, advice, and advocacy for six community development corporations (including the NW Corridor CDC) in Charlotte and overseeing the Charlotte Neighborhood Fund, which has supported a variety of costs related to revitalization in Charlotte's inner city neighborhoods. The foundation, an outgrowth of the work of builder/developer Jim Rouse, is the prime provider of technical assistance and development loans for community revitalization in scores of cities across the country. Ike is "still teaching part time at the University of N.C. at Charlotte in the geography and urban planning program. I have been doing that for more than ten years now, in addition to my other 'jobs.' My son Addison '98, Th' 99 (chemical engineering) has just started his new job with the NASA contractor Futron as a risk-analysis engineer and is presently undergoing his training in Houston. His primary project will be the international space station. I have simply told him to get his math right so that nothing inappropriate will fall out of the sky."

I don't get much news these days except what comes via e-mail. So those two-thirds of you who haven't sent me any e-mail OR snail mail (you know who you are!), get on the stick. Let's get some new names in the column next time! Best wishes to you all.

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'71 football players Murry Bowdenand Jim Chasey, p. 24