1971

Come join our next mini-reunion at the Harvard game! Kickoff is noon Saturday, October 28. We're sharing a tent—with the classes of 1969,1970 and 1973—on the front lawn of Heorot House (directly across the street from the gym). We'll meet at the tent both before and after the game. Bring your own food—the class will supply soda and beer. Contact rwwooster@aol.com for more information.

Mickey Stuart logged in from his hotel room in Budapest, where he was on a "global field-trip for my last semester of my belated M.B.A. from SMU. A career entrepreneur, I've re-invented the wheel far too many times. When I started this program, I couldn't read a balance sheet or an income statement (why does the left side always equal the right side?)—now I'm writing them for my dot-com business plans. I've been in the wine importing business for the past 15 years, but now it's off to the VC races with all the rest of you Wall Street gamblers. Its been a healthy challenge to raise a kid, run a business and go to grad school, but doable, and certainly very rewarding. Now if I could only get a date!"

John Hanley left Newport, Rhode Island, last year to become special assistant to the commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific in Hawaii. "Our turf covers the area from the west coast of the United States to the east coast of Africa. Kashmir, East Timor, China and North Korea all are in our neighborhood. We visited China and had spirited discussions with the Peoples Liberation Army leadership regarding our respective Taiwan policies. Now is the time for some statecraft on all sides. Security developments in the Asia Pacific region are troubling. We are encouraging a long view and the development of security communities among all of the nations in the region as the way ahead to security and peaceful development."

Robert Trout had never sent any news to the class column before, but the immediacy of my e-mail broadcast seems to have done the trick: 'Although I went to law school at Penn before they had a real environmental law course, I ended up practicing law in water rights, environmental permitting, endangered species and just about anything related to water development in the west. I have been practicing law in Denver for 25 years, now with my own small firm, Trout & Raley, which primarily represents local and state governments regarding all of the impediments that now exist to water development in the west. I have been involved in some of the biggest water fights in Colorado over the years, and now am working on the water infrastructure for the million more people who are expected in Colorado in the next 20 years. I celebrated my 50th last year by spending a month in southwest France on the Dordogne River in a large rented house. I invited many friends and family to come and stay for a week or more; a great way to turn 50."

Jeff McElnea and John Eaton both reported the coincidence that their respective sons, Patrick and Charlie, found themselves in the same dorm last year when they arrived as freshman at NYU .Jeff said: "The boys hadn't met all year despite the two fathers encouraging it. Finally fate had it that they would meet by natural causes, and within a week become fast friends." As John put it, "I was going to call Jeff to make sure that he had not shared any stories with his son which would get back to my son. Alas, I find it's too late."

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