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The dynamics of our class friendships are varied, but one of the most inspiring is where classmates didn't know each other at all in our days in Hanover, but met after graduation and cemented a deep friendship.

This is the case with Dick Prior and John Adams. Dick writes, "I have undergone a change in lifestyle that I find very rewarding. I sold my business recently, as well as our long-time principal residence in suburban New York. We are now living during the summers in Quogue, Long Island, and in Savannah, Georgia, in the colder season.

"One of the reasons we decided to relocate ourselves to Savannah is because of the encouragement by my good friend and classmate John Adams, who lives very nearby us here on Skid away Island, Georgia. John is active with his business interests in Topeka and at the same time maintains a very low handicap in his golf games. We often see each other socially and on the golf course."

I called Dick, and remarked that he must have known John well in Hanover. But he quickly corrected me. "We didn't know each other then at all. But later we were neighbors in suburban Westchester County, New York. He was corporate American and I was in the entrepreneurial world, but still we became fast friends."

And now that friendship is bearing great fruit. Dick relates, "I am 'trying' to learn how to play golf, and I am playing on a tennis team as well as swimming in masters competition in Georgia. Swimming is an activity that I have just resurrected after a 40-year layoff. Fishing is also a major avocation. I am involved with a service organization helping underprivileged children mostly from o to 5 years of age as well."

And he recently visited Atlanta, where he dined with Duncan Knapp and Bill McClung. Bill and Dick, incidentally, finished 1-2 in the 50-yard breaststroke, and each won several other events in a masters swimming competition in Atlanta.

Friendship is also bringing together far flung 1960s this summer at the Marin County (California) wedding of Bob Caulfield. Class president Rick Roesch is serving as best man and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Haley Fromholz is officiating. Both were roommates of Bob in Hanover.

The lucky bride is Margaret Barton, and Mike Notaro, John Barchilon and Axel Grabowski are also invited.

Long live all our friendships! And to this end, our next reunion will be at Homecoming October 19 and 20.

It's the Columbia game, and as so many times before, it's bound to be a great time for all who show.

Other correspondence comes from John Omaha, who has been awarded a Ph.D. in counseling and transpersonal psychology from International University of Professional Studies, Maui, and John Richardson, who has taken anew job as director of American University's Center for Teaching Excellence. Before he starts, he plans to visit Sri Lanka, twice.

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