1951

Peter Bogardus and your scribe are partners in an effort to entice as many 'sls and spouses/friends/relatives as possible to attend the San Francisco mini-reunion this coming April 24-27. As complete a program as can be setup eight months in advance you will find described in Dave Batchelders '51 Fables, due about the timeyou read this. Highlights include a bus tour of the Napa wine country that will include three wineries for tasting, a box lunch and tours of wine-making facilities. Scheduled for Friday evening is a trip to Beach Blanket Babylon, a theatrical production that even the locals enjoy repeating every few years. Saturdays events are touristy, cerebral and cultural and celebrate the history of S.F. as well as its current attractions. Dinner that night will be in Chinatown. Sunday is get-away day but one last tourist event—Alcatraz—is on tap for that morning.

A trip for me to the 32nd states Twin Cities in early August for a wedding of a friends son included lunch with three classmates: DickMcFarland, Bill Roberts and Jim Rogers. Arranged and paid for by Dick at his posh downtown club, I later learned that these guys don't see each other that often. As many of you have learned for yourself, when you call up classmates to set up a gathering, you're doing them a favor as well. Favorite places for that trio were elicited as follows: Dick and. Jim remember fondly the Reserve Room and its Orozco murals and Bill gets misty recalling fraternity hum contests in front of Dartmouth Row.

Jim Culberson is the latest classmate I've heard about to be rewarded many-fold for his contribution of time, talent and, I'm sure, treasure to his local non-profit organization. In jim's case it's his local hospital. The 2002 Trustee Merit Award from the North Carolina Hospital Association is given annually to a hospital trustee "who has made a unique contribution to his/her hospital and has participated in statewide health care activities." A lengthy description of Jim's efforts in that civic endeavor shows he deserved the honor.

Another classmate getting much ink in his hometown is Hank Sanders. A column titled "Our Neighbors" in the Darien Times in Connecticut is so effusive that we must conclude that the columnist owes Hank a lot of money or vice versa. Just kidding, of course. Many of us who have enjoyed following Hank's career of loyalty to his class and college don't know that his zeal for service extends to local and statewide politics in the Nutmeg state as well. My favorite story is the one when he was first selectman and a constituent called to complain about a snow filled street. Soon after the call, who appears with snow shovel in hand in front of the caller's home but our guy, Hank, of course!

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