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The countdown continues; the 35th reunion will be October 17-20. We need your assistance in recruiting nominees for class officers and volunteers to help the class. Step up and serve; get reacquainted with your classmates. Let Sam Ostrow know of your interests. Remember to support the 35 th reunion giving effort; contact Howard Sharfstein for details.

Peter Golenbock, in St. Petersburg, Florida, is still writing sports books. He published a children's book about Hank Aaron's quest to break Babe Ruth's home run record and another (TheLast Lap) about famous NASCAR drivers who died at the wheel. Next spring an oral history of the New York Mets (Amazin) will be published. After graduating from New York University law school in 1970, Pete went into the hotel business for two years providing housing for college students in New York City. After working as a lawyer in a personal injury firm for eight weeks, in July of 1972 he was hired to work in the legal department of Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. He soon changed to writing sports books.

Since 1975 he has written some of sports' most important books, including live New YorkTimes bestsellers. Pete moved from Ridgefield, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg in 1989 to write about the Senior Professional Baseball League. Pete remarks he still can't believe Mickey Beard is no longer with us; Mickey was certainly the most visible athlete from our class. If any classmate should arrive in St. Petersburg, Pete would be glad to hear from you.

John Lewis of Durham, New Hampshire, be gan his tradition of public service with practic Commission ing law for the Equal Employment Opportunity from 1974 to 1976, as chairman of the state board of education in 1997, and has been sworn in as a state Superior Court judge. John serves on the board of directors for Lamprey Health Care and Kids Voting. He earned his law degree from Columbia in 1973. He was a Ful bright scholar and spent a year at the Institut D'Etude Politique in Grenoble, France.John and wife Cindy have three children: Michael, David and Madeline.

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