1967

Last reminder to make your reservations for our reunion; the 35th reunion will be October 17-20. Bruce Pacht has organized a great get-together! Let Bruce know if you can join us. One of the themes to be explored during reunion will focus on retirement. If would be interesting to learn how many of us have been able to retire (or get things in order to consider it). What were the steps taken in the planning process? Can the process be discussed with others? Perhaps the comments can be shared on the class Web site. Another theme will consider our losses, which are approaching 50 classmates.The Class of 1967 Memorial Grove at Occom Pond will be dedicated during reunion.

Our class lost Harris Wagenseil to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in January. In his remarks as chair of the Undergraduate Council in the fall of 1966, he spoke of the ideal: "Man complete within himself and aware of that without himself."

Harris showed how to be a scholar, athlete and class leader. He was a member of Alpha Theta/Theta Chi, Casque & Gauntlet, Green Key, and Palaeopitus; captain of track and field; Senior Fellow; Phi Beta Kappa; summa cum laude; Rhodes scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford University, earning a B.A. degree in politics, philosophy and economics; J.D. from Harvard University (in 1972). Harris served as a trial lawyer, founding his own firm in 1981. In 1983 he went into business with Cummins Engine Co. and completed the M.B.A. in business management from Wharton in 1985. In 1989 he joined Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska, from which he retired in 1997 as vice president of maintenance operations. He moved to Austin, Texas to work as a railroad consultant and manage his computer services company Railcentral.net. He was active in many industry related organizations. Harris served on opera boards in the communities he lived, including being the president of the board of opera in Omaha. He was a member of the Nature Conservancy of Nebraska. He died at his home in Ware Neck, Virginia. Harris is survived by his wife, Susan; their children Galen, Whitney, Jessica, Katherine and William; his mother, Patricia; sister Gail; and cousin Taylor Wagenseil '68. We are all saddened by his passing. Our sympathies to the Wagenseil family.

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