1969

This column officially kicks off reunion season for the class. The dates for our 35th reunion are from Monday-June 14, to Thursday, June 17. If you're not sure about the year, do the math! The first event is, as always, Homecoming Weekend. This year we play Columbia on October 25. Last year we had a block of rooms at the Coolidge Hotel and plan to do the same this year. The accommodations were not luxurious but the ambience made up for that. We also had a huge upper foyer where we held our latenight deliberative sessions. Look for more details in your mail.

Reunion co-chair Paul Tuhus will be in Burma during Homecoming but has promised to bring something back for everyone who comes to the reunion. I assume he was not referring to some disease.

The class e-mail has been hosting lively discussions about current and not-so-current events. A major contributor has been Tom McWhorter, who owns a chemical outfit specializing in the production of chlorine dioxide (I hope I remembered that correctly) used as a disinfectant. Another is Curtis Nichols, who teaches at the Green Valley School, a Montessori school in New Hampshire. Aldie Caram gives us the overseas viewpoint and often directs us to interesting Web sites. Lowell Richards' wife, Karen, also is a regular. Mike Vasey jumps in from California and Julian Reeves from Virginia. Michael Hermann sends occasional reports from the Independent Republic of Vermont. I apologize to those I did not mention. It is a mixed bag of people and points of view with more than occasional disagreements but very little rancor.

You can become a part of this by going to the class Web site and following the directions found there. The URL is www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/69/home69-html. The class really has to thank Peter Elias for taking the time to be our Webmaster and making our cyber-discussions possible. It would be a fantastic thing if all those who regularly contribute to the discussion would come to the reunion if only to speak face to face. We could hold a seminar regarding communications in todays world and how fiction can fast become "truth" when "facts" can be so quickly and widely disseminated. Something to think about.

I remind you of three things: 1) Homecoming is the weekend of October 25-26; 2) the 35 th reunion is June 14 to 17, 2004; and 3) please send me some news!

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