1980

Twenty-five years ago Jimmy Carter battled Ronald Reagan in a doomed effort to retain the presidency. Iran continued to hold hostages in the U.S. embassy there, after a failed rescue effort in April. Sandinistas controlled Nicaragua. Box office successes included RagingBull, Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter and TheElephant Man. Billy Joel won album of the year with 52nd Street, and the Doobie Brothers sang about "What a Fool Believes." Disco was not dead yet, however, and "Le Freak," "Bad Girls" or "YMCA" all played frequently on the radio—or in Beta after 10 p.m. on weekends. Median household income was $17,710, unemployment was 7.1 percent and a first-class stamp cost 15 cents. Sartre diedguess he had an exit after all. William Douglas, Alfred Hitchcock, John Lennon Jesse Owens and Mae West all died in 1980 as well, names out of history for our children, but persons alive in our lifetimes. Time flies when you're having fun, and also when you're not. What about now?

of the Mississippi River. With more than 280 attorneys, the firm has seven offices throughout the country. Peter focuses his practice on toxic tort litigation, primarily asbestos and benzene litigation. He served as law clerk to the Hon. John K. Reagan, U.S. district judge, St. Louis, Missouri, from 1984 to 1986.

Bob Garry should tell you about the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Youth Lacrosse program he founded in 1998 after moving to Larchmont, New York, and learning the town had no lacrosse program for young people. Bob was recognized in 2004 as the U.S. Lacrosse Youth Program Administrator of the Year. The Larchmont program serves more than 600 boys and girls from first through eighth grade.

Ask Eric Ziolkowski to explain the new book he edited, Literature, Religion and East/West Comparison. Eric is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies and department head at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. With a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Erics special academic interests include religion and literature, the philosophy of religion, comparative religion and the history of Christianity. Eric is also the author of Evil Children in Religion, Literature andArt and The Sanctification of Don Quixote: From Hidalgoto Priest.

Talk to David Watt, a retina specialist in Annapolis, Maryland. Bud Dutton '42, generously gave $500 to the Alumni Fund in honor of our class and in gratitude to Dr. Watt. David successfully operated on Bud, restoring his "vision to a very useful state." David earned his medical degree at Northwestern and did his ophthalmology residency at the Medical College of Virginia.

A reunion is a time to remember the past and reflect on times passing, but only in part. More importantly, a reunion is a reconnection in the here and now. Finally, a reunion is a chance to look ahead at the shadows of things to come. As I declared at Class Day in 1980: "We historians examine the past, so as to understand the present, and to get some idea of the future." Make haste to Hanover.

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