1987

I ran into too many people to count at the reunion, but it was especially good to see my old friends Craig Denekas, Betsy Pelikan, Charlie Matt, Jim Goodrich, Daniel Gisser and wife Werner Morawitz, Landon Gates, Peter Blum and wife Jen (a fellow UT-Austin graduate degree graduate), Clyfe Beckwith, Jock McDonald, Allison Bleyer McDonald, Kristine Kohler, Contrad Smith, Eric Nelsen, Chris Baker, Scott Rafshoon, Lindley Shutz and husband Michael Lynch, Bethany Rogers and Kim Jacobs. I see Jeff Blatt and Erin Foster pretty often, so while it was good to see them, it was unsurprising! could tell you what they are all doing, but that would violate the privacy agreements we all signed in advance. These locales are all involved: Baltimore, Maine, Scarsdale, Sun Valley, Northampton (twice), Milwaukee (twice), D.C. (twice), Atlanta, New York (many times), San Francisco (many times), Andover and Concord.

I'm sure I forgot someone who I had a long conversation with, but that's the nature of the reunion. Another highlight was listening to Moon- rocks and Harold Ambler s band. I want to make a plea for everyone who is even remotely interested in catching up with people to attend our next reunion in six years (yes, we get the 25th reunion on the right date). I know people feel odd at reunions—and they are very strange at times—but my experience is that people are exceedingly nice and, at least the people I saw and talked to, have no interest in tracking your career trajectory or your weight gain or loss (though I do think single people need to have some funny hat or perhaps a scarlet "S" to help self-identify). I heard from some classmates that some people had misgivings about returning because their current lives didn't match their promise, or that they are much different after college than they were inside. To most people, that doesn't matter. And to those for whom it matters, they don't. So come in six years.

This will be my last column—Wendy Becker is going to be secretary; H. Morgan is our new president. Amy Baker will continue to co-edit the newsletter. I'm sure Wendy will do a much better job than I did, especially the last few years. Moving to New York and working on getting tenure is no way to successfully write a column.

I enjoyed it and enjoyed hearing from everyone during the last five years.

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