1960

This is not housekeeping. This is our future joy as classmates. From John Goyette comes word of our October 19-20 minireunion, and from Dick Foley and Gene Kohn come the tentative schedule of next years 70th birthday celebration, now with new dates, June 12-15, in Boston.

The mini-reunion will have all the customary events—a class meeting, tailgate party, the football game (this year with Columbia) and the class dinner, this year again at the Hanover Inn. But kicking it off will be a special event, a cocktail party in the resplendent atrium of the new Mac Lean Engineering Sciences Center. The center is the gift of our classmate Barry MacLean and his wife, Mary Ann, who will be present at the 5 p.m. Friday event.

For our 70th birthday party we have a gala schedule that only Boston could provide. The events include golf on Cape Cod being arranged by Marry Lower, a Boston Red Sox game, the whodunit play Shear Madness, a dinner at Symphony Hall followed by a Boston Pops Concert, a Friday night clambake, a political forum above Fanueil Hall, plus a number of options, including a harbor cruise, a high-speed ferry to Provincetown, a whale watching cruise, a trolley tour to the Boston museums and buses to the Kennedy Library and the Adams Homestead.

Dick and Gene are proud of the efforts thus far, and we hope for an even better turnout than our resounding 60th birthday in San Francisco and 65th in Chicago. You will be hearing more about a hotel at a special rate, etc., as the plans are further refined.

It turns out I may have made a grievous error in designating Bob Kenerson as the "champion legacy" of the class. Bob, a modest man, didn't much like that title, but it turns out he need not have worried, since Mel Converse notifies me that while Bob had a great-grandfather in the class of 1876 who was married to the great granddaughter of the youngest sister of Eleazer Wheelock, founder of the College, Mel had a great-great-great grandfather (I think that is right) who graduated in the class of 1822.

Bob, by the way, was recently installed as a life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association at its annual meeting in San Diego. However, the honors did not end there. Bob and his wife, Ruth, entered the groups golf tournament as partners, which he describes as "a real test of the marriage," and came out on top with a 64 score. Now they are real champions.

George Liebmann, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate from Maryland, is the editor of a new book, The Trimmer's Almanac, marking 10 years of the Calvert Institute, in which he has a number of essays. What struck me most was his concluding essay, lambasting President Bush's civil liberties record in the "war on terror." I asked George if he is still a Republican. He indicated the answer was yes, but only on a state level.

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