1960

In many years of writing i960 Class Notes, this one from Cape Town, South Africa, comes from the greatest distance. But an African cruise adventure can't begin to compare with classmate Neil Koreman's 1970 visit as a physician to Algeria, where, in the midst of doing charitable work, he was arrested by security forces and jailed as a spy. He told me the story at dinner the night before I sailed out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Fortunately, his detention did not last long. Many of our classmates continue to travel widely. Gene and Judy Kohn just in the last two years have visited Egypt and China, including rebellious Tibet. Jim and Brooke Adler went with them to China and Tibet. Indeed, we all travel so much that on two occasions, by accident, I ran into classmates in remote locales—Rick Roesch in a hotel in Hanoi and Rick Lyman in Denali National Park in the shadow of Mt. McKinley. Roesch was on business for Citibank and Lyman vacationing, both with their wives.

Joan Weider, widow of one of the most intrepid adventure travelers in our class, Dudley Weider, has been doing some traveling closer to home in the Hanover area. She writes, "For the past three years our family has had a Weider riders team in the Prouty Century Bike Ride and Challenge Walk benefiting the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Dud started riding the 100-mile loop in 1982 when it started. I rode 25 miles for the first time in 2005 and our son, daughter, their spouses and the four grandchildren, with other friends and relatives, all rode either the 100-, 50- or 25-mile loop. We are very grateful for the support many of our classmates have made by riding, walking or donating to this very worthwhile event."

Gail Warden and Dick Levy have received significant honors: Gail named by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to serve on a two-year commission to explore ways to improve American health care, Dick named one of three recipients of the 2008 Silicon Valley Exemplary Community Leadership Award. With our 50th reunion just two years away, Phil Kron has asked me to put together another book of "musings," the reminiscences of classmates. Bob Boye, who ably compiled the first two, 25 and 40 years out, did not want to do it a third time.

This project is now being launched, and I'm hopeful of achieving full participation by the approximately 700 living classmates and many widows of others.

Also, briefly, if they wish, they could make two or three predictions for the next 50 years, technologically, climatically, for posterity. Widows can write about their husbands and their marriages. Photographs desired, of course.

Forward me your contributions by mail or e-mail at the addresses below. Suggestions also welcome.I'm excited about the project, and hope you will be, too.

5522 Nagle Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA 91401; (818) 994-9231 (phone and fax); kennethireich@yahoo.com