1966

1966

Mary and Brad Stein, our tireless travel chairman, led a contingent of classmates on a magnifique weeklong Seine River cruise this spring. Betsy and Tom Brady, Penny and Jeff Gilbert, Judy and Tom Hoober, Mary and Mike McConnell. Laurel and Rick Miller, Linda and Bob Spence, Kathy O’Sullivan and Jack Young, and Sherrie and Neal Zimmerman visited the Normandy D-Day beaches, Monet’s gardens, Paris cafes, and more.

San Francisco-based Bob Page continues to provide consulting services to developing and transitioning societies to help them create sustainable government and justice systems. He and Grace are also consulting with their senior high school son about college. Even after a knee replacement, Bob was the oldest competitor to complete the Donner Lake Sprint Triathlon in July.

Many of us have been cleaning out our homes, but not quite like Dick Sheaff. “I’ve reached a time when it feels right to start getting rid of a lifetime accumulation of stuff,” Dick writes. So he donated his collection of 26,000 vintage ephemera to Letterform Archive. His 1,600-book library and a rocks and minerals collection will be next. As a practicing designer, Sheaff was directly inspired by his own collection, incorporating many items into the more than 500 stamps he art directed or designed during the decades for the U.S. Postal Service.

Tom Hoober—a realtor in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for decades—reports he is “keeping out of trouble” playing pickleball, hiking and biking; volunteering to match fellow Presbyterians and Rotarians with Zoe International, a child rescue organization; and planning cross-country skiing trips in Canada and ziplining in the Rockies.

The indefatigable Ken Meyercord has just published a book aptly titled 112 Ways toAlienate Most Everybody (on Amazon), a collection of 112 short essays he has published on his blog— kiaskblog.wordpress.com—during the past six years. Ken offers his well-researched iconoclastic views on key issues domestic, foreign and global. He’ll keep you thinking and wondering.

Belated sympathies to the family and friends of my soccer teammate and climate change educator George Ropes, who passed in July 2022. —Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com