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Rumor – and fact! – has it that this is the year in which most 71ers turn 60. In honor of that fact, our Reunion was mildly transformed into a birthday celebration of sorts.
More specifically, the dinner at Prospect on Saturday night was marked by several celebratory touches. There was a gift bag for each classmate, including a bag of specially marked candies; a “Happy Birthday” rendition from Shere Khan, the campus a capella group that has serenaded us at recent class events; and a CD giveaway of rock and pop tunes, many of them totems of our generation, put together by TOM LEUNER.
But the dinner was just the final capstone to a terrific Saturday that saw the campus decked out in its spring finery, with bright blue skies and some puffy clouds overhead.
Our functions went off without a hitch, from the lunch at Chancellor Green, the P-rade (once again having to endure a snarky “Old Guard” locomotive from ’72), and a terrific cocktail reception and then the dinner, both at Prospect. Fully deserving of the locomotives they got were Reunion Chair GARY WALSH and Vice Chair JACK HITTSON, ably assisted by wives Bern and Ronnie.
Making it back were more than 40 classmates, with wives and a few children (and even some grandchildren). Many were regular reunion-goers, with several others coming for a son or daughter’s graduation, including DICK MORGAN from Florida. Far-flung attendees included RICH NEILL, who came from San Francisco; the longest distance award surely went to reunion regular MARK MAZO, who flew in from his office in Abu Dhabi.
At the P-rade, classmates sported new, spiffy white ballcaps with an interlocking tiger tail logo and the “Savor 60” message on the back. If there were fewer people at the Reunion overall or some worries that the recession would put a damper on turnout or the alumni spirit, it was mighty hard to detect, especially as huge reunion classes like the 25th and the 50th sauntered past.
Signed in or seen on Saturday (with apologies to anyone missed and excluding those already cited): LEWIS, MOLONY, HOLLINGSWORTH, J. MARSHALL, LYNCH, CIESLAK, RICKERSON, CHARAPKO, USAS, STANCZAK, HESS, D. WILLIAMS, R. WILLIAMS, S. MCADOO, McCARTER, MUMFORD, PITNEY, EPSTEIN, PITTMAN, CHAMBERLAIN, DiFIDELE, METZGER, LYON, TEEGARDEN, HOLOCZYK, SNOW, HOLMER, MUTHER, PIKE, SUNG, PFLAUMER, GOOD, HARMAR, OLLWERTHER, BLACKBURN, LEPORE, LILLIE, LINDSEY, LIDDELL, LOWENSTEIN, AND McGINNIS
Like most off-year reunions, with their smaller attendance, this one presented ample opportunities to talk in depth with classmates and truly catch up on both big and small events in their lives. Those who have come back only for the majors might find that one of these smaller events is in some ways just as memorable.
-- Jeff Marshall ’71, Class Secretary and PR Czar
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