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always a lot of fun. RAY BEECH, who, as many of you know, rarely misses a major Trinity athletic event either home or away, was there (I guess because he heard it was a kickoff of some sort). I told him that my secret sources told me that he and BOBBY JOHNSON were even.seen in Brunswick for the annual "Beat up on the Bowdoin Polar Bears Day" a few weeks prior. Also at the dinner was PETE STRASSER whose business seems to be doing well. His company recently acquired a former competitor so everything sounds good from that standpoint. At our table was a healthy-looking and well tanned TIM BAUM. It was fun to catch up. He continues to pe a leading art dealer in New York and it obviously appeals to him. BOB PEDEMONTI was there, of course. He's at all of these events where the big bucks are spent and hopefully collected! The food was good, the entertainment and speeches (led ~y Evan) were, as usual, impressive, the ambience spectacular, and the crowd, of course, was unequaled. There was at least one (only now is it funny) sidebar to the evening... ED CIMILLUCA and his wife, Carol, frequenters of many Trinity gatherings, were also there. In fact, my wife, Barbara, and Carol drove in together. What they did not realize when they selected a stall for their wheels is that they had inadvertently set a new intercollegiate high-priced parking record ... to be discovered by their husbands a couple of hours later. For two hours and 45 minutes these two wonderfulladies from the suburbs were able to find a garage that charged us $50 to keep our wheels under wrap! Aaagh, it's getting close to "get out of Dodge time" for this kid. You should have seen (and heard) Ed's and my high-pitched and unanimous, reaction when the garage attendant said to us "fiddy dollaws." It almost made it worth it. His two-dollar tip somehow seemed small to him! All through the ride home not three minutes went by without one of the four of us screaming in midsentence ... "FIFTY DOLLARS?" You had to be there. I received a nice note from GORDON MARTIN the other day. Gordon was with our class for a couple of years and is an official member of the Class of '60 although he did what a lot of us should have done and that is take a leave of absence and return to graduate a couple of years later. He's living in Connecticut and it was nice to hear from him. SKIP MORSE and I had a chance to catch up recently. We had a really good talk and it was won-
derful to hear that his new venture is going great guns. For those of you who don't know, Skip has been a marketing guru in a number of business segments for most of his working life and in the last few years had been setting up his own company. Most of his work, and it seemed to me all of his passion, is focused on health care and he is up to his eyes in product development, strategic consulting and promotional work for a few of the major manufacturers and providers. Exciting stuff. Good work, Skipper. He also told me that one of this summer's highlights was attending CURT SCRIBNER's daughter (ANNE)'s wedding in Portland. Anne is a Trinity graduate, of course, Class of '87, so the group sang a few bars of '"Neath the Elms" before they departed. She married a Scotsman and changed her name to Hopkins and they both reach at Shady Hill School in Cambridge. Skip tells me that among the old Bantam guard there was GEORGE RAYNOR and BOB SWIFT, along with the father of the bride and Skip, of course. I can only assume that Anne had a big bunch of Bantams there to witness the event. BOBBY LANGEN is still at it -in the money game in Hartford. Like so many of us, he and Tory are looking at the next few years and are trying to figure out the best game plan for themselves. They are in the process of building a new home in Charleston and that tells me at least one thing... they're getting tired of the cold! He did have one very good piece of news to give me and that is that he is now the proud grandfather of a little boy from daughter, Sara, who is living in Charleston. Hmmmm, now the location of the new manse makes even more sense. Just got some more news from BARRY ROYDEN. You may recall that in our last Reporter, I mentioned his plans as they were understood and communicated to me by SAKI GREENWALD. Well, I received a nice, chatty letter from Bany last week where he basically confirms Saki's information and gives a little more specificity to the next years in the Royden family. He is planning on stepping down from the C.I.A. in a couple of years and hopes to both teach and coach at the college level. My bet is that his plan is a "slam dunk" and further, I think he'll be a superstar at both, don't you? By the way, does anyone other than me remember that Barry knew more about rock 'n roll than any other living human being while at Trinity. I wonder if there is a college course in that discipline? Barry, don't show this to your kids!
Barry's wife, Brenda, received her master's whi le they were in Bangkok and is likely to keep at it and go for her Ph.D. in Washington. Some of you know that the Roydens have quite a family. Amy has graduated from Harvard Law and is working as an environmental lawyer in the Department of Energy. Lisa works at the National Transportation Safety Board. Daughter number three, Sarah, just graduated from Radford University and is working in Washington; number four, Michelle, is a seventh grader; number five, Suzanne, is a (gulp) second grader; and, Ta Da, number six, a boy, Jonathan is tearing up the soccer field and is currently in first grade. And this man's thinking of retiring?! In closing, let me again urge each of you to write to me at home or call me to bring me and your friends and classmates up-to-date on your whereabouts, kids, trips, health, hobbies or just about anything else that is on your mind. And most of all, please stay health and happy. Richard W. Stockton 121 Whittredge Rd. Summit, N.J. 07901 fax: 212-499-3563 Class Agents: George P. Kroh Curtis M. Scribner
Another Homecoming, another successful dinner planned by BILL KAHL and VIN STEMPIEN. Congratulations. Kudos, too, to BOB WOODWARD, whose Hunter Thompsonesque Chronicles continue to draw praise. We await his Fear and Loathing on the Reunion Trail to mark our 40th. Some phonarhoning has elicited these factoids: DOUG FITZSIMMONS says his recent retirement from Mobil Oil has given him a new lease on life; he's president of the board of Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral Choral Society. RON CAREB has also retired, from the Norwich, Conn. school system. Meanwhile, some of us are still toiling. CHARLIE KIMBALL is painting houses on Cape Cod, while finishing his second novel. PAUL COCHRAN is senior vice president of human resources at Chiran Diagnostics. LEON SHAW is running his own printing consultancy. ARTHUR GREGG continues to head the major gifts solicitation program at the University of North Carolina.
DICK BRIGHTMAN is head of the pulmonary department at Scripps Hospital, San Diego State University. And RICK BOARDMAN has been named executive vice president and general counsel for Rhone-Poulenc, Inc., the American subsidiary of the French chemical and pharmaceuticals company. JOHN ROMIG seems to have the best of both worlds - income and leisure time. While continuing at Muzak, he and his wife have traveled to Mexico, and to Hong Kong on a Trinity-sponsored tour, and have built a home on Bonita Bay, Fla. At work or play, please keep the news commg. William Kirtz 26 'W)rrnan St. Newton, Mass. 02168 e-mail: William=Kirtzo/oFaculty%JRN @n unet.neu.edu Class Agents: William P. Kahl Edward P. Seibert Vincent R. Stempien
Reunion '97: June S.B
Keep in mind our 35th Reunion, June 5-8, next year. It will be upon us before we know it. BOB HOPKINS reports that he and his wife, Ellie, have moved to Palm Coast, Fla. to escape the Baltimore winters. Bob retired from the Signet Trust Company in Baltimore at the end of 1994. Bob says "Hi" to all members of the Jesters and WRTC. JOHN DENSEM moved to a new job a little over a year ago. He is in charge of data warehousing for the California Casualty Company in San Mateo, Calif John lives in Danville, Calif GEORGE WILL spoke at Trinity on Sept. 10. His lecture kicked off a Trinity sponsored symposium entitled "Picking a President, the Voters, the Parties, the Issues." George also met with Professor JACK CHATFIELD '64's seminar students, who are reading his 1993 book entitled Restoration. CHARLIE DIETRICH reports that he is a mathematics teacher at Greens Farms Academy in Connecticut. He is very excited about coauthoring, with two 14 year-old students, a mathematics paper on new techniques for construction. The paper will be published in "The Mathematics Teacher," a scholarly joun1al on secondary education. BILL GRAVES is one of several New Jersey deputy attorney gener-