Class of '71 News:

Yale Weekend 2011

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The weather was fine: temperature in the low 60s, a few wind swirls but not the all-too-common pouring-down rain and gloom often seen for the game. The crowd of 10,071 filed into Princeton Stadium for the kickoff, with different expectations: Yale hoping a Harvard loss to Penn, coupled with a win over the Tigers would give Eli a shot at the Ivy League title at home versus the Crimson the next week; Princeton striving for respectability in an otherwise dismal season. Yale’s 11.5 yards per pass play outdid Princeton’s efficient run game led by the brilliant freshman Dibilio. Tigers played catch-up the last 3 quarters eventually falling 33-24. The Class of 1971, undaunted by the football game, enjoyed one of its most vibrant Big 3 receptions ever. This year marked the 22nd year of these annual Class-wide gatherings. The setting was the newly refurbished Tiger Inn, the 20+-year host of 71’s fall gathering in Princeton. TI spent $6.6M updating the 116-year-old facility (the Club is also celebrating its 122nd year of operations), including ramps and an elevator that made the building totally accessible. The efforts of TI’s 1971 Section were critical to the success of the project, with 100% of its members contributing to TI’s Capital Campaign, led by the indomitable Stu Rickerson. Class efforts were recognized in the naming of the host room, “Class of 1971 - Rickerson Library”. Attending the fabulous Section dinner on Friday night, in the renamed Library were: McNab, Harmon, S. Alexander, Brodbeck, G. Smith, Bo Hunter, Sollis, Twomey, Hauck, Ade, Potts and Rickerson. The Class of 1971 - Rickerson Library was the site for the class reception on Saturday, starting at 3 pm. Everyone entered under a 1971 class banner. The open bar and “heavy hors d’oeuvres” stimulated lively discussions and interchange, which continued well into the evening. In addition to TI’s ‘71 Friday night diners, attendees included: Hittson, Liddell, Zien, Wally Hess, Jack Hess, McCarter, Chambliss, Waugh, DiFidele, Podie Lynch, L. Coleman, Mazo, Weigel, Ham, Winant, and McAdoo. Spouses, children, family guests and members from adjoining classes swelled the crowd, but the far more capacious TI took everyone in without serious congestion on the upper floors. All agreed it was the best attended 1971 Big 3 reception in years. Bob Belsky, chef and manager of TI, and his superb staff did a great job catering the event. Our thanks go out to all of them in making our reception so successful.

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Tom Hart's Amazon Adventure

Friday, April 08, 2011

Well me boyos --   Unaccustomed as I am to environments without sidewalks,  I broke down a couple of weeks ago and did the 8-day river/jungle tour to Mt. Kasikasima, about 50 miles from the Brazil border in deepest south suriname.  I was sort of forced into it by the visit of my cousin Janet (Swarthmore '70) and her friend Dorrit.  (NB our ONLY visitors to Suriname)   We flew over the rainforest (which looks like a giant head of broccoli from the air) down to the confluence of the Tapanahony and Palemeu rivers, to the Palemeu lodge and base camp,  whence we took motorized dugout canoes the next day, all day, up to the Kasikasima bush caMP.  Lots of rapids, including 'Tronbaka' ('turn back' in the Sranan creole) where we had to unload everything and portage it over a hill to put into another canoe above.    We climbed 700 meters (= about seven pints) up Mt Kasikasima, a stiff hike, OK going up but that left my going-down muscles on the top of my thighs paralyzed.  Also it poured rain on the way back, turning the rudimentary, already slippery path into a creek.  Raingear soaked through promptly.   Conditions at the bush camp: primitive.  We all (three in our group plus five misc. Dutch) slept in hammocks (not as bad as I thought) in a single open-sided thatched structure,  no privacy,  no washing facilities -- would go to the stream with a bar of soap and bathinbg suit to wash off the sweat and grime. Oddity:  NO mosquitoes, tho a lot of chiggers, ticks etc.   Good guide, a black 'Maroon' (pictured) who handled verybody well with good humor, spoke all languages, and was great on the birds, trees, plants, medicines, etc etc.  Also had four Wayana Indians along: two boatmen, another guide, and a cook. You don't see big animals in the rain forest, tho -- those panthers, tapirs, etc stay hidden.  A dutch guy   had a great camera and I will send some bird etc pics when he sends them to me.  Do note the large 'Brazilian wanderer' spider found in our sleeping area, though -- the world's most poisonous spider.  We ate pirhana, rather than v-v.   The air trip back was hairy since the rain had turned the grass airstrip at Palemeu to mud and the fully loaded single-engine Cessna was really thrashing thorugh the muck and water to lift off.  They closed the strip later that day.    All in all not my cup of tea but a valuable and interesting experience, certainly enough tropical rainforest to last me the rest of my young days.    Knobs

Monday, March 21, 2011

Class of 1971 Quartet to Perform at Reunions



The Class of 1971 Quartet was formed during the fall of our junior year, 1969. Its members are Ernest D. B. Pittman (first tenor), Robby Haines (Second Tenor), Russell Baker (Baritone), and David Chamberlain (bass).


The Quartet will be performing three times for the Class over the weekend. The first performance will be at our Memorial Service at 1:00 PM on Friday at the University Chapel. The second performance will be during our Saturday cocktail party at the Art Museum. The third and final performance will be during our Sunday brunch at the Boathouse. They are an act you shouldn’t miss, so mark them on your calendar.


The formation of the Quartet came about as they were four Footnotes from the same class who happened to represent all four vocal harmony parts... a rare coincidence that they could not resist. As a quartet this group has performed continuously since 1969 despite some sporadic interludes, and they have developed a repertoire of over fifty songs. The music originally paralleled the Footnote repertoire, and has expanded to include original material, pop tunes and jazz ballads.


So take some time during Reunions to enjoy the harmonious sounds of The Class of 1971 Quartet. It’s a unique opportunity, as we are told by University pundits that our class may be the only one with its own a cappella quartet!

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Class of 1971 40th Reunion May 26-29, 2011 40th Attendance Record is Within our Reach!

Dear Classmate: Early registration was an outstanding success! Over 195 classmates have already signed up through March 3rd to be “Back to the Best Damn Place of All” over the weekend of May 26-29, 2011. We have a great chance of being the best attended 40th ever, as we need just 90 or more classmates to register to achieve that milestone. All we are missing is some of you! So won’t you register for your 40th today? It’s easy; just use the button “Pay for Registration Online Click Here”, then use the link “Register for Reunions” on the left hand side of the Reunions Home Page to go to the registration section. Enter your personal information, make your selections, and choose to pay by check or by PayPal. It’s that simple. Regardless of whether 1971 tops the attendance record, we can promise you the best 40th Reunion ever! It will be a wonderful weekend that is jam packed with loads of activities. But the best part of Reunions is getting back to see old friends. And the more classmates that come back, the merrier the Reunion will be. And it all starts with you signing up now! Then once you have registered, contact your friends, roommates, teammates, and clubmates and get them to come back too! You can see who is already signed up by using the link “Who Is Coming Back” on the left hand side of 40th Reunion Home Page to see the list of paid registrants. If the person you want to see at Reunions isn’t on that list, email them or better yet get on the phone and call them to come back too! I’m sure they will be happy to hear from you. Don’t worry if you don’t have their current contact information. Just email jack.hittson@gmail.com to request it, and he will send you their phone and email address if he has it. See you in Princeton over the weekend of May 26-29!

Gary Walsh Reunions Chair Gary@pu71.org

Jack Hittson Reunions Vice-chair jack.hittson@gmail.com

Sunday, February 27, 2011

In late December, the Class of 1971 Executive Committee approved a new set of bylaws for the class, leaning on the resources of the Alumni Association and other similar 501c3 organizations. This nominating committee established under these bylaws was approved by the executive committee in late January and convened by conference call in the following weeks to discuss and review candidates for the major elected class officer positions: president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. The committee members were: Bill Stewart, Jamie Pitney, Tina Sung, Jeff Marshall and Luther Munford.

As of a result of its work, the committee has established the following slate for class officers, to be voted on at the 40th Reunion at the end of May:

President: Podie Lynch
Vice President – Kirk Liddell
Secretary – Mark Swanson
Treasurer – Howard Zien


The executive committee will be discussing how best to establish a fair and comprehensive balloting procedure, especially for those classmates who are not planning to attend the Reunion.

As a reminder, alternate candidates can be advanced if at least 5 percent of classmates are named on a petition supporting his or her candidacy. Such petitions must be presented at least 45 days before the Reunion.

Respectfully,

Jeffrey Marshall
Class of 1971 Secretary

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Rooms are now available at the Doubletree hotel on Friday and Saturday night of Reunions at the rate of $249 per night. These rooms were originally booked by the 5th Reunion and they no longer need them so they have offered them up for our class. This room rate is particularly good for families, because each room includes two queen beds and permits up to four people in a room.

The direct link for booking the block room rate is
http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/PCTDTDT-C06-20110527/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG

You may also receive this rate by calling the Doubletree at 609-452-2400 and asking for the Class of 2006 room block. All rooms should be reserved by individuals with their own credit cards.

Thanks to the 5th Reunion for making this additional housing option available. And after you book your hotel don’t forget to Register for the 40th.

Registering is easy, just sign up online at http://www.princeton1971.org/40th/index.asp. Click on the “Pay for Registration On Line” icon which takes you to the 40th Reunion Home Page. Then use the links on the left hand side to go to the registration page. You have the option to pay by check or by PayPal. It’s your choice. We would prefer that you sign up via snail mail and check as the class then will avoid the 3% PayPal fee, but the most important action is to register! If you register by mail we will honor early discount pricing on all registrations postmarked by February 15.

We can promise the 40th Reunion will be a wonderful weekend that is jam packed with loads of activities. But the best part of Reunions is getting back to see old friends. And the more classmates that come back, the merrier the Reunion will be. It all starts with you signing up now. Then once you have registered, contact your friends and get them to come back too! You can see who is already signed up by going to our 40th Reunion Home Page and using the link “Who Is Coming Back” to see the list of paid registrants.

So REGISTER NOW and join the 1971 crowd for a fantastic time in Princeton over the weekend of May 26-29. The prices and value will never be better. See you there!

Gary Walsh Reunions Chair Gary@pu71.org

Jack Hittson Reunions Vice-chair jack.hittson@gmail.com

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

By a vote on Jan. 25, the Class of 1971 Management Committee has unanimously selected a Nominating Committee that will develop a slate of class officer candidates for the five years beginning at our 40th Reunion. The five members of the committee are: Bill Stewart, Tina Sung, Jamie Pitney, Luther Munford and Jeff Marshall.

The Nominating Committee is charged with nominating at least one candidate for each of the four elected offices for the class: president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. Those names are to be given to the current secretary at least 90 days before the upcoming Reunion; the secretary then must report the names of all the candidates to the general class membership at least 75 days before the Reunion.

The secretary is required at least 30 days prior to the Reunion to mail ballots to all members of the class so that those ballots can be returned no later than 3 pm on the annual meeting date by those classmates who are not attending reunions or otherwise will not by submitting the ballots in person. A vote on the slate will then take place at the Reunion in a class meeting.

Other nominations may be made by a submission to the secretary, in writing, of not less than 5 percent of the regular class members, to be delivered no less than 45 days prior to the class meeting.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

We are investigating the possibility of a Class of 1971 Golf Tournament to be held Friday of reunions weekend. Due to limited options, we are requesting an indication of interest from the Class as to how many golfing members we might have if we can put together an event. The University and/or the Golf Team puts on an event at Springdale which appears to be limited to a total participation of 100 people with a noon shotgun start and a fee of $200. We can also investigate whether we could book a few tee times at other local courses. If you are interested in playing golf on the Friday of reunions, please send an email to me at TLEUNER@NEGD.NET indicating how many people in your party would play and would you consider off site golf if we can't get enough spots in the Springdale Tournament. A quick response will give us more time to evaluate our options.

Thank you.

Tom Leuner
40th Reunion Golf Chairman

Saturday, January 15, 2011

From: ELMIRAMIKE@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 5:54 PM
To: secretary@pu71.org, jeff@jjmarshall.org
Subject: Mike Epstein '71


Dear Jeff,

I'm writing with the sad news that my husband, Mike Epstein '71, died on Thursday, January 6. They found a tumor on his intestine on December 16; it was a rare, very aggressive form of cancer. I have just confirmed the dates and locations of the services, one of which will be in Princeton; I copied the information into this e-mail. I thought you might want to e-mail information about the services to the Class in case any classmates would like to come. I would like to work with you on the memorial for the PAW, but need to take care of the rest of the arrangements for the services before I can focus on that. Perhaps we can discuss it the week of January 24. Thanks.

Carol Obertubbesing '73

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Given how scattered our family and friends are - not just around the country, but around the world, including places such as Australia and Dubai - I am planning three services to honor Mike. Please come to any or all of the services to share your memories of Mike. The Celebration of Mike's Life in Chicago will be on Saturday, February 5, at 2 p.m., at the Sherwood Conservatory of Music, 1312 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago; a reception will follow. Mike served on the board of the school (Ramsay Lewis is among the former students) for many years. This community music school, now part of Columbia College Chicago, is 1½ blocks south of Roosevelt Road; there is metered street parking as well as pay lots. It is 3½ blocks from the Roosevelt CTA Station (Orange, Red, and Green lines), and 2 blocks south of the Metra Electric Station. CTA buses #1, 3X, and 4 stop in front of the school.

There will also be a Celebration of Mike's Life on Saturday, January 22, at Noon at Colonial Club, 40 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, New Jersey. Mike and I were members of Colonial Club while we were students at Princeton, we had our wedding reception there, and we always returned there during Reunions, football games, and other alumni activities. There is metered street parking, a lot further down Prospect Avenue near Olden Street, and pay lots in the center of Princeton (about a 10-minute walk from Colonial).

There will be a Celebration in Boston on Saturday, February 12, at 11 a.m., at the Paulist Center, 5 Park Street, in downtown Boston. We lived in Boston for 17 years and, although Mike was not Catholic, we met many dear friends through the Paulist Center. Some of those friends will sing at the service. The Paulist Center is across the street from the Park Street subway station; North and South stations are just a couple subway stops away; if you're coming from the airport, you can take a cab downtown or take the Blue Line Inbound to the Government Center stop, which is about a 10-minute walk from Park Street; there are pay lots in the area.

Receptions will follow each of the services. You are welcome to attend any or all of the services, but please RSVP to me at elmiramike@aol.com so I can order the appropriate amount of food. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me or call me at 312-527-1953.

If anyone would like to make a donation in his memory, please contribute to one of the following organizations or a charity of your choice:

Sherwood Conservatory of Music
1312 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
Web site: www.colum.edu/sherwood; phone: 312-369-3100
Please make checks payable to Sherwood Conservatory of Music or give online


Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36104
Web site: www.splcenter.org; phone #: 888-414-7752 (M-F 8:30-4:30 CST)
Please make checks payable to Southern Poverty Law Center or give online


Woodstock Folk Festival
P.O. Box 1628, Woodstock, IL 60098
Web site: www.woodstockfolkfestival.org; for questions, call me 312-527-1953
Please make checks payable to Woodstock Folk Festival


Princeton in Chicago Schools
c/o Princeton Club of Chicago, P.O. Box 350, Kenilworth, IL 60043-0350
Web site: www.princetonclubofchicago.org; phone # 847-256-5800
Please make checks payable to Princeton Club of Chicago - PICS

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Class By-Laws are the specific practices and procedures that are to be used to govern and operate the affairs of the Class of 1971 under its Constitution. The current Class Constitution was adopted in our 14th alumni year after the University gained Federal 501c3 status for all alumni classes, assuming each class agreed to that statue’s restrictions (such as conducting no political activity, etc.). Since then, we have been governing and operating the class within those guidelines and by an informal set of procedures based on past practices.

After numerous discussions by the current Executive Committee, it was agreed that it would be better for the Class to have a formal set of By-Laws to govern and operate its affairs. Of particular interest was that it was believed that a formal procedure to nominate and elect future Class officers was required.

Gary Walsh, our Reunion Chair and a practicing attorney lo these many years, took on that project and generated a comprehensive set of By-Laws, leaning on the resources of the Alumni Association and other similar 501c3 organizations. The Executive Committee felt Gary did a terrific job in creating this document, and in late December approved it as the foundation of how we govern and operate the Class (use this link to view these By-Laws).

Following the approval, we ask all class members to take on three actions:

• Review the new By-Laws and provide any feedback to the Executive Committee on how you believe they can be modified for the better. Send these responses to our President (Bill@pu71.org), our Secretary (Jeff@pu71.org), or Gary Walsh (Gary@pu71.org). The Executive Committee will take these suggestions under advisement and will adopt those deemed appropriate.
• Provide to our President Bill@pu71.org any suggested names for members of the Nominating Committee. This suggestion could include volunteering yourself to this position.
• Provide to the Class Secretary Jeff@pu71.org any suggestions as to who you believe would be an excellent candidate for the four elected class offices. Jeff will forward these suggestions to the Nominating Committee.

As per the new By-Laws, the Class Secretary will notify the class of the names on the new class officer slate at least 75 days before the formal vote on that slate; the vote is scheduled to take place at the 40th Reunion.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Now that the Fall has brought out the brilliant foliage and the return of crisp and sunny days our thoughts might turn to football. And keeping with the season, the Class of 1971 has some terrific upcoming Big Three football events for all of us to enjoy.

Adding to the tradition of our annual reception at Tiger Inn (TI) after each fall’s home Big Three football game this season marks our fourth consecutive year that the Class of ’71 will have a reception at the away Big Three event. This year we meet Harvard at home (10/23) and Yale in New Haven (11/13)

• CLICK HERE to learn more about our annual reception at TI after the Harvard Game.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Dear Classmate,

As we begin the 2010-2011 academic year, we are reminded of our own time at Princeton many years ago. Ours was a class forged in a very different time, one that entered as an all-male class, and one that left, four years later, with women in its ranks. We also attended college at a time when the country, and our lives, experienced important changes. And now, with our 40th reunion fast approaching, we reflect and reminisce – and, most importantly, think about reconnecting in less than a year with our friends in the great Class of 1971.

One way to stay in touch as we head toward the 40th is to let your classmates know what’s going on in your lives. Please send any and all news about yourself and your family to Class Secretary Jeff Marshall at secretary@pu71.org. And if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact your class officers, whose emails I note below.

Of course, we hope that you and your family will return to campus May 26 – 29, 2011 for what promises to be the best 40th ever. Your classmates are already busy at work on your reunion, and we will be pleased to share with you what we are planning. (Please see the enclosed attachment from Reunions Chair Gary Walsh.)

Review of 2009-2010

But first, let me offer a brief review of the past year. Once again, and thanks to the outstanding work of Reunions co-chairs Gary Walsh and Jack Hittson, 45 classmates returned to campus in late May. We gathered at parties, over lunch outside Chancellor Green, at a wonderful reception (with entertainment by Shere Khan) and dinner at Prospect, and we marched in the P-rade. Funny, but it still seems to take us forever to fall into place at the P-rade, a bit of consolation for us in our seventh decade [did I say that?]. Classmates also gathered during the year at football games – notably at the Harvard and Yale games – as well as in cities across the country.

Members of the Class of 1971 continued to make important and meaningful contributions in ways that have benefited and will continue to benefit students, classmates, and alumni. These include the Class of 1971 Foundation, which offers a partial tuition scholarship; The Saving the Wild Life Fund (STWLF), which helps finance class activities and reunion entertainment; and the [more recent] 71 Legacy Initiative, which has been working to develop avenues for Princeton alumni to pursue second careers in the nonprofit sector. These projects would not be successful without the contributions of many classmates, among them Henry Barkhorn, Peter Charapko, Stu Rickerson, Bill Lewis, and David McI. Williams. We hope that you will consider participating in one or more of these efforts, and I encourage you to contact me for information on how to proceed.

Annual Giving and Class Dues

The Class of 1971 can be proud of its contribution to Annual Giving. We are profoundly grateful to Podie Lynch and Jon Cieslak for their efforts in leading a team of volunteers to contact classmates. Under their leadership and with your contributions, we achieved the goal of surpassing the 50% mark in class participation during the last campaign in fiscal year 2010. Thanks go to to them and to you, the members of the Class of 1971!

As we look toward our 40th reunion, please keep Princeton in your thoughts. Through your contributions, the University can continue to grow and to offer the best possible education and experience for undergraduates – anywhere! We are thrilled that our classmate, Dennis Burns, will take charge of a special gifts campaign and join Podie and Jon in seeking to achieve our goals during this important reunion year.

And, finally, thank you to all of you who continue, year after year, to pay your class dues. Our class enters the new fiscal year (FY11) on sound financial footing. Dues in fy10 met our goal of $5,000 for our 40th reunion yearbook. Your dues are important, as they fund class activities and cover other expenses, including the Princeton Alumni Weekly, all mailings, and class get-togethers at Reunions. It takes just a minute to fill out the enclosed form and mail in your check. Alternatively, and perhaps more easily, you can pay online at our class website, www.princeton1971.org. Thank you in advance from your class treasurer, Rich Hollingsworth, for timely submission of your dues.

Looking to the 40th Reunion!

We hope to see all of you at the 40th Reunion tent at Dodd-Brown courtyard in less than nine months. Gary Walsh and Jack Hittson, along with Stu Rickerson (on entertainment) and others, are working hard on the many details that go into planning this important event. Some of the groups to which we have danced in the past are expected to return. And, of course, there will be seminars and a host of other activities during the four-day gathering on campus. As class officers, we have been very pleasantly surprised by the reengagement of classmates, by those who stayed away for literally decades and are now reconnecting with the Class of 1971. We look forward to seeing everyone in May!

Reunions also provide us with an opportunity to welcome others into the 1971 family as honorary classmates. If you have anyone in mind, please contact me or another class officer. Finally, Reunions mark both the end and the beginning of five-year terms for class officers. Working with several classmates, Gary Walsh has added by-laws to our class constitution that pertain to the election of class officers. We expect to post those on the Website in the near future and ask for your approval.

So, stay in touch, plan on meeting classmates at Reunions in late May, or even sooner, at the October 23 Princeton-Harvard game (and at our customary post-game 1971 party at Tiger Inn).

Have a wonderful fall season.

With warmest regards.

Bill Lewis, President

Kathy Molony, Vice President

Monday, January 11, 2010

Dear fellow members of the Class of 1971:

Once again, the fall brings a series of mailings asking for all sorts of Princeton-related giving. These include letters and e-mails soliciting us for Class Dues, our Class of ’71 Foundation, the Saving the Wild Life Fund (STWLF), as well as university-wide requests for Annual Giving and, occasionally, the University’s capital requests. Of course, you can add to that gift requests from eating clubs, Friends organizations, as well as regional and other local Princeton organizations.

In this Treasurer’s letter, I’d like to focus primarily on class dues, though I’ll mention some of the other class-related areas where contributions continue to be important.

Class dues are our most critical need as a class. Our class runs on a fiscal year calendar starting July 1, so we are presently in the middle of fiscal year 2010. This year marks the fourth year of our tiered dues structure, which features the following giving levels: Old Nassau, $150; Patron, $125; Sustaining, $100; Regular, $71.Classmates giving at the Old Nassau and Patron levels qualify for a previous class Reunion shirt or Reunion cap, respectively; however, quantities in some sizes are limited.

While we’ve discovered that this dues program could indeed stimulate higher collections than in the past, in the aggregate, the participation levels from classmates have remained very low, averaging just over 20 percent of the class in all but major reunion years. I’d like to remind you that class dues are an individual classmate’s obligation to help fund class functions and the column in the PAW (which includes PAW subscription for all classmates). Classes pay for that column, not the university – and the expense runs over $11,000 a year. Additionally, we spend nearly $3,500 on class communications – such as mailing and the class website – and over $6,000 on class get-togethers open to all classmates (such as lunch before the P-rade).

Moreover, as we approach our 40th Reunion, we find that an elevated level of dues collections will be critical to fund important activities and events – first and foremost, the Class Yearbook for that reunion. We need to collect $5,000 more both this year and next to pay for the yearbook, which goes to all classmates, regardless of reunion attendance. We also will be using dues money to underwrite such expenses as the class memorial service and a breakfast for the women of ’71 – a big success at the 35th.

Dues are important, and there will be follow-up appeals later in the fiscal year. And while you may want to check with your personal tax advisor, dues are considered tax-deductible.

In addition to dues, the Saving the Wild Life fund (STWLF) and Class of 1971 Foundation continue to need financial support. Contributions to those two funds can be made at the same time as you pay your class dues.

As noted earlier, the class management team and I would like to build a substantial “fund” that we can use for conventional expenses like the PAW and to fund important upcoming class activities, like the 40th Reunion Yearbook. Dues collection and ensuring a stable funding base for class activities is simply is the biggest item on the Treasurer’s agenda.

If haven’t yet sent in your dues, please consider getting out your checkbook and writing a check payable to “Princeton – Class of 1971”. Simply mail it to me, Rich Hollingsworth, at 73 Bartlett Hill Road, Concord, MA, 01742, and if you’re an Old Nassau or Patron giver and would like to receive a shirt or hat, respectively, specify the size. If you’d prefer paying online, you can pay quickly through the Web-based Class Giving Portal by clicking the striped card facsimile on our Web site, www.princeton1971.org, and following the prompts.

Please note that our Web site will link you to PayPal, our credit card charging service. PayPal will offer you the choice of paying by credit card (lower left on the Web page) or using a PayPal account (lower right). If you want to use your credit card, simply look at the lower left, where it says “Don't have a PayPal account? Use your credit card or bank account (where available)” and select “continue.” If you have a PayPal account, you can use that instead.

If you’d like to also contribute to the STWLF and/or the ’71 Foundation, you can just specify how much in a brief note with your check, or, if paying by our Web site, make those selections when prompted.

Please feel free to contact Class President and Webmaster Bill Lewis ’71, or me at treasurer@pu71.org, if you encounter any problems.

Lastly, individual spam filters have impeded our ability to contact some of you. I’d ask you to please check your junk email folders periodically or put r_j_hollingsworth@msn.com into a “safe” list so that communications on dues and treasury issues don’t get filtered out.

Thanks, and happy holidays to you and your families!

Best regards,


Rich Hollingsworth '71

Treasurer – Class of 1971

Monday, December 14, 2009

Crew racing is one of the most physically taxing sports in existence, requiring tremendous stamina and exacting technique honed over months of training in and out of the water. Even for collegians, it’s a huge physical grind.

So what was a bunch of 60-year-olds, some of whom hadn’t been in a race for many years, doing at a regatta this past October – and a three-mile race at that? Not only that: They were the oldest rowers there, and it was their first race together as a team since our freshman year.

The story behind the Head of the American Race in Sacramento, Calif., is one of camaraderie, teamwork and the common bond of rowing together and going through Princeton some 40 years ago. It involves the members of the 1971 freshman crew team, who bonded in the 1967-68 year and have since gone their separate ways, as we all do; some went on to row on the varsity eight boat, but others left crew racing behind.

In the team photo, standing from left to right are: John Daake, MacNeill Watkins, Bob Barber, Karl Hofammann, Mike Ladra, Oz Bengur, Don Paxton, Rob Slocum; Kneeling, left to right: Bruce Beckner, Jay Paris, Ron Brachman and Bob Wetmore ’70.

They started coming together again in 2001, at our 30th reunion. As Oz Bengur recalls, a number of the group met down at the boathouse and reminisced about the times they had together, and most of the team gathered that fall for a memorial service for Steve Powers. Powers, a member of the freshman crew, was class president during our 25th Reunion and had passed away that summer. Those at the service then went out rowing, and have been gathering for a fall reunion every year since. Those reunions have taken them to venues around the country to row together, says Mac Watkins; last year they rowed in Washington, DC.

Rowing is one thing; racing is another. Watkins says that Rob Slocum, who lives in Connecticut and has compiled a tremendous competitive record as a single sculler in recent years, persuaded the group to enter the California race as a masters (over 50) team.

And from around the country they came: John Daake, Watkins, Bob Barber, Karl Hofammann, Mike Ladra, Bengur, Don Paxton, Slocum, Bruce Beckner, Jay Paris, Ron Brachman and Bob Wetmore ’70 (recruited because Jim Lieber ’71 was recuperating from a serious bicycle accident).

Not surprisingly, a few logistical issues had to be solved. There was training to do in the boat, and the boat itself, and the oars, had to be borrowed from a local rowing club, Watkins says. The team, along with several wives, ended up spending three days together, capped by the race, in which they finished third of eight boats on a handicap basis. Most of the competitors were rowing clubs from California.

In the race photo of the boat from the stern are: Cox Ron Brachman, Rob Slocum, Jay Paris, Bruce Beckner, Mike Ladra, Don Paxton, Bob Wetmore, Bob Barber and Oz Bengur.

“Somewhat remarkably, we did really well with just three days of training,” says Watkins. Individuals had done their own fitness programs in the months leading up to the race, though some had little or no opportunity to actually row. Every team needs a uniform, and the shirts they wore were designed by Mike Ladra and added a whimsical touch. They read: “Subprime Rowing Association – Oxygen Debt Our Specialty.” Says Bengur: “We were all the buzz, as we were the ‘oldest’ boat in that race.”

Watkins traces some of the team’s camaraderie to an intense freshman year with coach Steve Gladstone, who went on to become something of a coaching legend, with later stops at Brown, Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley.

Stories abound about college teams reuniting after many years; often, they are football teams remembering past glories 25, 30 or 50 years after the event. That a rowing group has been getting together year after year – especially after only one year together and many years apart – is something else again. The feeling was so good, the group later agreed, that they would do another race next year, location to be determined.

Watkins says that one huge asset these days is simply technology. “This wouldn’t have been possible without email,” he says. “That’s made a huge difference.”

Ultimately, he adds, what the freshman crew of 1971 has found is an irrefutable argument for the benefit of college athletics. “We find that we’re not getting acquainted; we’re catching up with each other,” Watkins says. “We’re all the same kind of people as we were back then, with some of the rough edges sanded down. We’re more relaxed about ourselves.”

Friday, September 11, 2009

Dear Fellow Members of the Princeton Class of 1971:

Re: The Fall 2009 President’s Letter to the Princeton Class of 1971

Once again, I hope you and your families enjoyed a great summer. As fall approaches, I want to bring you up to date on developments last year, review our 38th Reunion this past spring and alert you to various events we have lined up for the coming year.

Review of the Past Year

The past 12 months were tumultuous in the economy and on the political landscape, but the running of the Class went smoothly once again. Our system of using regular conference calls to discuss the full range of class activities among the class officer group continues to work well, and has been boosted by input from several former class officers. Our class hasn’t had the reputation for cohesion and annual giving that some have had – and that’s regrettable – but our officer group is dedicated, hard-working and has been very effective in coordinating events and communication.

Rich Hollingsworth, our Treasurer and de facto Chief Financial Officer, notes that our tiered dues initiative, which gives classmates a choice of giving levels, was once again successful in eliciting a range of donations. (Coincidentally, yes, there is a dues appeal in this envelope that we hope you’ll act on. There is more information on dues later in this letter as well.)

However, Reunions Vice Chair (and former class officer) Jack Hittson has done considerable research on our dues and annual giving trends, and they paint a somewhat unhappy picture. Our dues participation rate last year was just 21.9%, down from 27.3% four years ago. Each classmate has an obligation to help support the general class activities, and that is clearly not happening. I’m asking those who have not been giving to reconsider; dues, in particular, are a vital funding source for class functions, whether or not you attend them. Without fuller support, our 40th Reunion yearbook and other prospective benefits may not materialize. The University does NOT pay for these activities – we do!

Rich adds that in the last fiscal year, 173 classmates (of 789) contributed $18,200. Meanwhile, the class spent $11,400 on the Princeton Alumni Weekly, $3,500 on communications (mailing, website, etc.), and $6,200 on class get-togethers (like reunions cocktail party open to all classmates). Thus, we overspent by $2,900, leaving the class account at $5,000 at the end of the year. Rich argues that a lot of classmates don’t understand the essence of our finances – and I think he’s right.

Our receptions after the fall football games last year were perhaps not as well-attended as in years past – a sign of the economic hard times, maybe – but provided ample opportunity for those attending to see old friends. So, incidentally, has our individual 60th birthdays, which have been the occasion for a number of get-togethers among classmates. You’ll see evidence of that in a number of columns in the PAW this year.

Speaking of 60 – our 38th Reunion had a popular twist, doubling as a collective 60th birthday celebration. Reunion Chair Gary Walsh and co-chair Jack Hittson pulled off a terrific lunch, cocktail reception and dinner that offered a few mementos of the milestone most of all have passed (or will soon). A fuller report on the Reunion can be found on the Class Website, www.princeton1971.org.

Our Annual Giving effort, headed by Podie Lunch and Jon Cieslak, benefitted from a strong group of volunteer classmates but fell short of its monetary and participation goals in a very difficult fund-raising year. Podie notes that the Class raised $200,150 against a goal of $230,000, or 13% below our goal, and garnered 342 donors, for a participation Rate of 43.3%, well short of the goal of 50%. Moreover, we remain among the bottom five of ALL classes in terms of participation. Giving is a vote of confidence in Princeton, and a way of giving back for a priceless education. Unfortunately, too few of us have been willing to acknowledge the importance of such giving.

Podie adds that “we have struggled with our participation rate for some years and, despite early and strong efforts by the largest group of energetic volunteers we have had since the 30th, we needed more support from those Classmates who gave last year but not this."

Podie and Jon want to thank the following classmates for their help in trying to meet this past year’s goals: Henry Barkhorn, Oz Bengur, David Chamberlain, Skip Collins, Tom Crocker, Paul Flowerman, Jim Hart, Ellen Higgins, Jack Hittson, Joel Hoxie, Larry Joachim, Bill Lewis, Kathy Molony, Jamie Pitney, Michael Potter, Scott Rogers, Ned Scudder, Rob Slocum, Randy Snow, Bruce Sokler, Bill Stewart, Tina Sung, Steve Thompson and Bill Zwecker.

The Class of 1971 Foundation is ‘71’s longest-serving charitable entity. We are looking for renewed participation this year to continue funding of one-half undergraduate tuition scholarships (many have gone to children of the class.) Please send donations to Henry C. Barkhorn, Treasurer, 1095 Park Ave., New York NY 10128 or give online at www.Princeton1971.org.

Think about a contribution to The Save the Wildlife Fund (STWLF). Chaired by Stu Rickerson, the STWLF continues to help finance key class-wide activities – including our 1971 Reunions Luncheons and 1971 Receptions after the P-Rade, and the home Big Three game. You’ll see information about giving the STWLF on the Class Website.

The separate letter enclosed in this mailing will update you on our efforts to create the 71 Legacy Initiative (71LI). In this effort, we are working closely with Project 55, the highly successful and widely recognized non-profit that has been funding fellowships and internships for young Princetonians for many years. Please look through the letter and let me or David Williams know if you have any ideas, recommendations or would be interested in getting involved. We are in the process of organizing the program now. This really could be the biggest and most meaningful program our class may ever be involved with.

What Lies Ahead for 2009-10

Those old reliables, the fall football games, are once again an opportunity for classmates to get together – and root for the Tigers, of course. We hope to see as many classmates as possible at the Princeton-Harvard game, this year in Cambridge, on Oct. 24. Princeton Association of New England (PANE) is once again organizing a Tiger Tent extravaganza, and '71 plans to participate. For more information, please contact our Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Kathy Molony, at Kathy@pu71.org.

Three weeks later comes our annual class reception at the Tiger Inn Library, immediately following the Princeton-Yale football game on Saturday, Nov. 14. This event traditionally attracts the largest number of classmates outside of Reunions, and this year’s reception, like others that have preceded it, will include entertainment by one of Princeton’s outstanding a cappella singing groups.

As previously noted, Kathy Molony is spearheading an effort, together with other members of the management team, to reexamine the provisions of the Class of 1971 Constitution, the present form of which was adopted in 1985. This examination will recommend the best manner in which to memorialize procedures for the selection, election and appointment of class officers, the process for the filling of unexpired terms of offices of the class and other procedural requirements pertaining to the management of the Class of 1971. These recommendations will be forthcoming shortly and will be shared with the class.

Make a point of periodically checking out the ’71 Web site, which has news about upcoming and archived events and profiles of classmates written by our Secretary, Jeff Marshall. I’m proud of my role as class Webmaster, and I think you’ll find that the site easy to navigate. Please check it out at www.princeton1971.org.

Class Dues


Among other things, dues payments defray the costs of producing and mailing the Princeton Alumni Weekly. A special insert can be found in this letter describing our four (4)-tiered dues structure. The best way to avoid those annoying springtime notices and appeals, frankly, is to fill out the enclosed form and mail in your check! Please note that our base dues rate is $71. I’d ask you to consider writing a check or go to the Class Website and click on the orange-striped square and pay online – today!

And one last item…

Periodically, I find myself making an appeal to classmates to consider sending news about yourself and your family to Class Secretary Jeff Marshall at secretary@pu71.org. Jeff welcomes any and all contributions, and is especially interested in hearing from people who have not submitted any news in recent years.

And, if you have any questions or concerns that we in the class leadership group can help you with, please feel free to contact myself or other members of the team, who e-mail addresses are on the Class Website – www.princeton1971.org/contact/ .

Warmest regards to you and your families!


Bill Lewis '71



President – Princeton Class of 1971
Chairman – 71 Legacy Initiative

Thursday, September 10, 2009

" ... For many alumni, after years of a for-profit career, they are at a point of transition in their lives where they are considering more meaningful opportunities for giving back. While some are interested in a career change and others consider retirement, they may be unsure of what opportunities are available to them and how they can become involved.

At this critical point, the 71 Princeton Legacy Initiative (71LI) and Princeton Project 55 (PP55) recognize an opportunity to help connect alumni to nonprofit organizations who could greatly benefit from their talent, experience, and skills. Together, they are designing a project that actively engages Princeton alumni/ae of all ages, particularly those emerging from for-profit career experience, to consider and pursue meaningful opportunities in the nonprofit sector.

While the Class of ’71 brings leadership and energy to this joint vision, PP55 brings experience in the process of establishing a successful alumni-based nonprofit organization, an extended network of connections with nonprofit organizations seeking leadership, and access to committed volunteers active in a variety of cities, as well as access to funding sources and office space in Princeton. The following plan is intended as a proposal for that collaboration – a partnership between the 71LI and PP55. Both alumni groups recognize the need to leave the door open for involvement from other classes. In the following summary, the name “Encore Service Career (ESC) Program” will serve as a placeholder name for the proposed program ..."

• CLICK HERE to read the insert in the fall 2009 Class of 1971 President’s Letter reporting on the status of the 71LI and seeking volunteers.

• CLICK HERE to read the 09/08/09 communication to all re: the status of the 71LI / PP55 JV.

Monday, August 24, 2009

While the Fall Class President’s letter is still several weeks away, you can get a head-start on your dues payment by CLICKING on the orange Tiger striped-button on the Class of ’71 Web site.

This act will: a) help you avoid the ‘dinging’ letters from our Class Treasurer, Rich Hollingsworth; and b) help fill our Class coffers w/ much needed cash.

And what is this cash used for, you ask? Let me list but a few: The Princeton Alumni Weekly, our Annual Big Three reception both in Princeton and away, ‘Free Reunions’, our lunch and cocktail party at every Reunion, entertainment by some of the campuses ‘hottest’ singing groups each fall and spring, up-keep and maintenance of our Award-winning Web site and e-mail BLAST / ListServ. And … more!

more ...

Friday, August 21, 2009

"We look forward to our meeting on Tuesday, September 1 at 11:00 AM to plan a potential 71LI and PP55 joint venture. Because we are expecting as many as twelve attendees (some by phone, some in person) and because we are on a tight timeline, we want to be sure to use our time constructively. Please look through the attached agenda and prepare your thoughts. If you have questions or comments to share before the meeting, please reply to all on this email list.

The primary goal of this meeting is to leave with a well-designed program proposal to present to our respective Boards. This proposal should include measurable goals, and a firm timeline for how we plan to accomplish our joint venture in the pilot year ..."

more ...

Thursday, June 04, 2009

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

Friday, May 15, 2009

The location for Saturday’s *FREE* lunch has changed for this year. It will NOT be on the porch behind West College but has moved to Chancellor Green courtyard. For a map of the location please see the graphic below:



Class of 1971 Activities for Reunions 2009

11:30 – 1:30 -- Annual ’71 Class Lunch provided free for classmembers and friends. NEW location in Chancellor Green Courtyard.

2:00 – The one and only P-Rade. CLICK HERE to see ‘71’s place.

5:30 – Class cocktail party that launches at Prospect starting at 5:30. Shere Khan, one of the campus’ top a capella groups, will again be entertaining us at cocktails. This event is open to all members of the Class of ’71 and friends.

7:00 – Class Dinner at Prospect. To register and pay for dinner CLICK HERE.

To learn about other Reunions 2009 events on Saturday, May 30th, 2009 …. CLICK HERE!

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

For Alan Holmer ’71 and his wife, Joan *73, cystic fibrosis is a lot more than a title on an appeal envelope that comes once a year. It’s a disease they’ve lived with for almost 30 years, since both of their children – now in their late 20s – have had it since birth.

“It’s one of the ‘orphan diseases,’” says Alan, and carries a life expectancy of just 37. That’s considerably higher than it was a generation ago, when it was only 18. Those with the disease gradually lose lung function when a defective gene causes mucus and related secretions to become thick and sticky. These secretions plug up tubes, ducts and passageways, especially in the pancreas and lungs, and victims generally die of respiratory failure or related problems. Essentially, patients suffocate to death; imagine contemplating that for your child.

The Holmers have been actively involved with CF fund-raising for many years, and Alan is the chair for the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The couple has also co-chaired a charity tennis tournament for over two decades, drawing political figures from Congress and the Administration; that event now raises $375,000 a year.

Right now, the Holmers are seeking to raise $40,000 through friends and others this spring – a goal that was raised sharply from $10,000 not long ago. “Our first major initiative is the Foundation's walk program -- Great Strides. Great Strides is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's largest national fundraising event,” Alan says, noting that it raised $37 million around the country last year (see Web address at bottom for more information).

“Money buys science, and science will buy a cure,” Alan says. “We are so close ... life expectancy has increased 15 years in the past 25, and medicines are in final human clinical trials that are likely to be disease-altering.” He’s on the board of one company, Inspire Pharmaceuticals in Durham, N.C., that is developing a drug, denufosol, that is in its final Phase 3 human clinical trials.

Their son, Scott, 29, is in a seminary in Washington, preparing to become a Catholic priest, and daughter Joy, 26, is a social worker in central Virginia and getting married in the fall. While their health is good, the Holmers say maintaining good lung function gets more challenging for them with each passing year. Alan says, “It’s a struggle for them every day, but they rarely complain.” Both have their lung function tested four times each year at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

“Researchers are on the cusp of treating both symptoms and the root causes of the disease. When that day comes, patients should be able to live a relatively normal life span. That’s been our dream for the past 29 years.”

Joan notes that CF is often a sad case of meeting high odds. One in 20 adults in the U.S. carry the gene, and it can be passed onto their children only if both parents have it. Even at that, only one in four children of the carriers contract the disease, and no more than 30,000 people in this country have it. The gene itself was identified only in 1989, a decade after their son was born.

Interestingly, Alan compares the CF Foundation to a small venture capital firm – a description that seems odd for a national charity. But he says that 95 percent of the money raised from the Great Strides walk will go directly to research, often doled out as seed money for small but promising biotech firms. One of the primary medications in use now, pulmozyme, was developed by biotech giant Genentech in the 1990s. Genentech is headed by CEO Art Levinson *77.

Another Princetonian, Frank Deford ’61, wrote movingly of his daughter Alex’s struggles with the disease, which killed her at age 8 back in 1980. Medications developed since then – and others still in development – harbor a lot of promise, the Holmers say. But developing new drugs is a long and costly enterprise, fraught with risk, and money remains the primary lubricant for the system.

The Holmers ask classmates to consider going to their team website and making a donation for their cause: www.cff.org/Great_Strides/AlanHolmer. Other contact information: Alan Holmer 7714 Falstaff Court McLean, VA 22102 703-356-1675 (office) 703-893-5438 (fax) 703-850-3939 (mobile) 703-356-5263 (home) 540-972-1986 (Lake of the Woods) alanholmer@yahoo.com.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

That unique annual rite of Spring is close upon us ... Princeton Reunions! Believe it or not, we will be celebrating our 38th Reunion this year. And for most of us, 2008/09 will also mark another milestone, our 60th birthday. So we decided the Class should celebrate these “achievements” in a festive manner, in keeping with this auspicious occasion.

Reunions will be from Thursday, May 28, through Sunday, May 31, with the biggest and most important day being Saturday, May 30. We will be part of the Class of 1969’s 40th Combine in the courtyard by Dod Hall. GREAT NEWS – off-year Reunions admissions are now FREE!!! So come enjoy all the parties and The One and Only P-Rade.

We also have a number of Class of 1971 events for classmates and their guests, and most of them are FREE as well:

• The first free event is our traditional Saturday luncheon, which will be held this year at the Chancellor Green courtyard on the Nassau Street side of East Pyne. The luncheon starts at noon and will wrap up prior to the P-Rade, which kicks off at 2:00. Importantly, during this luncheon we will be having an official Class meeting starting around 12:45, which we encourage all to attend.
• The second free Class event is our cocktail party at the Faculty Club at Prospect House. It starts after the P-Rade at approximately 5:15-5:30. It is a superb opportunity for all of us to visit with old friends. A short concert by one of Princeton’s finest a cappella groups, Shere Khan, will entertain us all.
• Our final activity is our CLASS DINNER & BIRTHDAY BASH! This annual extravaganza flows right out of the cocktail party. This event is paid for by the attendees at our cost. The dinner is a multi-course gourmet meal served with vintage wines.

  The setting couldn’t be better: the glass-enclosed main dining room of the Faculty Club overlooking Prospect’s beautiful gardens. But the best part of the dinner is the company you’ll be keeping. What could be better than being with fellow 1971ers and their families and friends! It will be a celebration to remember, marking our 38th year in alumni-hood and (who could forget) our 60th birthdays. And to make sure you won’t forget this evening, the Class will be supplying everyone with a memento marking the occasion. The dinner fee will be $71 per person. The dinner will end in enough time so that everyone who wants to attend the University fireworks will have that opportunity. The dinner is truly a blast; we encourage all 1971ers to attend.

We ask that all attendees for the dinner register in advance. This allows us and Prospect House to plan appropriately. You can pre-register with Gary Walsh at Gary@pu71.org, Jack Hittson at Jack@pu71.org, or Rich Hollingsworth at Rich@pu71.org. You can pay for the dinners in advance on the Class of 1971 Website, www.princeton1971.org, or by mailing a check to Rich Hollingsworth, 73 Bartlett Hill Road, Concord, MA 01742.

Needless to say, Reunions are more than just Class of 1971 activities, the P-Rade and 40th Combine parties. Many other activities occur throughout the weekend. To find out about them, use the following link to the official Princeton University website regarding 2009 Reunions:

http://alumni.princeton.edu/main/goinback/reunions/reunions_2009/.

If you're feeling guilty about all these FREE Class events (Reunions Registration; Class Luncheon; and, Class Cocktail Party) or better still if you'd like to give something back to make sure events like these and others continue, won't you consider a contribution to "The Class of 1971, Save the Wild Life Fund." Without SWLF support, fees for our 25th and 35th Reunions would have been $100 to $250 more per Classmate. But it can only continue to help our Class if it receives donations. Just bring a check, or contribute through the Class website.

So Come One, Come All to 1971’s 38th Reunion and 60th Birthday Bash! Rekindle old friendships, enjoy a free lunch and cocktail party, march in the One and Only P-Rade, join your classmates at a glorious birthday bash, and finish the day with a dance or two or more at the 40th Combine party. It all happens Saturday, May 30. Join us for the fun!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Ask a classmate about his or her favorite music, and you’d get a range of answers, but most would probably cluster around Classic Rock, Motown, folk/pop and perhaps classical. Or maybe jazz. But you wouldn’t find many takers for the Broadway and pop standards of an earlier generation, the work of Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart, Harold Arlen and Hoagy Carmichael.

Those are among the central musical inspirations for Peter Robinson ’71, who gets to play from their repertoire several nights a week at the Fairfax Hotel, on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. He plays there in the Fairfax Lounge, Wednesdays through Saturdays, and works on his own compositions by day from his home in nearby Bethesda, Md.

Peter spoke at length by phone not long ago from home, recounting his career and his tireless pursuit of his musical passion. In a class stuffed with doctors and lawyers, he is among a relative few who has forsaken a conventional career to follow his artistic muse. Actually, Peter’s relationship with the class is a story in itself. After spending his freshman year at Brown Hall and sophomore year in Holder, he dropped out for a year, staying in town and writing music for Triangle’s “Call a Spade a Shovel” and playing in a band called Occam’s Razor. “It was a cool band,” he says, that was later called Hard Rain and did jazz-infused music like Blood, Sweat & Tears. Peter played the organ and sang. Classmates may remember Peter – one of six in our class from Shawnee Mission High School in Kansas -- as getting around the campus in a golf cart, which he found tremendously helpful to combat the effects of the polio he was born with. (He says he no longer uses a cart – which was a Harley-Davidson, incidentally – but says a car is a huge boon for traveling around Washington.)

Returning to campus, he graduated with the Class of ’72, majoring in English after he found that the music department didn’t really offer him a chance to specialize in the music he loved. Even his thesis – a musical – was unconventional. “At least they let me graduate,” he says with a chuckle. Peter didn’t officially rejoin ’71 until 2001, at our 30th Reunion, when Reunion Chair Jamie Pitney asked him to perform.

After graduation, Peter spent a year at his parent’s summer home in Connecticut, working on tuning his songwriting. Then, through a family friend, he took a job in then-Sen. Bob Dole’s office, “the lowest job there.” That lasted less than a year, and he returned to Kansas City and played piano at a famous hotel there and led a band for a number of years. He was playing at a cocktail party there, in fact, when he met a Kansas congressman, Rep. Larry Wynn, who persuaded him to come back to Capitol Hill as a legislative aide in 1979. But by 1982, he knew he wanted to focus on music, and he left the Hill; he’s been playing and writing ever since.

Along the way, he married his wife, Mary, and they adopted two children, Nathan – who recently turned 18 and has been picking out colleges -- and Evie (for Evelyn), 16. Peter is self-deprecating to a fault about his songwriting, but it clearly remains a major passion in his life. He got a chance to perform 14 of his songs in June 2007, when the Smithsonian asked him to put together a concert as part of its Steinway Series. When he learned there was no set agenda, he saw it as an opportunity to play his own material, and brought in nine other musicians to help him out.

Somewhat facetiously, the concert was called “The Greatest Songs You’ve Never Heard.” He recalls that “it was a lot of fun,” but says, “Now, they are only doing classical.”

He’s quick to cite not only the lasting impact of the composers whose work has touched him, but his inspirations as a performer. “My piano heroes include people I encountered in my self-journey – Bill Evans, Fats Waller and Nat King Cole, when he was strictly a pianist.” He adds that “perhaps my real hero is Bobby Short,” the legendary piano man and singer who held court at New York’s Café Carlyle for many years. “His energy was so great – he lit up a room,” Peter says.

“My mentor in this town is John Eaton, who went through Yale with English degree, which gives us a lot in common. He was able to make a life in DC as a pianist – and he’s marvelous -- and he also played at the Fairfax. I started studying from him, and I ended up playing on his off nights.”

In fact, Peter started playing at the Fairfax in the mid-80s, and stayed there through July 1995. He came back last Thanksgiving when new owners asked him to return, and mixes his own songs in with the classics.

Peter is still writing, still trying to break through with a portfolio of songs. But he says he got great advice years ago from jazz pianist David Frishberg, who had taught himself to be a songwriter. “He was a really good writer,” Peter says. “I heard him at a concert in the 90s and sent him songs. He wrote back saying that sometimes, writing songs is like creating a private garden” – and that no one else will ever see the flowers you’ve planted. In his music, he’s shown a penchant for being topical. Consider the third stanza of a song he calls "When I Get to Heaven," which he says is “about what it will be like to get to heaven if I'm fortunate enough to be allowed in.”

And when I get there if I can,
I'll catch a moment with Alan Greenspan.
He ought to be there by then --
He'll probably say, "It's great to be back again!"
For we've all known
He's only been down here on loan,
And as I learned when I was just a young pup:
Ev'rything that goes down,
Must later come up.


Peter sounds more than a bit jaded with the music industry, with its focus on youth and lavishing its short-term attention on best-selling artists. “I’m proud of what I do, and the business model just doesn’t work if no one shows up to listen to the music, and the proprietors expect musicians to self-market, which really isn’t fair… I don’t like being in the role of self-promotion, but wow, it seems to be an inevitable prerequisite in the music business – Miley, Madonna, name your poison.”

And so he’s concentrating on becoming more of a performer, on being more than just the piano player tinkling background music for a well-heeled bar crowd bent on relaxation. “You need to make a connection with the audience,” Peter says. It’s one more step in the journey, and one in which he hopes classmates and others living in or visiting Washington would care to join him.

-- Jeff Marshall ‘71
Class Secretary and PR Czar

Friday, February 20, 2009

Rumor has it that our beloved scribe, Jeff Marshall ’71 is running low on info about the Great Class of 1971. And while he is enjoying the transition to his next career with Judy in Scottsdale – Jeff recently retired from his years as Editor-in-Chief of the Financial Executive and moved to Arizona from NJ – he tells me that some of his ‘copy’ for the PAW is running low.

So before he begins to use our Nassau Herald from June 1971 as his source of material … might each of us look into our ‘worlds’ and report to Jeff the goings-on with each of us and our families? Photos will be welcome!

You can reach Jeff via e-mail at secretary@pu71.org

Warm regards,

Bill Lewis ‘71

President – Princeton Class of 1971

Friday, January 02, 2009

December 2008

Dear fellow members of the Class of 1971:

Each year, we can expect a series of mailings asking for all sorts of Princeton-related giving. These include letters and e-mails soliciting us for Class Dues, our Class of ’71 Foundation, the Saving the Wild Life Fund (STWLF), as well as university-wide requests for Annual Giving and, far less often, the University’s capital requests. That’s not to mention the host of other gift requests from our eating clubs, Friends organizations, as well as regional and other local Princeton organizations.

In this Treasurer’s letter, I’d like to go over the various donation requests that you have already received or will be receiving in the coming months from the Class or Princeton-wide.

Please keep in mind that fund-raising efforts of the Class and Princeton-wide follow a fiscal year calendar of July 1st through June 30th. We are presently in the middle if fiscal year 2009 (FY’09).

Class Dues – Dues pays for Class operating expenses. These expenses are focused on connecting all classmates through PAW subscription, class website, mailings (such as this Treasurer’s Letter), and an array of Class-paid events open to all classmates such as receptions after the Harvard Game and the Saturday luncheon and evening cocktail hour at Reunions.

This marks the third year of our tiered dues structure. The previous dues fee of $50 a year – which was in place for decades -- has been replaced by the following giving levels: Old Nassau, $150; Patron, $125; Sustaining, $100; Regular, $71. Classmates giving at the Old Nassau and Patron levels qualify for a 35th Reunion shirt or 35th Reunion cap, respectively; however, quantities in some sizes are limited. If a particular size is unavailable, we will contact you by email and let you know what other sizes are in stock.

Our dues requests start every September with the President’s Letter, with periodic follow-ups through the year. And while you may want to check with your personal tax advisor, dues are considered tax-deductible.

The Saving the Wild Life Fund (STWLF) – This fund was established in the memory of Ed Milne ‘71 before our vastly successful 25th Reunion. The STWLF is managed by Stu Rickerson ‘71 and has been used, in part, to defray the costs of upcoming Reunions or provide upfront operating funds to pay for long-lead-time items, such as Class uniforms and apparel. It also has been used to provide deposits for performing groups at Reunions (like the legendary performances by Smokey Robinson at our 25th and Darlene Love at the 35th).

The Class of 1971 Foundation – This fund, administered by Peter Charapko ‘71 and Henry Barkhorn ‘71, supplies scholarships to needy Princeton students – including some of our ‘71 legacies at Old Nassau! As Peter notes, President Shirley Tilghman has applauded the consistency and the size of the contributions.

Annual Giving (AG) – Leading our AG efforts are co-agents Jon Cieslak ’71 and Podie Lynch ’71. Jon and Podie have embarked on a concerted effort to increase participation among classmates, and their efforts paid off in FY’08 with a dollar level that exceeded the goal. However, participation was below the target, and both Jon and Podie are committed to turning that situation around this year.

AG provides the University vast leeway in supporting upcoming expenditures, as well as operating shortfalls. It provides unencumbered funds to assist in providing the educational excellence we have long come to expect from Princeton.

The University Planned Giving / The 1746 Society – The Society honors, memorializes and thanks those alumni and friends of Princeton who have arranged a bequest or planned gift to the University. Founded in 1995 on the eve of Princeton's 250th Anniversary, it now has several thousand members, including those who choose to remain anonymous.

Bill Zwecker ’71, who many of you know, is our planned giving chair and is working in conjunction with the University office to generate more planned giving bequests.

One of the Treasurer’s foremost tasks is to request and collect Class dues. As noted earlier, dues make up a majority of the funds that our Class needs to function. The class management team and I would like to build on last year’s success and build a substantial “fund” that we can use for conventional expenses like the PAW and to fund more ambitious class activities, like get-togethers, regional dinners and the like.

If you haven’t yet sent in your dues, please consider getting out your checkbook and writing a check for any of the amounts noted above. Simply mail it to me, Rich Hollingsworth, at 73 Bartlett Hill Road, Concord, MA, 01742, or you can pay your dues quickly online through the Web-based Class Giving Portal. You can click on the striped card facsimile on our website and – via credit card or personal PayPal account – pay your Class dues or contribute to the STWLF and the ’71 Foundation, as well as via links, to Annual Giving and Planned Giving.

If you have questions about each fund and gift, you can CLICK ON each name and open a “pop-up” window containing information on how your funds will be used.

Please log onto our Class website, www.princeton1971.org, and CLICK ON the dues icon on the navigation bar on the left. Once there, you will be requested to verify you personal information and current e-mail address before you proceed to pay electronically! Please feel free to contact Class President and Webmaster Bill Lewis ’71 , or me at treasurer@pu71.org, if you encounter any problems.

Lastly, individual spam filters have impeded our ability to contact some of you. I’d ask you to please check your junk email folders periodically or put r_j_hollingsworth@msn.com into a “safe” list so that communications on dues and treasury issues don’t get filtered out.

Thanks, and happy holidays to you and your families!

Best regards,

Rich Hollingsworth ‘71

Treasurer – Class of 1971

Friday, October 10, 2008

Now that the Fall has brought out the brilliant foliage and the return of crisp and sunny days our thoughts might turn to football. And keeping with the season, the Class of 1971 has some terrific upcoming Big Three football events for all of us to enjoy.

Adding to the tradition of our annual reception at Tiger Inn (TI) after each fall’s home Big Three football game this season marks our third consecutive year that the Class of ’71 will have a reception at the away Big Three event. This year we meet Harvard at home (10/25) and Yale in New Haven (11/15).

• CLICK HERE to learn more about our annual reception at TI after the Harvard Game.

• CLICK HERE to learn more about our get-together at the Yale Game in New Haven.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Fellow Members of the Great Class of 1971:

I hope you and your families enjoyed a great summer.

As fall approaches, I wanted to bring you up to date on my second year as Class President, review our 37th Reunion last May and alert you to various events we have lined up for the coming year.

Review of the Past Year

Our system of using regular conference calls to discuss the full range of class activities among the class officer group continues to work very well. The various officers have settled into their duties, and with input from former class officers like Jack Hittson and Stu Rickerson, I believe we have a great combination of energy and experience. Bill Zwecker also signed on last year to run Planned Giving for the class – when he can get away from his TV duties in Chicago!

The reception at Tiger Inn following the Yale game last fall was, once again, well-attended and well-run — in fact, the bounty of the buffet spread was a source of amazement to most of the classmates and the others there. A capella group Shere Khan once again entertained with a great display of rhythm and harmony.

While winter is ordinarily a quiet period for get-togethers, a number of classmates reported seeing and greeting each other during the ECAC Hockey tournament during one of the best years for Princeton hockey in memory.

Rich Hollingsworth, our Treasurer and de facto Chief Financial Officer notes that the second year of our tiered dues initiative, once again, was highly successful. (Coincidentally, heh, there is a dues appeal in this envelope that we hope you’ll act on. There is more information on dues later in this letter as well.)

Our 37th Reunion was a well-attended event that drew more than 40 classmates, as well as assorted spouses, significant others and children. Just as the year before, it was a strong turnout for an off-year reunion. A fuller report on the Reunion can be found on the Class Website, www.princeton1971.org. Much of the credit for the festivities, which included a lunch and dinner at Prospect – the latter in the beautiful glass-enclosed dining room known as “the fishbowl” – goes to Reunion Chair Gary Walsh and Vice Chair Jack Hittson.

Our Annual Giving effort, headed by Podie Lynch and Jon Cieslak, once again was strong in terms of dollars raised, at $218,000 a gain from last year’s $211,000. But, once again, our participation levels were weak – in fact, the lowest of all active classes. This reflects poorly on 1971, and I am deeply concerned about it. We simply should not be lagging everyone else.

Podie and Jon worked very hard this past year, and deserve a lot of credit for reaching the monetary goal, but it’s clear that a lot of classmates either are reluctant givers or feel that Princeton doesn’t need their help. We plan to study our annual giving techniques and try to find a way to build participation; a Princeton education is a shared legacy, and we want as many of us as possible to take part in keeping it as strong as it can be. We need to get more people involved in the actual fund-raising. Princeton gets a significant portion of its foundation money based on its alumni participation, so annual giving produces added dividends.

The Class of 1971 Foundation is ‘71’s longest-serving charitable entity. We are looking for renewed participation this year to continue funding of one-half undergraduate tuition scholarships (many to children of the class) Please send donations to Henry Barkhorn, Treasurer, 1095 Park Ave., New York, NY 10128 or give online at www.Princeton1971.org.

In July, President Tilghman wrote to foundation President Peter Charapko: “With the kind of support your Class has provided, I am confident we will continue [Princeton’s leadership role in financial aid.] … I send my warmest thanks. Please convey my gratitude to your ’71 classmates.”

The Save the Wildlife Fund (STWLF), chaired by Stu Rickerson, continues to help finance key class-wide activities – including our 1971 Reunions Luncheons and 1971 Receptions after the P-Rade, and the home Big Three game. A contribution here helps all of us participate in Princeton-related activities. You’ll see information about giving the STWLF on the Class Website.

Finally, I’d like to bring you up to date on our efforts to create the 71 Class Legacy Initiative (71CLI). We got a good start last fall, and then some of the momentum was lost when I suffered some cancer-related issues. As we have reported on in depth, we are trying to piggyback on the strong programs created by the classes of 1955 (Princeton Project 55) and 1969, which are providing one-year fellowships and summer internships, respectively, for graduating Princeton seniors in the not-for-profit world.

The 71CLI has been incorporated, with a slate of officers that includes myself, David Williams, an attorney who drafted the articles of incorporation, Art Lowenstein, and Jim Ungerleider. The officers of the 71CLI as well as active Classmates such as Lex Kelso, Judy and Jeff Marshall, Greg Conderacci, and I are personally very interested in developing a full-blown program that will involve the placing of ‘older’ Princeton graduates who are interested in taking full-time jobs as second careers with nonprofits. This is a way for us all to ‘give back’ … trying to improve the world we live in. Consider this to be Princeton Project 55 … for adults! I strongly urge interested classmates to review the ‘71 Class Legacy Initiative materials on the Class Website and please feel free to contact me with your comments and / or suggestions. (BillLewis@prospect-tech.com).

I very much need your support on this important endeavor. The 71CLI needs all sorts of help: coordinating our efforts with Project 55; recruiting candidates who wish to make this second career transition; interviewing and coaching candidates through this process; working with the not-for-profits; helping us find positions at worthy organizations; and … lots more!



Once again, this class leadership group can point to a strong year. After returning the Class to a sound financial footing in the prior year, we made our annual giving goal for the second year in a row and put on a fine fall reception and terrific Reunion events.

What Lies Ahead for 2008-9

We hope to see you this fall at our annual class reception at Tiger Inn library immediately following the Princeton-Harvard football game on Saturday, Oct. 25. This event traditionally attracts the largest number of classmates outside of Reunions, and this year’s reception, like others that have preceded it, will include entertainment by one of Princeton’s outstanding a capella singing groups. We also hope to see as many classmates as possible at the Princeton-Yale game, this year in New Haven on Nov. 15. For more information about what might be organized for classmates planning to attend that game, please contact our Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Kathy Molony, at Kathy@pu71.org.

As I’ve noted, Kathy has been spearheading an effort to update our Class Constitution, which was written and implemented way back in 1976. With the help of several classmates – especially Gary Walsh, who is an attorney – the revamped constitution is very close to being completed.

Make a point of periodically checking out the ’71 Web site, which was updated last year with input from the class officers and dressed up with some photos from different parts of campus. While I’m modest about my role as class Webmaster, I think you’ll find it’s handsome, easy to navigate and informative. Please check it out at www.princeton1971.org.

And, keep in mind that for next year’s 38th Reunion, Gary is thinking through a plan of creating a special celebration to mark a year when most of us turn 60. Please stay tuned for details as they develop during the year.

Class Dues


Among other things, dues payments defray the costs of producing and mailing the Princeton Alumni Weekly. A special insert can be found in this letter describing our four (4)-tiered dues structure. The best way to avoid those annoying springtime notices and appeals, frankly, is to fill out the enclosed form and mail in your check! Please note that our base dues rate is $71. I’d ask you to consider writing a check or go to the Class Website and click on the orange-striped square and pay online – today!

And one last item…

Are you retiring, running for office or just trekked through the Himalayas? Please consider sending news about yourself and your family to Class Secretary Jeff Marshall at Secretary@pu71.org. And, if you have any questions or concerns that we in the class leadership group can help you with, please feel free to contact myself or other members of the team.

Warmest regards to you and your families!

Bill Lewis ‘71

President – Princeton Class of 1971

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

At the height of the Wall Street crisis, former World Bank investment banker BING SHEN paid a visit to some of his old Washington haunts and by good fortune arrived in time to join classmates Mark Mazo, Terry Plaumer, Tom Hart and Chris Connell for one of their quarterly lunches at the Full Kee restaurant. Class President Bill Lewis is a Full Kee regular, but was there only in spirit on this occasion.



Terry was on home leave from his State Department post in Abuja, Nigeria, and former diplomat Tom was about to decamp to Surinam, where his wife has been posted by the State Department. Bing, also a Morgan Stanley alumnus, is greatly enjoying retirement in San Francisco, serving on the board and chairing the audit committee of a major construction firm in Taiwan and actively involved with Bay area nonprofits that work with a bilingual school and provide day services for Alzheimer's patients.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

I had a great time at Reunions this year.

In fact, with more than 40 of our Classmates back for our 37th, as well as our annual Class dinner comfortably filling the “fish-bowl” dining room in Prospect … it appears that I am not the only one from ’71 who truly enjoys “off-year” Reunions!

For those of you who missed Reunions 2008, there is an excellent article on our Class Web site at:

http://princeton1971.org/news/News1.asp?ID=92

End-of-year loose ends:

Annual Giving (AG) -- As you know, Princeton AG comes to a close at the end of this month [June], and many of your fellow classmates are now hard at work calling, e-mailing, and contacting many of the “regular” AG givers. Right now, we are trying to increase not only our $ contribution but to significantly raise our Class participation %.

Can you please help?

Many of you have been regular givers to AG over many years, so I need not repeat all the words about what good uses are made of AG by the University. So ... I suspect you have been like me ... very busy w/family, business, and other important parts of your lives ... and have postponed making a contribution to the 2008 campaign until now. (I just made my AG contribution via credit card yesterday!)

You can contribute on-line by going to:

https://makeagift.princeton.edu/MakeAGift.aspx.

Or you can also make a gift by calling the 24-hour gift line at: (800) 258-5421 within the United States or (609) 258-3373 internationally.

For reasons that are not very clear to me, or our AG Co-chairs, Jon Cieslak and Podie Lynch, '71 participation % has dropped over the past two years. As Class President, I wanted to make sure that our faithful and regular givers ... were counted in this year's campaign.

The ’71 Foundation -- With the end of the fiscal year for the Class of 1971 Foundation also at June 30, now is a good time to consider your donation. The Foundation contributes to the University’s tuition scholarships, many to sons and daughters of the Class. This is a way to target directly funds for undergraduate education.

For more information and to contribute, please go to:

http://princeton1971.org/giving/foundation.asp

Save the Wild Life Fund (STWLF) -- The Class of 1971 Save the WILD Life Fund (STWLF) takes on greater importance this year, and needs your support. Since its founding in 1991, the SWLF has become a lasting memorial to the irrepressible Ed Milne, our original Class impresario. This year, one of Ed's dreams -- making Reunions registration free for all members of the Class of 1971 -- became a reality. What better time to give to support the Save the WILD Life Fund!

STWLF also promotes Princeton and our Class with three annual Class events now etched into 1971’s collective Class memories and date-books:

• The pre-P-Rade Class Luncheon on Saturday of off-year Reunions;
• The post-P-Rade Class Reception on Saturday of off-year Reunions; and
• The Annual Class reception after the home Big 3 football game each fall.
Each event is free to all Classmates, their families and guests.

For more information and to contribute, please go to:

http://princeton1971.org/giving/stwlf.asp

… and not to be forgotten:

Class Dues – If you haven’t paid Class dues for 2007–2008, don’t despair and don’t give up! Just go to:

https://www.princeton1971.org/dues/step1.asp

and you can make your on-line, secure, Web-based contribution not only to Class Dues but also the other worthy Class charities. And there is even a link to AG so you can be sure to make your contribution for the 2008 Campaign!

Wishing you all a great, healthy, and safe summer!

Bill Lewis ‘71

President – Princeton Class of 1971

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Perhaps it was the change from the West College patio, after many years, to the Chancellor Green courtyard that was a bad omen. Or maybe it was just the fickle late spring New Jersey weather. At any rate, Saturday’s 1971 Reunion lunch was at the mercy of the elements. Not long after the food was laid out and people had begun to arrive, what started as a few drops turned into a deluge, sending classmates, spouses, children and guests scurrying for the indoor protection of neighboring Chancellor Green (much updated since our day) and a leisurely (and dry) lunch prior to the P-rade.

But that was the worst of it.

The rest of the day was essentially gray, but dry, and the P-rade went off with umbrellas needed mainly for decoration. 71ers gathered and mingled at the P-rade site and later at the cocktail reception and dinner. More than 40 classmates – some with graduating or undergraduate children – showed up at some point during the event, ably coordinated by Reunions chair GARY WALSH and vice chair JACK HITTSON.

Others seen at some point during the reunion (and apologies to anyone missed!): LEWIS, RICKERSON, HOLLINGSWORTH, J. MARSHALL, MIMS, BROWER, HIGGINS, BAGDIS, GUMINSKI, HESS, FLOWERMAN, SNOW, ARIGONI, PIKE, LEPORE, PITNEY, MAZO, SENCHESHAK, McGINNIS, CORCORAN, OLLWERTHER, DI FIDELE, CHAMBERLAIN, D. WILLIAMS, R. WILLIAMS, TEGARDEN, SUNG, ARBISSER, McCARTER, CHARAPKO, LOWENSTEIN, LINDSEY, PFLAUMER, BOYLE, EPSTEIN, LERNER, WAI, LEVINE, BLACKBURN, BOEHM, HOLOCZYK.

A highlight was the class dinner, which this year took us to different rooms at Prospect. The evening reception at Prospect was terrific, and held in the room adjacent to the terrace, where some people sat out on a warm night with a view of the gardens – punctuated once again by a performance by Shere Khan, a very fine campus a capella group. The dinner than followed took place in the main dining room at Prospect (some have called it “the fishbowl”) with its glass walls all around. We managed to more or less fill that room, with close to 60 people.

Speaking of 60, Gary intimated that there may be some special celebration at next year’s reunion to coincide with many of the class reaching that magic number. More details will follow next year.

The dinner closed with some poignant remarks by Class President BILL LEWIS, who remarked on his recent struggles with prostate cancer and the connection with members of the 1971 “family” – in particular, MARK MAZO – with helping him find the best medical opinions and support during his successful battle with the disease.

-- Jeff Marshall ’71
Secretary and PR Czar

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Reunions are fast approaching.

As has been noted, registration will be free for the first time for an off-year reunion. That means you don’t need to reach into your wallet for any of the entertainment provided by other classes, the P-rade and the one-of-a-kind atmosphere that prevails at every Princeton reunion. The Saturday lunch – May 31st -- in the Chancellor Green courtyard, as well, will be provided free of charge, as will the cocktail party that launches at Prospect starting at 5:30. Shere Khan, one of the campus’ top a capella groups, will again be entertaining us at cocktails

That party is just the opening course in the great Saturday 05/31 evening program cooked up by Reunions Chair Gary Walsh and Vice Chair Jack Hittson, who have been fine-turning the details for months. The main event is the class dinner, also in Prospect, that begins at 7. That won’t be free, to be sure – it’s an occasion for great food and wine, and will run $71 a person.

To register for dinner on-line CLICK HERE!

For planning purposes, Gary and Jack would ask you to give an indication of whether you will attend the dinner, and how many others (spouse, children) you would bring with you. Please click on the following link and let them know if you can make it. It’s not too late for ’08!

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Our 37th Reunion is less than three months off. The focus of activity, of course, is Saturday, May 31. We’ll have a new gathering point for our annual free lunch, the Chancellor Green courtyard, which should offer an intimate (if outdoor) venue, once again close to the gathering point for the P-Rade. All classmates, families, and their guests are encouraged to attend this event which provides an ideal setting to catch up with old (well maybe not so old!) friends.

More great news! Starting this year there will be no registration fee for our off-year reunions. However, you still need to sign in and get your badge and wristband, so come to ‘73’s site at the Cuyler-1903 courtyard for registration and evening entertainment.

Reunion Chair GARY WALSH and Vice Chair JACK HITTSON have once again laid the groundwork for what has become a great Class of 1971 tradition – a free post P-Rade cocktail reception at Prospect at 5:00, where we will again be treated to a performance by one of our great undergraduate a capella groups. It’s proven to be a wonderful way to socialize and catch up with classmates, and we once again expect members from the “sister” classes of ’46 and ’96 to attend the reception, as they did last year. This effort, to celebrate the classes 25 years on each side of us, was created by STU RICKERSON, who hosted the first such reception last year.

The reception will be followed by a dinner a few steps away in one of the Prospect dining rooms. This event is the only activity of the weekend that is not underwritten by the Class, and the fee for the dinner is $71 a head. Last year, more than 55 classmates, spouses and friends attended the dinner, and a great time was had by all. See the link on the website to register for the dinner and find out the payment details. We need an advance count for the staff at Prospect to plan for us.

At this time we have only one bed available for on-campus housing. If you would like this bed or if you have any problems with the on-line sign-up, simply e-mail Gary and Jack by CLICKING HERE!

Plan to join your classmates at our 37th Reunion. We can promise it will be a great time, and don’t forget to sign up for the Class dinner soon! So bring your blazer, hat, cap, or ’71 umbrella and be ready to step out ahead of ’72!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Dear fellow members of the Class of 1971:

Each year, we can expect a series of mailings asking for all sorts of Princeton-related giving. These include letters and e-mails soliciting us for Class Dues, our Class of ’71 Foundation, the Saving the Wild Life Fund (STWLF), as well as university-wide requests for Annual Giving and, far less often, the University’s capital requests. That’s not to mention the host of other gift requests from our eating clubs, Friends organizations, as well as regional and other local Princeton organizations.

In this Treasurer’s letter, I’d like to go over the various donation requests that you’ll be receiving in the coming months to remind you of the Giving Portal that has been available for some time on our *award-winning* Class Web site: www.princeton1971.org.

Most of the giving requests will be in the categories of Class requests and Princeton-wide requests. Some of these are:

Class Dues – This marks the second year of our new tiered dues structure. The previous dues fee of $50 a year – which was in place for decades -- has been replaced by the following giving levels: Old Nassau, $150; Patron, $125; Sustaining, $100; Regular, $71.Classmates giving at the Old Nassau and Patron levels qualify for a 35th Reunion shirt or 35th Reunion cap, respectively; however, quantities in some sizes are limited. If a particular size is unavailable, we will contact you by email and let you know what other sizes are in stock.

We discovered last year that this new dues program could indeed stimulate higher collections; we were very pleased with the results. As noted in the President’s letter this fall, we raised $24,000 in 2006-7, well above the $13,000 raised the year before. It bears repeating that dues are meaningful -- they pay for a majority of the normal Class operating expenses, including your subscription to the PAW. Our dues requests occur every fall, with periodic follow-ups through the year. And while you may want to check with your personal tax advisor, dues are considered tax-deductible.

The Saving the Wild Life Fund (STWLF) – This fund was established in the memory of Ed Milne ‘71 before our vastly successful 25th Reunion. The STWLF is managed by Stu Rickerson ‘71 and has been used, in part, to defray the costs of upcoming Reunions or provide upfront operating funds to pay for long-lead-time items, such as Class uniforms and apparel. It also has been used to provide deposits for performing groups at Reunions (like the legendary performances by Smokey Robinson at our 25th and Darlene Love at the 35th).

The Class of 1971 Foundation – This fund, administered by Peter Charapko ‘71 and Henry Barkhorn ‘71, supplies scholarships to needy Princeton students – including some of our ‘71 legacies at Old Nassau! As Peter notes, President Shirley Tilghman has applauded the consistency and the size of the contributions.

Annual Giving (AG) – Leading our AG efforts are co-agents, Jon Cieslak ’71 and Podie Lynch ’71. Jon and Podie have embarked on a concerted effort to increase participation among classmates, and their efforts paid off in 2006-7 with a dollar level that exceeded the goal for the first time in many years. However, participation was below the target, and both Jon and Podie are committed to turning that situation around this year.

AG provides the University vast leeway in supporting upcoming expenditures, as well as operating shortfalls. It provides unencumbered funds to assist in providing the educational excellence we have long come to expect from Princeton. The AG campaign stretches from December until June 30th of each year, affording us an opportunity to split our AG gift over two (2) tax years!

The University Planned Giving / The 1746 Society – The Society honors, memorializes and thanks those alumni and friends of Princeton who have arranged a bequest or planned gift to the University. Founded in 1995 on the eve of Princeton's 250th Anniversary, it now has several thousand members, including those who choose to remain anonymous.

Bill Zwecker ’71, who many of you know, has recently agreed to serve as our planned giving chair and will be working in conjunction with the University office to generate more planned giving bequests.

One of the Treasurer’s foremost tasks is to request and collect Class dues. As noted earlier, dues make up a majority of the funds that our Class needs to function. The class management team and I would like to build on last year’s success and build a substantial “fund” that we can use for conventional expenses like the PAW and to fund more ambitious class activities, like get-togethers, regional dinners and the like.

If you haven’t yet sent in your dues, please consider getting out your checkbook and writing a check for any of the amounts noted above. Simply mail it to me, Rich Hollingsworth, at 73 Bartlett Hill Road, Concord, MA, 01742, or you can pay your dues quickly online through the Web-based Class Giving Portal. You can click on the striped card facsimile on our Web site and – via credit card, check, or PayPal account – pay your Class dues or contribute to the STWLF and the ’71 Foundation, as well as via links, to Annual Giving and Planned Giving.

If you have questions about each fund and gift, you can CLICK ON each name and open a “pop-up” window containing information on how your funds will be used.

Please log onto our Class Website, www.princeton1971.org, and CLICK ON the dues icon on the navigation bar on the left. Once there, you will be requested to verify you personal information and current e-mail address before you proceed to pay electronically! Please feel free to contact Class President and Webmaster Bill Lewis ’71 , or me at treasurer@pu71.org, if you encounter any problems.

Lastly, individual spam filters have impeded our ability to contact some of you. I’d ask you to please check your junk email folders periodically or put r_j_hollingsworth@msn.com into a “safe” list so that communications on dues and treasury issues don’t get filtered out. Thanks, and happy holidays to you and your families!

Best regards,

Rich Hollingsworth ‘71

Treasurer – Class of 1971

Friday, November 16, 2007

November 10 was a cloudy, dreary day, and the football Tigers gave up a couple of late touchdowns – after squandering some glorious chances in the first half – to sink once again to Yale. The Elis’ hold over this rivalry just never seems to relax.

But, the resourceful Class of ’71 found a way to relax after the game, during another terrific reception at the Tiger Inn library. Reunion Chair Gary Walsh presided over a terrific spread of hors’ d’oeuvres – way too many for the assembled crew, actually – and a mellow get-together that once again featured an up-tempo set from Shere Khan, one of the campus’ premier a capella groups. Lots of wives and a number of children were also in attendance.

Spotted either at the game or the reception: Arigoni (with son Jon '08), Bagdis, Barkhorn, Berg, Chamberlain, Chambliss, DiFedele, Hetherington, Hollingsworth, Lerner, Lewis, Leuner, Lillie, Lowenstein, J. Marshall, Mazo, McCarter, Miller, Moss, Munford, Ollwerther, Perel, Pitney, Rickerson, Snow, Swanson, Townend, D. Williams, and Walsh.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

With a considerable record of service to the Class already, Bill Zwecker ‘71 has stepped forward to take on another challenge: Planned Giving Chair. In that role, he’ll be asking classmates to consider Princeton in long-term financial plans, including wills, trusts and bequests.

Zweck, as many of us knew him in our undergraduate days, isn’t coming to this new assignment from a similar field, like money management or financial planning. For many years, he’s been an entertainment reporter and movie critic in Chicago, where TV viewers can see him regularly on the CBS affiliate, WBBM-TV, or read his column in the Chicago Sun-Times.

But Bill, who also has been treasurer of the Princeton Club of Chicago, says he can rely on a dedicated staff at the University for advice on planned giving. ”The laws are constantly changing in this area, so it’s nice to have people with the background and resources in this field,” he said in a recent call from his CBS office. “It’s important to have people who can give advice to classmates on all kinds of ways to tweak their own personal situations.”

“Everyone has a different situation,” he adds. “One of the biggest challenges is the sense that Princeton is so rich, and other institutions or charities are more deserving. It’s great that the university is in great financial condition, but it’s an ongoing process to maintain the quality of education and research. For the alumni who have benefited the most, we’d like to persuade them to chip in.”

It’s no secret to many in the class that 1971’s contributions to Princeton have rarely been robust. “Our class has never been out front in terms of giving, and we have classes on both sides of us with members that are heirs to huge American fortunes,” Bill says. “A lot of us went into careers that were not particularly lucrative. Even those that went into more traditional careers in law and medicine chose areas that didn’t necessarily rake in the big bucks. Since we’re not a particularly wealthy class, fund-raising has been a challenge.

“My thought is: Let’s focus on participation. There are ways to give that are not onerous. For instance, I’ve named the university as a beneficiary of my company insurance policy. It costs me nothing.”

One area he plans to target: single classmates who have been successful and don’t have big obligations of putting children through college. Even if 10 to 15 percent of those people could be persuaded to give, he says, it would be a major boost to planned giving. Zweck says he hopes to do more targeted appeals to individuals, with letters followed by phone calls.

He’ll be coordinating his efforts somewhat with the Annual Giving co-chairs, Jon Cieslak and Podie Lynch, and notes that the recently announced capital campaign by the University “may have some impact.” But he insists he has no monetary goals.

“I’m really thinking in terms of participatory goals. I’m looking to double the list of 1746 Society members in the class,” referring to a program recognizing top Princeton contributors. “It’s really all about remembering Princeton, and not about looking for a huge gift.”

Bill plans to spend more time in New York and the Princeton area in the coming year with these new duties, and will be coming to Reunions. He’s convinced that the opportunity to meet with classmates, even if just for a quick chat, can serve as an important door-opener.

Classmates may remember Bill as a member of the Undergraduate Assembly and Secretary-Treasurer of the class during our sophomore year. He also served for a time as Class Secretary during the 1970s.

He currently splits his days between the TV studio, where he’s part of an early morning team (and is used to rising in the dark), and the Sun-Times. He’s often cited in blurbs for current movies, and as an entertainment reporter, he covers whatever moves in Hollywood and on television, including the celebrity beat. With that, he travels fairly regularly to LA and New York, racking up 100,000 air miles a year.

Bill and his partner, Thomas Gorman IV, have an apartment in Chicago they are preparing to remodel, and have a new place in Palm Desert, Calif. He says he’s “playing tennis again” and golfs, and notes that their travels have taken them to Australia, Europe and the Caribbean in recent years.

Divorced for many years, Bill says he’s close to his ex-wife, Debbie, and their son Brayton, and is doting on a 2-year-old grandson who lives in Chicago – with another grandchild due in March.

Longevity is often an issue with planned giving, and, interestingly, Bill has quite a set of precedents in his family: his father lived to 90, and his mother (a pioneering women’s and fashion columnist in Chicago) is 97.

Classmates interested in contacting Bill about planning giving can reach him at BZwecker@pu71.org.

-- Jeff Marshall ‘71

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

The Tigers may be heavy underdogs, but when has that ever stopped anyone from making a Princeton-Yale game? There could be a big upset in the making… and win or lose, there will be good food and better company at the Class of ’71 annual reception this Saturday following the game at Tiger Inn. Shere Khan, one of the top campus a capella groups, will be entertaining us again in the TI Library.

Bring your party attitude and mix and mingle with the traditional bar and hors d’oeuvres. Hope to see you there!

Friday, November 02, 2007

Dr. Alan Lazaroff ’71 is helping set new standards for geriatric care in Colorado.

" ... Dr. Alan Lazaroff is chairman of Total Longterm Care at Centura Senior Health Centers. He was named a Champion in Health Care in the physician category ..."

CLICK HERE to read this recent article from the Denver Business Journal

Friday, September 14, 2007

Fellow Members of the Great Class of 1971:

I hope you and your families enjoyed a great summer. As fall approaches, I wanted to bring you up to date on my first year as Class President – and the first year for this class management team! – as well as our 36th Reunion last June. Plus, I want to highlight various events we have lined up for the coming year.

Review of the Past Year:

Our team approach to managing class affairs has been working extremely well. We have regular conference calls, all well attended, and a very healthy exchange of ideas. Our Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), Kathy Molony, is heavily involved in a range of class activities and is proving a very capable backup to yours truly.

Kathy’s husband, Rich Hollingsworth, is our Treasurer and de facto Chief Financial Officer, and he’s taken a rigorous and analytical approach to our treasury. Rich provides regular financial updates and running reports on our dues collections and various accounts. I’m delighted to report that one of our initiatives, to set up a tiered approach to class dues contributions, has worked extremely well.

In fact, the response really exceeded our expectations: Many classmates gave at the top or second-to-top levels during the past year, which made a huge difference in our class account. We raised about $24,000 versus $13,000 the year before, and we made up a deficit we had been carrying for several years with several vendors as well as the Princeton Alumni Weekly, which draws from class dues accounts for some of its costs.

Along with the success of the dues drive was a special effort aimed at eliminating the deficit we were carrying from the 35th reunion. Some 21 “angels” – including most of the class management group – stepped forward with one-time contributions to eliminate the gap. Not only was this a great show of class spirit, but it won us considerable respect from the University officials, who don’t much appreciate classes that show continuing deficits.

Our 36th Reunion in early June was a terrific, well-attended event that drew close to 50 classmates and assorted spouses, significant others and children. It was a strong number for an off-year reunion just after a major. A fuller report on the Reunion can be found on the class Website, princeton1971.org. Much of the credit there goes to Reunion Chair Gary Walsh and Vice-Chair Jack Hittson.

Our Annual Giving effort, headed by Podie Lynch and Jon Cieslak, was a tremendous success in terms of dollars raised, at more than $211,000, well above our $200,000 goal. This marked the first time in years that we exceeded our budget goal. However, the participation rate was significantly below our goal of 58 percent. Podie and Jon worked hard and deserve a lot of credit for attaining that goal, but Jon tells me they plan to work even harder to increase participation. And – not so incidentally! – the latest year’s fundraising brings ‘71’s total since graduation to more than $9 million. Fantastic!

The Class of 1971 Foundation, which sometimes gets overlooked in the crush of ‘other’ giving campaigns, continues to provide critical aid to students and deserves wider class support. Currently in its 27th year, for most of that time it has donated scholarships for undergraduates, many of whom have been the sons and daughters of our class. President Peter Charapko notes that for the past several years, this has amounted to $15,500 annually, about half of a year’s tuition. Details about giving to the Foundation can be found on our Website at www.princeton1971.org/giving/foundation.asp.

Stu Rickerson took the lead in bringing together ‘71’s two “sister” Classes, 1946 and 1996, who graduated 25 years before and after us. We represent Classes with graduations coinciding with the University’s 200th, 225th and 250th anniversaries. Members of those Classes joined us during the reception at Prospect during the Saturday of this latest Reunion. Stu remains chair of the Save the Wildlife Fund (STWLF), which continues to help finance key class-wide activities -- including our 1971 Reunions Luncheons and 1971 Receptions after the P-Rade, and the home Big Three game -- encouraging all of us to participate in Princeton-related activities.

Finally, I’d like to bring you up to date on our efforts to create a Class Legacy Initiative. A full report on the early groundwork was offered in a letter from Art Lowenstein that many of you probably saw on our Website. Briefly, we are trying to piggyback on the strong programs created by the Classes of 1955 (Princeton Project 55) and 1969, which are providing one-year fellowships and summer internships, respectively, for graduating Princeton seniors.

A delegation of interested classmates met about the Legacy project during Reunions, and we plan to have another meeting in September in Princeton. David Williams has drafted articles of incorporation, and I’m personally very interested in developing a full-blown program that may well involve the class supporting older graduates interested in taking full-time jobs with nonprofits involved with trying to improve the world we live in. I strongly urge interested Classmates to review the ’71 Legacy Initiative materials on the Class Web site and please feel free to contact me with your comments and / or suggestions.

By any measure, this class leadership group had a very good first year. We have returned to the Class to a sound financial footing, retired all of our debt, made our annual giving goal for the first year in a very long time -- and are now poised to do new and good things for the class, the University and (via the Class Legacy initiative) perhaps society at large.

What lies ahead for 2007-08:

During the fall, we plan to hold our traditional class events at the Big Three football games. That means a reception at the Harvard game in Cambridge in October, and our popular reception following the Yale game in November.

At the Harvard game on Saturday, Oct. 20, Tiger Tent festivities start at 10:30 a.m. and last until about 6 p.m. Please see the special insert in this mailing. The Harvard Football Game represents the largest gathering of Princetonians outside of Reunions, and we hope that this year’s game will attract many classmates from New England and beyond. In addition to the game, the weekend will be marked by the Head of the Charles Regatta, as well as other sporting events featuring Princeton teams. For additional information, please contact Kathy Molony at Kathy@pu71.org.

Our traditional Yale Game reception will take place on Saturday, Nov. 10, immediately after the game (a Tiger win, we hope!) at the Tiger Inn Library.

Kathy Molony also is spearheading an effort to update our class constitution, which was written and implemented first in practically the dark ages -- 1976. A second constitution was produced in 1985. In the coming year, Kathy will work with several classmates on this project. She welcomes input from volunteers. (Kathy@pu71.org)

While you’re surfing the Web – or, okay, maybe you’re not a surfer! – check out the newly designed ’71 Web site. I had a hand from my colleagues at Prospect Technologies, and input from the class officers, and we think the result is pretty special. It’s handsome, with different photos from different parts of campus, easy to navigate and informative. Please check it out at www.princeton1971.org.

Class Dues:

Amoung other things dues payments defray the costs of producing and mailing the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and we had until last year been carrying a deficit in that account (our annual bill for the PAW is ~ $11,000). A special insert can be found in this letter describing our four-(4) tier dues structure, instituted with great success this past year. The best way to avoid those annoying springtime notices and appeals, frankly, is to fill out the enclosed form and mail in your check today! Please note that our base dues rate is $71. I'd ask you to consider writing a check or go to the Class Web site and pay-online … today!

And one last thing …

As the school year begins, please consider sending news about yourself or your family to Class Secretary Jeff Marshall at secretary@pu71.org. And, if you have any questions or concerns that we in the class leadership group can help you with, please feel free to contact myself or other members of the team, whose e-mail addresses are presented below as well as on the Class Web site.

Sincerely,

Bill Lewis ‘71

President – Princeton Class of 1971

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

As a computer scientist, engineer and entrepreneur, newly elected University Trustee Franklin Moss ’71 of Weston, Mass., sees a big challenge for Princeton and other major research universities that he’d like to help address.

“We have a huge crisis in basic research, especially in our universities. Government funding is going away,” he says. “We face a situation where we have to look far out, but government funding is very short-term. That’s starting to bite right now.

“Universities need a portfolio approach to growing basic research,” Frank adds.

“Princeton should be investing in the future after the future,” but that isn’t happening. And while “there’s a lot of wealth waiting in the wings that has to be put to use,” there needs to be a solid infrastructure for that to happen.

Another issue that intrigues him, Frank said in a telephone interview earlier this week, is “the role of the university in a virtual world. What role does the physical campus play?” At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology and Director of the MIT Media Lab, all of the course work has been put online, which Frank deems “very courageous.” But when learning can be continuous and 24-7, that calls into question the value of a four-year degree. “I don’t think anyone has the answer” to that, he says.

Frank’s pending trusteeship marks a continuation of service to Princeton he’s performed on two academic councils. He’s been serving for three years on the Engineering and Applied Science Council, and spent four years on the Computer Science Advisory Committee.

The two-day, on-campus meetings of these bodies make for “a very cordial couple of days,” but there is real substance, Frank says. “The Princeton committees are open to genuine input. They really listen. The engineering school has undergone a real metamorphosis” in recent years, with more collaboration and an effective identification of relevant themes to energize the school and make its teaching more relevant.

“I’m always looking forward to my Princeton time – it’s refreshing and invigorating. It’s fun,” he says. “These are special people. As you get older, you appreciate it more.” In fact, what really sparked his interest in running for trustee was coming to MIT last year and realizing some of the challenges that the institute was facing – and how those also seemed common to Princeton.

Frank also confesses to being perturbed by the high percentage of graduating Princeton seniors who gravitate to financial services and private equity firms. He notes that some of the curriculum, in fact, seems to reflect that proclivity, and asks, “is that, long-term, what Princeton wants to be? How do we keep Princeton a right-brain place, a creative place?”

For that reason, he says he is “excited about the performing arts thrust” he sees on campus these days and wonders, “How can that creative culture be adopted throughout the university?”

Like most trustees, Frank has assembled an impressive resume: PhD from MIT, executive at IBM, entrepreneur and company founder. He started as a researcher at the IBM center in Yorktown, NY – where he says he was “casting out strange and revolutionary ideas” – and came back to IBM after he started Tivoli Systems in Austin, Texas, took it public and sold it back to Big Blue in the mid-90s. He then ran systems management worldwide for IBM briefly before becoming intrigued with biotechnology and advances in medical research.

Returning to Boston, he co-founded Infinity Pharmaceuticals in 2001. The company, which is developing drugs to battle cancer, went public less than a year ago and more recently announced an alliance with Novartis. Frank remains an active director at Infinity, and says he sees in biotech “concentrations of brilliant people who are passionate about finding cures” to life-threatening diseases. He also calls the Infinity experience the most gratifying of his career.

At the MIT Media Lab, he says he’s enthused by a growing focus on using technology to help people in their everyday lives – especially those with disabilities. “There’s a tremendous opportunity to address social problems; students are very interested in solving problems for the disabled and people in the Third World.” That might mean working on robotically operated limbs for amputees, for instance, or using digital technology to help those suffering from autism or Alzheimer’s disease.

“We’re engaged with clinics and rehab centers; we’re trying to become a center for high technology meeting social problems,” he says. “It’s an interesting new direction.”

Frank has been married to Kim for 19 years. They have three children, the eldest two from his first marriage: Ilan, 31, who lives in Paris and is a researcher for the European Jewish Congress and a bluegrass musician; and Marissa, 26, an account executive for a public relations firm in New York. Hilary, 17, will be a senior this fall at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass. He admits to being a bit apprehensive about the “empty nest” he and Kim will face when Hilary goes off to college.

The family has a summer place in Cape Cod, and Frank says they frequently take to kayaking in the bay there. In fact, he says they’ll often rent a kayak on their travels – but not for the thrill of whitewater kayaking. And he sketches in pen and ink for relaxation, often doing renderings of the hotels the family is visiting in different countries. “I’ll be up early, before the family, and go take my pad and sketch. It really gets your mind off of things.”

Frank sounds eager to bring his mind, and his energy, to the University board, where he would be the second classmate to serve (Scott Berg served a term in 1999-2003). He says he knows a couple of trustees, mentioning Eric Schmidt ’76, the president of Google, and Tony Evnin ‘62, a venture capitalist who is leaving the board. But he’s certain the other trustees are a diverse and accomplished group, and “I’m looking forward to meeting them.”

-- Jeffrey Marshall ‘71
Class Secretary and PR Czar

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

How great a day did our Reunions Chair Gary Walsh have last Saturday? He routed an opponent in match play on the golf course in the morning, then made it down to campus as lunch was underway to preside over a terrific 36th Reunion on Saturday. (Wife Bern did yeoman work in setting up the traditional off-year Reunion lunch on the West College patio.)

The lunch was tasty as always, and the Tigerlillies (formed in 1971, making them a perennial favorite) braved the sweltering sun on the patio to perform for us. Then it was on to the P-rade, where the assembled 71ers, many with spouses and children alongside, withstood a facetious “Old Guard” locomotive from the ’72 Grand Cru (as they called themselves) to step off down the line of march.



The P-rade, mercifully, seemed to go faster this year, at least through our portion. The other off-year tradition, cocktails at Prospect – with another memorable performance by a second a capella group, Shere Khan – led into a wonderful and typically convivial dinner at which the conversation was loud and long at every table.

Registered or at least spotted during the weekend were the following (apologies to anyone missed):

BAGDIS, BOEHM, BOYLE, CHAMBERLAIN, COOK, CLAGETT, DIFIDELE, FABER, EPSTEIN, HARMAR, HESS, HITTSON, HOLOSZYC, KELSO, LAPE, LAPETINA, LEPORE, LEUNER, LEVINE, LEWIS, LINDSEY, LOWENSTEIN, LYNCH, MANCINI, JEFF MARSHALL, MAZO, SANDY MCADOO, MCCARTER, METZGER, OLLWERTHER, PIKE, PITNEY, PFLAUMER, POTTER, QUAY, RICKERSON, SCOTT ROGERS, SENCHESAK, SLOCUM, SNOW, STANCZAK, STUBBS, TEGARDEN, UNGERLEIDER, WALSH, and DAVID WILLIAMS.

More than a few classmates stayed to watch the annual fireworks extravaganza that kicked off just after the dinner ended.

On Saturday morning, a small group of classmates met to discuss the class legacy initiative and to consider “next steps” to see if our class can add to the terrific work being done by the Classes of ’55 and ’69, which have been placing young graduates and summer interns in nonprofits that fill important societal roles. CLICK HERE to learn more.

Art Lowenstein has been heading the research into this project, helped ably by President Bill Lewis. Look for more information about this initiative on the class Website in the months to come. The class management team believes this will be an effort that quite a few classmates will be interested in helping with.

-- Jeff Marshall ‘71
Class Secretary and PR Czar

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Princeton, NJ, Thursday, May 31st, 2007, 1:28 PM EDT

Greetings fellow Members of the Class of 1971:

Re: Presentation for Saturday's '71 Legacy Initiative meeting

Attached to this e-mail please find a copy of the presentation that will be discussed on Saturday re: the '71 Legacy Initiative.  The purpose of this meeting will be to: a) review the status of the '71 Legacy Initiative to date; and b) discuss Next Steps!

As both Art Lowenstein and Jeff Marshall have previously e-mailed to us, the date / location of the meeting / etc. etc. is:



Date: Saturday, June 2, 2007

Location: Frist Campus Center, 309

Organization: Class of 1971

Primary Contact: Arthur Lowenstein

Primary Phone: 212-508-6712

Primary Email: Lowenstein@thshlaw.com

Event: Meeting - '71

Reservation Start Time: 10:00:00 AM

Reservation End Time: 11:30:00 AM

I look forward to see you all on Saturday in TigerTown!


Bill Lewis '71

Dr. Wm. Frederick Lewis
President
Princeton Class of 1971



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Monday, April 30, 2007

Even last year, when the Class of ’71 endured the Torrents of Spring on our 35th reunion, spirits were undampened. With better weather – almost a guaranty – this year, think about making it back to Tigertown for our 36th. Tour the campus, where Whitman Hall has been rising in spectacular fashion, and where the new line of buildings dresses the old Poe Field. Soak in the atmosphere and catch up with classmates about what’s new in their lives.

We’ll be getting together for lunch Saturday, as usual, for the great cookout at the West College Patio. Then it will be on to the P-rade and its one-of-a-kind salute to Princetoniana. We’ll reconvene at Prospect for a cocktail hour and dinner; Reunion chair Gary Walsh promises a great event!

We’ll be back at last year’s venue, Cuyler Hall and 1903, and there’ll be dancing to the retro-act Party Dolls (a hit at last year’s reunion) on Friday night and The Trend on Saturday night, after the University fireworks.

Register today for the low fee of $50 (including spouse or significant other) via our Class Web site. Hope to see you there!

For more information on Reunions 2007, please CLICK HERE!

Friday, April 27, 2007

THE CLASS OF 1971’s 36th REUNION, THURSDAY MAY 31, 2007 TO SUNDAY JUNE 3, 2007

EVENTS

The Class of 1971’s 36th Reunion will be held at the same site as last year, the Cuyler and 1903 Courtyards, with the Class of 1972 being our host. Maybe it will be a little drier this year! Plans call for dancing to the Party Dolls on Friday night and The Trend on Saturday night. Once again, the University’s fireworks extravaganza is planned for Saturday night. Other events can be found on the Alumni Council's Web site.

CLASS LUNCH AND P-RADE

Prior to the P-Rade, which kicks off as usual at 2 p.m. on Saturday, the Class of 1971 will be hosting a luncheon on the West College Patio, beginning at noon. All classmates (including those not registered for reunions) are invited to the luncheon, which has proven a great venue to share food, beverages and conversation. Once again, we’ll be entertained by the Tigerlilies at approximately 12:45, continuing the tradition of having this group, established in 1971, performing at our reunions. After the luncheon, all classmates are encouraged to stroll in the P-Rade in our 35th Reunion uniforms (Blazer, Hat, Pin, Golf Shirt -- and bring the umbrella, although the Walsh/Hittson team is promising that this will be to block the sun, rather than protect against the rain!)

REGISTRATION

Registration will be at the headquarters site. The registration fee this year is being kept low in the hopes of encouraging a great turnout. The fee will be $50 for (i) an individual or (ii) an individual and significant other or (iii) a family, including children or grandchildren (any number) under the age of 21. Adult children (over 21) and other adult guests (not included in (ii) or (iii) above) can be registered for an additional $50 each. In addition, the preregistration fee and the registration fee on site will be the same. For planning purposes, it would be helpful if those planning to attend would preregister by May 11 so we can provide names to the Class of 1972. The registration fee at the site is payable by check or on-line. A registration form is avaible ... here!

RECEPTION

After the P-Rade, the Class of 1971 will host a cocktail reception in the Library at Prospect from 6 to 7 p.m. Again, all classmates (including those not registered for reunions) are heartily invited — please join us for cocktails and entertainment at approximately 6:40 by the Shere Khan a Cappella group, which sang for us at the reception following the PRINCETON/Harvard game last fall.

CLASS DINNER

Following the cocktail party, the Class Dinner will be held at 7 p.m., also at Prospect. The Class Dinner is NOT included in the cost of the Reunion, and will cost $50 per person. In order to attend the Class Dinner, you must indicate on the preregistration form (even if you are not registering for reunions) that you will be attending and with how many others. The preregistration form for the Class Dinner must also be received on or prior to May 11.

We look forward to having as many classmates as possible attending our 36th Reunion. If we can be of assistance in any way, please contact us. Gary Walsh can be reached by email at Gary@pu71.org and Jack Hittson can be reached by email at Jack@pu71.org.

Gary E Walsh, Chair
Jack Hittson, Co-chair

Monday, April 23, 2007

Our new dues program has been going extremely well, which will help keep the Class on good financial footing. We'd like to recognize those classmates who have given to date, at the various levels indicated. If you haven't given, please consider adding your name to this list!

-- Rich Hollingsworth '71
Class Treasurer

FY’07 Dues Recognition List
As of 4/23/2007

Old Nassau ($150 and greater)

William Armiger Kevin Baine David Ball Henry Barkhorn Charles Barr Herbert Beck Gregory Bergey Charles Brodbeck John Brower Leonard Coleman Stephen Cook Mitchell Daniels Louis Demmler Robert Dymek Scott Early William Elfers William Engel Robert Fox Robert Halfnight Stephen Ham

Phillip Hamilton Edwin Hetherington Peter Heyl Ellen Higgins Richard Hollingsworth Edmund Hull Eric Hyson William Kelly Michael Ladra Bill Lewis James Lieber Michael Macko Jeffrey Marshall Mark Mazo Robert McBain Joseph Mezzanotte Kathleen Molony Christopher Nicholas Bradford O'Brien James Pardew

Terry Pflaumer Thomas Potts Keith Rabe Joseph Reidy Stuart Rickerson Ronald Riner Karl Schmalz Edward Scudder Thomas Shuler Geoffrey Smith Christopher Soles William Stewart Mark Tallman Timothy Tosta Anthony Trenga Alan Usas Allen Uyeda Paul Von Kuster Steve Wheeler John Winant

Patron ($125 - $149)

Russell Baker William Bostian Dennis Burns Richard Dare Richard DiFedele

Daniel Fortmann Jack Hittson Karl Hofammann Joseph Reidy Stuart Sovatsky

Tina Sung Robert Warner Richard Werbe

Sustaining ($100 - $124)

James Aronson Benson Brown Patrick Chambers Robert Chambers Robert Chambliss Herrick Chapman John Collins David Dirks Stephen Dreyfuss Michael Epstein Mark Ethridge Richard Faber John Fleming Marshall Henderson

Mauro Lapetina Henry Lerner Rose Lynch David Lyon Evangelos Mageirou Paul Marengo John McNab Frank Miner Luther Munford Randall Ollett William Ollwerther Richard Ostrow Michael Pepper James Pitney

Robert Pritchard David Richardson Michael Roberts Scott Rogers Robert Schiffner Michael Smith Bruce Sokler Milovan Stanojevich Gregory Sterling Stephen Townend Fredrick Vansaun Gary Walsh

Regular ($71 - $99)

William Aaronson Scott Alexander James Alford Amir Arbisser John Arigoni Sheldon Axler Allen Back Jay Bagdis John Baker Scott Berg Ronald Brachman Robert Browne Steven Buenning Marshall Burack Franklyn Caine Frank Camm David Chamberlain John Chitty Jon Cieslak Christopher Connell Daniel Cunningham Allan Curlee David Dalley Jerome Davis Robert Denicola Robert Douthitt Robert Floden Paul Flowerman Varel Freeman John Goodwin

Charles Grezlak Robert Haines William Haning Charles Harmar James Hart Thomas Hart Laird Hayes John Hess Alan Holmer Joel Hoxie Raymond Huard Robert Johnson James Kaufman Richard Keating Alexander Kelso Robert Kemp Jared Kieling William Kuntz George Lankas Kirk Liddell David Lillie David Livingston Stephen Long James Machin Stephen Mann Charles Marboe George McCarter Peter McLaughlin John Miller Phebe Miller

John Moffat Mark Moorstein Stephen Muther Edward Pauly Jonathan Perel Michael Phelps Douglas Pike Michael Potter Richard Quay Frederick Sell Ronald Senchesak Jerome Simandle Thomas Sinclair Robert Sinsheimer Robert Slocum Edwin Smith Randy Snow Edmund Stanczak John Steen Barry Straube Roy Torbert Michael Tourtellot Michael Twomey James Ungerleider John Watkins McNeill Watkins Robert Watson Charles Wright William Zwecker

Friday, March 23, 2007

' ...Whoever wins the single-elimination format Championship will be awarded “The Rickerson Cup,” named for Stuart Rickerson '71, a long-time advocate for the sport in New Jersey. Princeton’s coach, Richard Lopacki, said, “Stu is a natural choice when naming the trophy. He’s a ‘Jersey boy,’ and no one at Princeton has given so much back to the sport for so many years as Stu – so far for 38 years and counting'

Princeton University has been continuously playing rugby since 1931, with Rickerson involved for more than half that time as team captain, coach, newsletter writer and fund-raiser, among other things. Rickerson will make the trophy presentation ...

more ...

Thursday, February 15, 2007

To fellow members of Princeton’s Class of 1971:

Art Lowenstein has become very involved in trying to conceptualize a “class legacy initiative” that would involve members of ’71 in helping to contribute to the greater good of society. As you’ll see in Art’s letter, which follows, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel: The Classes of 1955 and 1969 have well-established, highly effective programs that could be a good model for us; we could even consider piggy-backing on the work that ’55 has done. Please read the letter and think about how our Class could support this effort, and contact Art with your feedback or ideas at art_prince@pu71.org.

Thanks!

Bill Lewis ‘71

President – Class of 1971



Introduction and Purpose:

About the time of Reunions 2006, Bill Lewis approached me and presented a vision for a Class program that would offer classmates an ongoing vehicle for active involvement in public service – something that he called the ’71 Legacy Initiative. I told him that it was of real interest to me and that I would like to be a part of it, and together we have been exploring models for a program that would strike a responsive chord with classmates and that could have a lasting and meaningful impact on society at large.

We didn’t have to look far for models. At Reunions, we attended the annual board meeting of the Class of 1969’s program entitled “Princeton Internships in Civic Service.” More recently, we have had a continuing dialogue with Project 55, the granddaddy of these kinds of programs -- established by the Class of 1955 in 1989 -- and one of its offshoots, the Alumni Network. I want to report to you on what kinds of programs others are involved in, how these programs typically operate, what opportunities there are for us to coordinate with them in a program of our own and what we can expect the effect of such a program to be on our Class and classmate involvement.

Princeton Project 55 and TAN:

Let’s start with Project 55 and its spawn. Last fall, Class President Bill Lewis, Henry Barkhorn and I had lunch with Chet Safian ’55, one of the founders of Project 55 and of many of its offshoots, and director of one such program, the Alumni Network (TAN). The program coordinates and facilitates alumni-based as well as university-sponsored public service programs at Princeton and more than 25 other colleges and universities. Chet has the energy and enthusiasm of a man half his age, I suspect the result of this second career he has embraced, which began when Project 55 was organized.

Also last fall, Bill and I attended a series of meetings and workshops at Princeton organized by Project 55 and TAN and attended by more than 40 representatives of 26 different organizations. The meetings had one common focus: organizing and assisting college alumni to encourage, facilitate and assist students and new graduates to engage as interns and fellows in community service, with a goal of developing effective public servants and to effect systemic change.

So what does Project 55 do, and how did it develop? It began in 1989 when a group of classmates got together in anticipation of their 35th Reunion and decided that they wanted to create something lasting and meaningful as a community service project, something that would be an outlet for classmates to do more than make cash or in-kind contributions but would also draw on their talents, expertise and Rolodexes in an active way.

They said they called it Project 55, not because of their class numerals, but instead as a reflection of their age, and their sense that there were a lot of their classmates who were looking for a vehicle to give something back to the community and who at that point of their lives were in a position to do so, where even a few years ago that might not have been the case. (There seems to be a lot of validity to this analysis, since so many others have followed at about the same age, and here we are considering the same thing.)

They conceived of a program that would place recent graduates in yearlong fellowships at non-profit and community organizations, provided such organizations addressed significant social issues, focused on systemic solutions, were innovative and would provide strong supervision and substantive work.

Project 55’s role included: first, identifying and vetting the organizations to see that they met these criteria; second, screening applicants and recommending a select group to the organizations to facilitate the hiring process for such groups, where resources for such activities typically are scarce; third, mentoring the fellows throughout the year-long fellowship; and, finally, developing seminars and programs to enhance the experience for the fellows.

Each of these activities represents an opportunity for classmates to roll up their sleeves and get actively involved. For the organizations, it represented an opportunity to get outstanding, motivated and energetic junior-level employees at bargain rates, without the burden of much of the vetting and hiring process. For the graduates, Project 55 has simplified the process of finding opportunities in the public-service sector with a high level of confidence that such opportunities will turn out to be meaningful.

Chet Safian likes to say that the program is a win-win, win-win. The students and organizations win for the reasons I have just mentioned. The University wins because of the good will the program generates. Society at large wins because of the good works that result from it.

Over the years, Project 55 has achieved a remarkably high profile, evidenced by the written materials produced by similar programs at other institutions acknowledge their debt to the Project 55 model. At Dartmouth, the program was established by the class of 1959 and has 4 other classes participating. At Harvard, the program is sponsored by the University.

As indicated, there are dozens of other institutions that have developed programs loosely or closely modeled on Project 55. At Princeton, there are several other programs that provide similar opportunities, including, in addition to the Class of ‘69’s program, Princeton in Africa, Princeton in Latin America, Princeton in Asia and the newly formed Princeton in India. At the programs we attended, there were representatives from several other schools interested in forming similar programs.

Early on, Project 55 had a program for summer internships as well as postgraduate fellowships, and over the years has undertaken numerous other initiatives, ranging from setting up the alumni network to establishing a Civic Values Initiative to developing a new public health program. Some have outlived their usefulness, like the Civic Values Initiative, as the University has developed its own programs in the area, and others have been taken over by other classes. The class of 1969, for instance, merged the Project 55 summer intern program into its own initiative a few years ago. It looks like the class of 1976 may take the lead with the public health initiative I just mentioned. Other classes in the 70s are exploring how they can get involved, though it seems that none have actually established programs yet.

What does this mean for ’71?

So what’s in it for us? Why is this something we should want to do, aside from the obvious public service implications? Let’s look at what happened with the Class of ‘55 since it set up Project 55. First, there was opposition from the University at the highest levels (except for President Shapiro, who saw the merits and also recognized that the University couldn’t prevent the Class from doing it anyway). The concern the University had was that Project 55 would dilute the focus of alumni, splinter their activities further and drain support from annual and planned giving efforts. The results have been precisely the opposite.

Project 55 had a galvanizing effect of the Class of ’55. A substantial number of classmates who were disaffected or just not interested in things like Reunions responded enthusiastically to the opportunity to do something that they viewed as meaningful to the Princeton community and the community at large. They got and have remained involved in the project, and as a byproduct they have gotten more involved in class activities, including Reunions. Class dues participation has risen dramatically, as has participation in annual giving. So the University is thrilled and has fostered other classes’ similar activities. I can think of no reason why the impact of this kind of activity would be any less positive for our Class than for the others that have taken this step.

Chet Safian and others who we met with made it clear that they are looking to transition the leadership role for Project 55 to a new generation, and that they would like us to be a part of that process. In my view, this is a very exciting opportunity for our Class. As is true of ’69 and ’76, we benefit from all the heavy lifting that ’55 has done before us to test and improve the model. They have even produced a “how-to” handbook that the Alumni Network provides to anyone interested in replicating the model. They truly believe that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and they do all they can to foster imitators.

Next Steps:

So where does all this leave us, and where do we go from here? As I see it, there are two different tracks that we should pursue simultaneously.

First, we need to do a census of our Class to identify resources. Who is involved with public service organizations or charities, with foundations, or sits on boards, or has particular expertise in healthcare, or education, or the environment or whatever other community based need you can identify?

Chet Safian says that finding organizations that want to use Project 55’s resources to fill positions is as easy as falling off a log, and finding students who want to use it to find fellowships is no more difficult. We should have contacts among us with lots of organizations that would benefit from this kind of a program.

Who would be interested in mentoring fellows who are placed with organizations in their communities? ‘55 reports that their classmates who have done this find it unbelievably rewarding. Who has access to grants for these kinds of projects? Then we need to determine what level of financial support we can count on. Fortunately, if we coordinate with Project 55, we will be able to take advantage of some of their resources. I would hope that early on, our principal contribution would be sweat equity, with the cash coming later as people find themselves more and more invested in the program.

Second, we need to establish just how we coordinate with Project 55, and what kind of a role they would envision us playing with them. Personally, I see us acting in complement with them, not competing for the same students and organization placements. To get traction within the Class, I suspect there will have to be some identification with the Class, not just with Project 55.

I would hope that we can start developing our database during the winter and spring, so that by Reunions we will be able to present a fully developed program proposal to the Class and launch it at that time. In order to do so, we will need to spend some time consulting with one another. If you would like to be part of this process -- and I urge you to do so because I think it can be important and rewarding and energizing -- please let me know. I or someone else on the team will contact each of you in any event to pick your brain even if you can’t be more involved.

Finally, if you wonder if what we are outlining can really make a difference, consider a recent article in the New York Times Sunday magazine. The cover article talks about education in the inner city, and describes a number of innovative programs that are having an impact. It is probably no coincidence that Project 55 fellows are working at each of these programs. Helping to put the best and the brightest in place to make a difference through a lifetime of public service is about the most cost-effective way that I can think of to leave a true legacy that this Class and its descendents can and will be proud of.

-- Art ‘Prince’ Lowenstein
01/31/07



Additional URLs / Links associated w/ Project 55 and The Alumni Network (TAN):

• The Project 55 Web site: www.project55.org
• The Alumni Network: http://project55.org/tan.html
• Handbook on how to establish an Alumni Network (in PDF Format): http://project55.org/docs/2005%20Basic%20Manual.pdf

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

It is with great sadness that I report that Larry Dupraz h’71 died on December 24th, 2006. Larry, an honorary member of our Class since June 2001 was known to generations of the ‘Prince’ crowd as “a beloved flat-topped, cigar-chomping curmudgeon whose critical eye refined six decades of journalism”.

Larry Dupraz was also particularly influential to many in our Class including Connell, Conderacci, Balfour, Munford, Chitty, Elfers, and Ollwerther.

I wrote a short note to Chris ‘Pens’ Connell asking him for a short ‘blurb’ leading into this Web site news article and e-mail Blast consisting of the Prince Obit and photos of Larry with many of the ’71 Prince Alums. As an aside, I informed Pens that Larry was almost religious about paying his Class dues -- something of a rarity among Honorary Classmates. The following is Chris’ response to me:

Bill,

The Prince obit needs no embellishment. I would simply note that Larry was part of the remarkable triumvirate who accepted the invitation to become honorary members of the Class of '71 at our 30th Reunion. Everyone in McCosh that morning for the induction of Marvin Bressler, John Fleming and Larry Dupraz knew that they were honoring us, not the other way around. Sociologist, Chaucerian and Compositor/Fire Chief/Father Confessor of the Prince -- each touched so many lives of generations of Princetonians. Indeed, the honor was ours.

To hear that Larry actually paid class dues leaves me, well, speechless, but that was Larry. Such an upstanding citizen, the embodiment of the civic ideal. At the post-P-Rade Prince party outside 48 University Place last June 3, Larry apologized for not wearing his Class of 1971 black-orange-silver-and-white striped blazer. But it was up in the attic at his and Nora's home on Harrison Street, and Larry's days of scaling ladders had come to an end. Half a dozen of us -- Conderacci, Chitty, Balfour, Munford, Ollwerther and myself -- were there that afternoon. Greg was a stalwart on the Prince board, along with Bill Elfers who made the reunion but not the party. Bill almost single-handedly deserves credit for shoring up the Prince’s finances and – not least of all – ensuring that Larry received more than a modest pension for his long labor of love.



CLICK HERE for Larry Dupraz h’71 obit in the 12/27/06 issue of the Prince.

Monday, December 11, 2006

December 8th, 2006

Dear fellow members of the Class of 1971:

Each year, we Princetonians are inundated with requests for all sorts of Princeton-related giving. We receive letters and e-mails soliciting us for Class Dues, our Class Foundation, the Class of ’71 Saving the Wild Life Fund (STWLF), as well as university-wide requests for Annual Giving and the (less often) University’s capital requests. This doesn’t include the multitude of other gift requests from our eating clubs, Friends organizations, as well as regional and other local Princeton organizations.

In this Treasurer’s letter, I’d like to review the various “giving’” requests that you’ll be receiving throughout the upcoming year and remind you of the Giving Portal that has been available for some time on our *award-winning* Class Web site, www.princeton1971.org.

Most of the giving requests will be in the categories of Class requests and Princeton-wide requests. Some of these are:

Class Dues – As noted in an earlier insert in the fall President’s letter, we have instituted a new tiered dues structure. The previous dues fee of $50 a year – which was in place for decades -- has been replaced by the following giving levels: Old Nassau, $150; Patron, $125; Sustaining, $100; Regular, $71.Classmates giving at the Old Nassau and Patron levels qualify for a 35th Reunion shirt or 35th Reunion cap, respectively.



I, along with your other Class officers, felt that this new program might stimulate higher dues participation – or, at the least, bring in more money. So far, the results have been very promising. Remember, dues are meaningful -- they pay for a majority of the normal Class operating expenses, including your subscription to the PAW. Our dues requests occur every fall, with periodic follow-ups through the year. And while you may want to check with your personal tax advisor, dues are considered tax-deductible.

The Saving the Wild Life Fund (STWLF) –This fund was established in the memory of Ed Milne ‘71 before our vastly successful 25th Reunion. The STWLF is managed by Stu Rickerson ‘71 and has been used, in part, to defray the costs of upcoming Reunions or provide upfront operating funds to pay for long-lead-time items such as Class uniforms and apparel. It also has been used to provide deposits for performing groups at Reunions (like the legendary performances by Smokey Robinson at our 25th and Darlene Love at the 35th). Contributions to this fund are *NOT* tax-deductible.

The Class of 1971 Foundation – This fund, administered by Peter Charapko ‘71 and Henry Barkhorn ‘71, supplies scholarships to needy Princeton students. And it has been know to fund some of our ‘71 legacies at Old Nassau! As Peter notes, President Shirley Tilghman has applauded the consistency and the size of the contributions. Like our dues, contributions to the Foundation are Tax deductible.

Annual Giving (AG) – Leading our AG efforts are two co-agents, Jon Cieslak ’71 and Podie Lynch ’71. Jon and Podie have embarked on a concerted effort to increase participation among classmates. AG provides the University vast leeway in supporting upcoming expenditures, as well as operating shortfalls. It provides unencumbered funds to assist in providing the educational excellence we have long come to expect from the University. The AG campaign stretches from December until June 30th of each year, affording us an opportunity to split our AG gift over two (2) tax years!

The University Planned Giving / The 1746 Society – The Society honors, memorializes and thanks those alumni and friends of Princeton who have arranged a bequest or planned gift to the University. Founded in 1995 on the eve of Princeton's 250th Anniversary, it now has more than 2,000 members, including those who choose to remain anonymous.

As many of you know, one of the Treasurer’s foremost tasks is to request and collect Class dues. As noted earlier, dues make up a majority of the funds that our Class needs each year to function. However, while dues were historically kept low, the rate of giving has been disappointing in recent years, and we had been running a deficit in the account.

So, if you are a classmate who hasn’t yet sent in your dues, please consider getting your checkbook and writing a check for any of the amounts noted above. Simply mail it to me, Rich Hollingsworth, at 73 Bartlett Hill Road, Concord, MA, 01742. Or you can pay your dues online through the Web-based Class Giving Portal. You can click on the striped button on our Web site and – via credit card, check, or PayPal account – pay your Class dues or contribute to the STWLF and the ’71 Foundation, as well as via links, to Annual Giving and Planned Giving. Or you can use the enclosed form in this mailing.

If you have questions about each fund and gift, you can CLICK ON each name and open a “pop-up” window containing information on how your funds will be used.

Please log onto our Class Website, www.princeton1971.org, and CLICK ON the dues icon on the navigation bar on the left. Once there, you will be requested to verify you personal information and current e-mail address before you proceed to pay electronically! Please feel free to contact Class President and Webmaster Bill Lewis ’71, or me at treasurer@pu71.org, if you encounter any problems.

Best regards,

Rich Hollingsworth ‘71

Treasurer – Class of 1971

Monday, November 13, 2006

Led by senior quarterback Jeff Terrell, who set the fourth-highest single-game passing total in Princeton football history, the 21st-ranked Tigers won the wildest game in the wildest season in a long time. Princeton rallied from three 14-point deficits and one 11-point deficit with 10:52 remaining to stun Yale in New Haven, Conn. The wildest thing of all comes out of the win; the Princeton football team, picked to finish sixth in the Ivy League preseason poll, is now one win away from its ninth Ivy League title and its first since 1995.

Jeff Terrell threw for 445 yards and three touchdowns, including a season-long 57-yard strike to Brian Brigham with 7:36 remaining that gave the Tigers their first and only lead of the game, and rushed for a fourth touchdown. Twelve of his passes, including two of his touchdowns, went to Brendan Circle, who recorded 178 receiving yards and added a two-point conversion in the fourth quarter. Brigham added six catches for 121 yards, but it was his final one that will long be remembered by the Princeton faithful. His out-and-up, which opened a Princeton drive in the middle of the fourth quarter, caught the Yale defense by surprise and left Brigham wide open. Terrell floated a perfect pass to him, and Brigham streaked into the end zone untouched.

More ...

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Over the past 24- hours there have been some excellent comments, photos, and e-mails by Classmates as well as other members of the Princeton family about the Tiger's come-from-behind win over Yale in the Bowl in New Haven. I have compiled below some of the noteworthy links / photos / e-mails so those of you who missed the event can also savor this outstanding win.

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THE NY TIMES: IVY LEAGUE ROUNDUP: Princeton Pulls Out a Victory and Avenges a Loss to Yale (11/12/06)

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THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN: BONFIRE! ... Princeton's time to shine: After first-half fiasco, defense only gives up three points, allowing Terrell to lead dramatic comeback (11/13/06)

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THE YALE DAILY NEWS: Elis collapse vs. Princeton ... Football blows lead, chances to clinch Ivies (11/13/06)

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From: "Richard Hollingsworth"
To: "Bill Lewis" Bill@pu71.org
Subject: Saturday in the Yale Bowl - from Rich as of 11/12/2006
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:46:37 -0500

Bill:

First of all, sitting in the Yale Bowl yesterday in beautiful sunny, slightly breeze, 60F weather and watch Yale LOSE was incredible!!

There was a very good crowd (almost 44,000) and the Princeton side was rockin'. The USG sent 10 busses full of students. The clubs sent some more buses. All of the undergraduates had bright orange tee shirts with, on the back, a bulldog on a spit being roasted!!

The students were loud and raucous. We were sitting in the middle of them (perhaps more accurately, they descended upon the reserved seats at the 35 yard line … they had general seating and were relegated, I think, to the 10 yard line near one end zone. I think alums loved the mix.) The Yale side was packed and noisy in the 1st half. Nothing is finer than not hearing a boo from them in the 2nd half.

Terrell was on fire. He throws the ball VERY hard which, I think, has a lot to do with why he had no interceptions (except for one defensive end who put up a hand just at the wrong time, whacked the ball, and caught it for a "cheap" interception). I'm amazed that the Princeton receivers can actually catch the ball since it's smokin' when it gets to them.

Two exciting points that I'll not forget:

1st Terrell's last TD pass had the Yale secondary so faked out that the receiver (Bingham) was so wide open I could have hit him with the pass.

The 2nd was at a bit less than 2 minutes left Princeton had a 3rd and 8 in our own territory and the place was really noisy (from both sides) and Terrell calmly went back and threw a 10 or 15 yard completion. First down. No Yale time outs. That was the game.

The students went nuts at the end (so did the alums), and stormed the field. It was great to see Princeton ram it down Yale's throat in their house with, for the Ivy League, a huge crowd. How sweet.

Eli Yale, my ass.

.... Rich .....

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From: Randy Meadows
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:26:04 EST
Subject: Yale picture
To: president@pu71.org

Bill

Here is a photo of the field during yesterday's post game celebration.

Randy Meadows ‘71



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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:28:25 -0500
From: "Peter Dutton"
To: "pu-ivy-sports" pu-ivy-sports@lists.tigernet.princeton.edu

We were amazed at how many Princeton students made the trip. There were probably about 490 more students there than at the (home) Harvard game, and it made for a great atmosphere. Here's a picture. Note that in the Yale Bowl, the students sit bottom level midfield. Perhaps that's where they should be sitting at Princeton Stadium (or at least top level midfield...)

www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/295538133/

Peter Dutton '91 s94

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Saturday, October 21, was a trifecta for the Class of ’71: a sunny, crisp fall day; an exciting and well-earned win for the still-undefeated Tiger football team over Harvard; and a terrific reception at Tiger Inn after the game that gave classmates a chance to mix and mingle.

The gathering in the TI library, with an open bar and a nice array of hors d’oeuvres, made for a mellow post-game party. A great set from Shere Khan, one of the campus a capella groups (who even did a Simon & Garfunkel medley), was a real highlight. “Feelin’ Groovy?” Indeed. Thanks and appreciation for setting up the event go to Gary Walsh and Stu Rickerson.

Attending the reception were a goodly number of classmates: (obviously not in alphabetical order): Walsh; Winant; Hess, Jack; Barkhorn; Lynch; Arigoni; Meadows; Pitney; Good; Mazo; Burack, Lewis; DiFedele; Williams, Richard; Mezzanotte; McCarter; Payne; Hart, T.; Snow; Morgan; Molony; Bagdis; Marshall; Pike; Leuner; Kirkpatrick; Rickerson and Quay. Spouses of the following were signed in as well: Walsh; Winant; Arigoni; Hess; Lynch; Morgan; Pitney; Mazo; DiFedele; Mezzanotte; Marshall; Leuner; Rickerson and Quay. 35th Crew Members who were children of Class of 1971 who attended were Arigoni, Hess, Quay and Rogers.

The reception was the latest in what has become an annual tradition held after the home “Big 3” game, which alternates between Harvard and Yale. Needless to say, spirits were considerably higher this time than last year, when Yale scored twice in the final two minutes to pull off a miraculous victory. Win or lose, however, ’71ers find a way to enjoy each other’s company.

— Jeff Marshall '71

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Are you going to be at the Harvard Game in Princeton on October 21st, 2006? If so, be sure to stop-by Tiger Inn after the Game to celebrate w/ your classmates and friends in the newly appointed Class of ’71 Library. Enjoy fine things to eat and drink, lots of Classmates, and entertainment by one of the famous Princeton A Cappella singing groups.

For more information … CLICK HERE!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Dear Classmate:

This is my first official communication as 71’s Class President, and I want to express my delight and sense of honor to be chosen to serve. If experience is any guide, the last 2 ½ years, in which I’ve served as Class Treasurer, should be immensely helpful in leading this great class for the next five years. I’ve had the opportunity to be fully involved with a great deal of policy and decision-making, from areas like annual giving and regional get-togethers, as well as the 35th Reunion. I’ve also had the privilege of operating the class Website, www.princeton1971.org, which I believe is one of the best and most dynamic websites of any Princeton class, thanks in part to the efforts of many of you.

I’m also proud to be working with a larger and more diverse class management team. As some of you know, for many years, the class was essentially run by a series of small groups of four or five people, essentially the class officers. My goal when I became president was to reach out to a larger group, many of whom have not been previously involved in class management; two of the group are women. I’ve been enamored of the concept of a “high-performing work team,” the kind of cross-functional, dedicated team that I’ve seen in place at companies like the old Digital Equipment Corp., where I once worked (as did new Class Treasurer Rich Hollingsworth). I’m hoping that this group will evolve into just such a team.

So, let me introduce the team that will be working for ’71 over the next five years (those of you who attended the 35th were introduced to a number of them there): Vice President / Chief of Staff, Kathy Molony; Class Secretary and PR czar, Jeff Marshall; Treasurer and our CFO, Rich Hollingsworth (yes, he’s Kathy’s husband, so we have a true “power couple” in the class); Reunions Chair, Gary Walsh; Reunions Vice-Chair, Jack Hittson; co-Class AG Agents, Jon Cieslak and Podie Lynch; Class of 1971 Foundation, Peter Charapko and Henry Barkhorn; Saving the Wild Life Fund, class impresario Stu Rickerson; 1971 Legacy Initiative, Art ‘Prince’ Lowenstein; e-mail czar, Alan Usas; and Webmaster, yours truly.

Let me say a few brief words about the 35th Reunion – really, just a few. There are narratives and photos galore on the www.princeton1971.org site. It was a tremendous event, and the feedback we’ve received has been incredibly gratifying, despite intermittent heavy rain and some logistical issues related to having to set up at a small and, truthfully, inadequate site at Cuyler Hall.

While our turnout was good – at 204 registered, we beat 1970 35th Reunions total by at least 20 bodies! – the fact is that attendance fell short of our target and the Reunion ran over budget. We learned a number of lessons, which we hope to implement for our 40th in five years’ time. I won’t bore you with the details, but this summer we formed a committee, headed by Jack Hittson and Rich Hollingsworth, to explore avenues to reduce or eliminate the shortfall. We’ll be reporting on the results of those efforts later in the year.

And, speaking of money, let me report on two areas that we’ve identified as causes for concern:



A. Annual Giving -- A post-Reunion flurry of calls and appeals helped bring our total to $1.071 million, and a 54.8 percentage participation rate. Those were good numbers in many respects, and the percentage of participation was the highest in a number of years. But it fell well short of our goal of $1.5 million, and the actual total looks pretty anemic when compared to ‘70’s 35th-year gift of $4 million ($3 million excluding a single gift of $1 million.)

Jon and Podie have agreed to team up to find a better working approach to improving our results. In our early years, ’71 set a number of young-alumni giving records, but we can’t rest on our laurels. As Jon notes, there are a number of affluent classmates who seem to give substantially to local causes but not to Princeton; perhaps there’s a sense that other organizations are needier.

Whatever the case, we want to reach out to any “disaffected” classmates and help them understand the value of a gift to Princeton – and remind them of the esteemed place the university holds in the ranks of American education.

B. Class Dues -- The participation rate during the past year was just 35.1 percent, even though dues have remained stable at $50 for many years. The fact is, dues payments defray the costs of producing and mailing the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and we have been carrying a deficit in that account (OBTW … our annual bill for the PAW is ~ $11,000). A special insert can be found in this letter describing our *NEW* four- (4) tier dues structure. The best way to avoid those annoying springtime notices and appeals, frankly, is to fill-out the card and send in your check today! Please note that our *NEW* dues rate going forward will be (appropriately) $71. I'd ask you to consider writing a check or go to the Class Web site and pay-online … today!

Legacy Initiative: This past year, as at our 30th, members of the class gathering for the 35th worked at a project for Habitat for Humanity. In this case, they helped build a modest home in Trenton – in fact, the assembled classmates and their spouses were pictured in the summer Reunions issue of the PAW. Art Lowenstein was the moving force behind the project.

I’ve asked Art to think bigger – to consider ways in which 1971 could truly build more of a legacy. There are obvious models to consider: the Class of 1955, which has been celebrated for its good works, and the Class of 1969, which has created an extensive network of placing Princeton undergrads into various charities / not-for-profits throughout the world. There is far more that 1971 could do, and logically should do, to help others in need, and we will be brainstorming to come up with ideas.

If any of you have any thoughts you want to send to Art, please e-mail him at art_prince@pu71.org.

Class Gatherings: As we transition from the high of a major reunion, we plan to continue the regional gatherings of classmates that we’ve successfully initiated in places like Washington, Boston and San Diego. Kathy Molony will be working to expand that roster of events. Meanwhile, we will continue meeting, as we have in recent years, at the Tiger Inn library for the home H/Y football game ( ... this year, Harvard on Oct. 21), as well as having a gathering at the Yale game in New Haven in November.

A final note, and one that involves Kathy: you’ll note that her title includes “chief of staff,” making her role a truly important one. As an energetic and highly accomplished executive, Kathy will be an important cog in the class machine, and will be asked to become familiar enough with the workings of the class presidency to fill in for me should the need arise. This level of training, and the succession management it implies, are new to ’71, but I feel they are a vital part of a true management team.

1971 comprises a group of terrific individuals, with tremendous talents. We have Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, TV personalities, a governor and eminent lawyers, doctors and corporate executives -- and a lot more. Reunions and gatherings consistently show that our commonalities far exceed our differences; many of us have become friends long after graduation.

I urge you to consider becoming more involved with both the local Princeton community in your area and with this great class.

The class management team and I stand ready to listen to and work with any and all of you to help make it even better.

Sincerely,

Bill Lewis '71

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Women of ’71, along with President Tilghman, at a Reunions breakfast: (1) Rande Brown, (2) Christine Stansell, (3) Ellen Higgins, (4) Deedee Eisenberg, (5) Carla Wilson, (6) Tina Sung, (7) Jane Samuels Herbst, (8) Margret Schwartz Magid, (9) Bettina McAdoo, (10) Linda Carroll, (11) Susan Hill, (12) Deborah Tegarden, (13) Missy Silverman Lipsett, (14) Barbara Croken, (15) President Tilghman, (16) Pamela Oelschlaeger Mushen, (17) Linda Bell Blackburn, (18) Kathy Molony, (19) Susan Glimcher, (20) Deborah Mangham, (21) Phebe Miller Olcay, (22) Barbara Westlake Walker, (23) Rose Peabody Lynch, (24) Roberta Wyper Shell, (25) Mary Livingston Azoy (Photo: Frank Wojciechowski, Diagram: Steven Veach)

Going Back: After 35 years, the pioneering women of ’71 reconnect with each other

By Merrell Noden ’78
The Princeton Alumni Weekly

Upon arriving at Princeton, they were each presented with a yellow chrysanthemum. It was a sweet gesture that now looks like a symbol of something else: The 37 women who would graduate in the Class of 1971 were destined to be canaries in a coal mine of powerful feelings about gender and tradition. So much was about to change for women — not only at Princeton but everywhere else — but when they transferred to Princeton as juniors in the fall of 1969, they were ahead of the curve. They had no idea how much would be asked of them.

“I don’t know how self-aware other 20-year-olds are,” says Deedee Eisenberg ’71. “But I just didn’t recognize how much of a burden it was to be a pioneer.”

When she talks about her two years at Princeton, Eisenberg sounds not so much bitter as rueful. She is proud to have helped organize the University’s first Earth Day celebration, but it was tough being the only woman in the biology department. “I just hadn’t realized that things would be so distorted,” she says. “‘Distorted’ is really the best word for it. There were no women faculty members [in the department], and some of the male faculty were uncomfortable.”

In June Eisenberg came back to Princeton for her 35th reunion. But like a number of women in her class, she came planning to see only the other women, 24 of whom gathered for breakfast Saturday morning at Prospect House. She was excited to meet again women she really had not gotten to know back then, but she was not planning to take part in the P-rade or other activities with her male classmates. Still, Eisenberg was willing to return to campus. Some female classmates have cut their ties completely.

“Isn’t that sad?” says Tina Sung ’71, who organized both the reunion breakfast and a smaller one in Washington, D.C., earlier in the spring. “I’d say one-third of them blame the University for not being ready [to admit women]. But it’s just like immigrants: You go; the country doesn’t know how to accept you; you don’t know what to expect; you’ve got to figure it out. Remember, the whole country was working through this back then.”

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Friday, July 14, 2006

It was a group effort involving a lot of hard work, but the results from the 35th Reunion Annual Giving (AG) campaign that closed June 30 are worth reporting, and celebrating:

• The 54.8 percent participation was the highest the Class has achieved in the past 10 years and our 7th highest ever; and
• The $1,071,986 raised was the third highest ever raised by '71 and sixth highest for all classes in the past year.

Bill Stewart, our out-going Class Agent, wants to recognize a long list of "participation callers" who have been the foundation of Annual Giving efforts in the past five years. They are, in no particular order: Henry Barkhorn, Stephen Mims, Jim Hart, David Chamberlain, Tina Sung, Bill Lewis, Bob Kuenzel, Peter Heyl, Alan Holmer, Ray Huard, Jim Krieg, Jack McNab, Paul Mickey, Jamie Pitney, Jay Pottenger, Chris Connell, Ray Palmer, Chuck Brodbeck, Richard Quay, Mike Twomey, Mike Phelps, Rob Slocum, Jack Hittson, David Williams, and Joel Hoxie. You'll note that this list includes a number of former or current class officers.

Special appreciation, Bill notes, goes to Special Gift Chairs Mark Mazo and Tina Sung, and the AG Special Gifts Commitee of Jon Cieslak, Kevin Baine, Mike Phelps, Mike Decker, Paul Flowerman, Jack Hittson, John Kayser, Lex Kelso, Bill Lewis, Podie Lynch, Kathy Molony, Stu Rickerson, Bill Weigel, Steve Townend, Mark Wine, Henry Barkhorn, Tad Blundon, and Randy Snow. With their help, the $1 million mark was topped without a single gift above $71,000!

Thanks also go to the Annual Giving office, in particular Jessica Walter '01 and Diane Reach, ably mentored by Bruce Freeman '69.

A sizable portion of the money raised came in AFTER the reunion thanks to the concerted efforts of all those named above. Goes to show what teamwork can do ... and it creates a precedent that puts '71 in a strong position to better the result in the 40th Reunion campaign in five years. You'll be hearing more about upcoming AG efforts, which will be co-headed by Jon Cieslak and Podie Lynch, in the coming months.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

From: "Christopher Connell" cconnell@cceditorial.com
Subject: Reunions photos redux
To: "Dr. Wm. Frederick Lewis" BillLewis@prospect-tech.com

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Bill:

Please find that URL below that has a number of excellent photos from our 35th Reunion in June 2006:

http://picasaweb.google.com/CVConnell/PrincetonReunions2006

A lot of these pictures will be familiar to anyone who attended the 2006 Reunions, and especially the Class of 1971's 35th Reunion, but perhaps they are most tantalizing for those who didn't get back this year.

The album captures 30 hours of the weekend, from 2:30 p.m. Friday until 8:30 p.m. Saturday evening, just before the fireworks. In between, shown mostly in chronological order, were the festschrift for John Fleming *63 h71, a panel discussion on changing mores that featured Miguel Firpi '71, the Band performing an abbreviated concert under our Cuyler tent, cocktails and dinner out at the Grad College, President Tilghman's talk to the class during a downpour and her departure with a gift of Fern Mazo's umbrella, Darlene Love taking us back to the '60s, more rain on Saturday morning (including during the class picture at Blair Arch) and more seminars, including Sean Wilentz on the question of W's place in history, the breakfast at Prospect House for the pathbreaking women of '71, calypso during lunch, the P-Rade, the annual 'Prince' party hosted by Larry Dupraz h71 behind 48 University Place, and cocktails, chatter and dinner by Lake Carnegie. Alas, I missed the Party Dolls and the fireworks.

If you've got patience and a good internet connection, click through the P-Rade photos at a fast clip. You'll get the sensation of weaving down campus along the parade route, watching the years fade with every step.

Chris Connell '71

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

It would have taken a flood of biblical proportions to dampen the spirit of the Class of 1971’s 35th Reunion – and that almost happened. But as hard as it rained, and as often – Thursday and Friday nights, Saturday lunchtime – there was something providential about it all, too. The heaviest rain came when the 204 returning classmates (just shy of the 35th record), many accompanied by their spouses, were safely covered by tents. And the rain held off for the most part during Saturday’s P-rade extravaganza.

Especially given all the wet, the reunion came off like clockwork. Tremendous groundwork and preparation by Reunions Chair Ed Stanczak and his wife, Myrna, and Vice Chair Gary Walsh, took classmates to and from the main site at Cuyler Hall to the Graduate College on Friday night and to the Boathouse for Saturday dinner and a final Sunday brunch. The food, by Culinary Creations, was abundant and mostly superb. And we had a front-row seat from the Boathouse Saturday night for a fantastic fireworks display that went on and on, lighting up the night.

The prime appeal of any reunion, of course, is the chance to reconnect and to share memories – and to get to know classmates we may not have known at Princeton. The ’71 Reunion theme, “Savoring the Wildlife,” was spot on; compared to reunions in our earlier days, this was mellower, quieter, more reflective; the number of children was relatively small, and most are grown. Fewer people stayed long into the night; less beer was consumed. It was a time to take stock, to share thoughts about Princeton, careers and families.

But it wasn’t TOO quiet. The buzz under the tents was loud, and smiles and laughter were everywhere. And then, of course, there was the entertainment, put together once again by class impresario Stu Rickerson. There were jazz groups, a capella (the Footnotes sang at the final brunch) and BIG-TIME dance music, highlighted by the Friday night appearance of famed “Wall of Sound” singer Darlene Love and the beehive hairdo/retro Party Dolls. The ’71 tent was the place to be that night, as it was the next night when Liquid Pleasure rocked the house with a collection of danceable oldies.

A few other highlights: a special reunion breakfast on Saturday for 24 of the women of ’71, arranged by Tina Sung; the carillon concert during Friday’s cocktail hour, before the heavens opened; a class photo on the steps snapped as our umbrellas were lowered; and stimulating alumni forums that featured some 10 members of ’71.

President Mike Phelps ably presided over his final event as president, and a new slate of class officers was inducted for the coming five years. Treasurer and Webmaster Bill Lewis was promoted to President, and these other positions were filled: Vice President / Chief-of-Staff, Kathy Molony; Class Secretary, Jeff Marshall; Treasurer, Rich Hollingsworth; Class Agents, Jon Cieslak and Podie Lynch; and 40th Reunion Chair, Gary Walsh.

Other ’71 Management Team positions include: Art ‘Prince’ Lowenstein heading up the ’71 Legacy Initiative; Alan Usas continues as our e-mail Czar; Stu Rickerson, Saving the Wild Life (STWL); Peter Charapko and Henry Barkhorn providing the needed leadership of our ’71 Foundation; and Jack Hittson as Vice Reunion Chair.

The Class of ’71 will also be adding a Planned Giving Chair. This position will be filled over the next 6 – 12 months.

Comments and e-mails during and just after the Reunion made one thing clear: people had a terrific time – proof once again that when it comes to Reunions, ’71 steps up and does it up grand.

And now the 40th is just a short five years off!

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

And a Few Stalwarts Determined to `Save the Wildlife’

By Chris 'Pens' Connell

Princeton, NJ -- What could Stu Rickerson do for an encore at our 35th after producing Smokey Robinson for our 25th? He pulled another entertainment miracle out of his hat, that’s what.

It was a little like our own Woodstock last Friday night of our 35th Princeton reunion, right down to the torrential rains and mud – and the incomparable Darlene Love singing her greatest hits of the ‘60s on stage inside a jam-packed Class of 1971 tent in the courtyard of Cuyler Hall.

You know her, or you know her voice.

Wearing a colorful top custom-made from the same material as the class multi-striped blazer, Love sang a litany of her greatest hits: He's A Rebel, Da Doo Ron Ron, He's Sure The Boy I'm Gonna Marry, Goin' to the Chapel. Introducing Christmas Baby Please Come Home, she said, “This is Mister David Letterman’s favorite – and maybe it’s yours, too.” Suddenly it was, as she remarked, “Christmas in Princeton” in June.

It was the hottest show in the hottest tent on campus, a wall of music produced by a 67-year-old grandmother who recorded most of these songs with her girl group, the Blossoms – and years later had to sue Phil Spector for even a smidgen of the royalties. The Party Dolls followed her to the stage and kept things rocking under the big tent in the courtyard of Cuyler Hall until 2 a.m.

Reunion Chair Ed Stanczak was rewarded for his and Myrna’s hard labors with a turn as one of the guys that Love danced with during He's Sure The Boy I'm Gonna Marry. So was Rickerson.

Love is currently on Broadway as Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray. Movie buffs also know Love as Danny Glover's better half in the Lethal Weapons movies. Her appearance was brought to us not by dues money or even Reunion registration fees, but by a few class stalwarts who refuse to act their age and the Save the Wildlife Fund.

Monday, June 05, 2006

While the news media is peppered each June w/ references to Princeton Reunions, this year's celebration delighted the media for many different reasons.

President Clinton spoke at Class Day and was presented to an exuberate crowd by President Bush’s niece as well as the son of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist ’74. Humorist David Sedaris delighted members of the class of 2006 at Princeton University's Baccalaureate service on Sunday, June 4, with a fanciful tale describing what Princeton was like when he was a student.

And our own Mitch Daniels ’71 was featured in the Indianapolis Star as "… return[ing] to college for a little 'wretched excess' ..."

• Behind Closed Doors: Daniels returns to college for a little 'wretched excess' -- IndyStar.com -- June 3, 2006
• When patricide was a PU major: David Sedaris gives Baccalaureate gathering a hilarious look back -- The Princeton Packet -- June 6, 2006 (CLICK HERE for more on David Sedaris' Baccalaureate!)
• Proud to be orange and black: Princeton alums shows off colors at annual P-Rade -- Trenton Times -- June 4, 2006
• History of Reunions wear on display through July 28: Going Back in Orange and Black -- Princeton Univ. -- May 30th, 2006
• Setting the scene: There's nothing simple about preparations for Reunions at Princeton -- The Princeton Packet -- May 30, 2006.
• Former president Clinton delivers Class Day address -- The Prince -- June 5, 2006

Saturday, May 27, 2006

The weather is forecasted to be warm and sunny w/ the chance of occasionally showers on Saturday. And in fact, each day may reach 80^o w/ overnight lows near 60^o making it perfect Princeton Reunions Weather!

If you click on the graphic below, you can see the latest forecast of Princeton Reunions weather.



CLICK ON the image above ... for more information!

Saturday, May 20, 2006

So what do Azoy, Baine, Bobbitt, Bright, Gwynne, Firpi, Fleming, Lewis, Loughlin, and Richardson all have in common? Or more importantly what does this esteemed group have to say at Reunions ’06?

On topics from Love and marriage, Security in the 21st Century, Retirement, The High-tech boom, Nature and conservation, Estate Planning, The Supreme Court, to questions whether we are burning out our kids, ‘71ers will be featured on different panels, presentations, and lectures all over the Princeton campus.

Take a look at the table below to find the time / date / location of one of your Classmates speaking during our 35th Reunion celebration.

#	Name	Topic	Date / Time	Location
1	Kevin Loughlin ‘71	Retirement of the Baby Boomers	06/02/06 10:30 AM	Betts Auditorium / School of Architecture
2	Bill Lewis ‘71	After The Boom: Tech Companies Today (The Princeton Entrepreneurs Conference)	06/02/06 11:30 AM	Friend Center for Engineering Education
3	Prof. John Fleming h’71	Gladly Lerne, Glady Teche (This is a special lecture on the occasion of Prof Fleming’s retirement)	06/02/06 1:30 PM	Frist Campus Center; Room 302
4	Phil Bobbitt ‘71	Security in the 21st Century: Home and Beyond	06/02/06 2:30 PM	McCosh 50
5	John Gwynne ‘71	Nature Wars: Stories from the conservation arena	06/02/06 2:30 PM	McCosh 10
6	Miguel Firpi ‘71	Courtship, Love, and Marriage: Have Relationships Changed?	06/02/06 2:30 PM	Betts Auditorium / School of Architecture
7	James Richardson ‘71	Nassau Literature Review: Reunions Reading series	06/02/06 4:30 PM	Aaron Burr Hall; Room 219
8	Jim Bright ‘71	Estate Planning Seminar	06/03/06 8:45 AM	Frist Campus Center; Multipurpose Room B
9	Kevin Baine ‘71	Roberts Court: Year One	06/03/06 9:15 AM	McCosh 50
10	Mary Livingston Azoy ‘71	Are we burning out our kids?	06/03/06 10:30 AM	Betts Auditorium / School of Architecture

Friday, May 19, 2006

So what happend in the world while the Class of 1971 was attending Princeton?

Here is a small list:



• Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinated
• Neil Armstrong is first man to walk on the moon
• Woodstock happens
• Voting age lowered to 18 by 26th Amendment
• Four students killed by National Guard at Kent State
• Premier of Monday Night Football
• Arab-Israeli 6-day war
• First Earth Day on April 21st
• First heart transplant in US
• Hair premiers on Broadway
• Muhammad Ali stripped of heavyweight title for refusing induction into US Army.
• Soviet invasion ends Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring.
• Texas Instruments introduces first pocket calculator
• The first draft lottery since 1942 occurs
• Walt Disney World opens
• Yale and Vassar go coed.
• Amana introduces first microwave oven in US.
• Beatles split up
• The Boeing 747 is introduced
• Bob Dylan receives honorary doctorate at Princeton
• Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Broadway Joe Namath leads the NY Jets over the Baltimore Colts in Superbowl III
• Compact Discs are developed
• First NYC marathon attracts 125 runners
• First US ATM is installed in Philadelphia
• Green Bay defeats Kansas City in Superbowl I
• Intel releases the 4004, the first microprocessor
• Sesame Street premiers.
• The Great Class of 1971 graduates
• The Internet's development begins in a UCal lab.
• The Miracle Mets win the World Series
• Aristotle Onassis and Jackie Kennedy wed.
• First issue of Rolling Stone magazine (May, 2006 is the 1000th issue)
• Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin die from drug overdoses 2
• Princeton receives some of Apollo 14's 100 lbs of moon rocks 2
• Mickey Mantle retires
• War by Edwin Starr is a big hit
• Andy Warhol wounded in murder attempt
• Elvis and Priscilla marry
• Harlem Globetrotters winning streak of 2,495 games is broken.
• Jim Morrison found dead in Paris
• MLB pitcher's mound lowered 5"
• New Orleans Saints record their first victory ever.
• Premier of "All Things Considered" on NPR
• Soft contact lenses receive FDA approval

Monday, May 15, 2006

Ed Stanczak '71, Class of 1971 Reunions Chair, announced today the daily rates for our 35th Reunion in June 2006. They are:



• Classmates: $271
• Spouses / Guest: $171
• Child: $71

This fee includes: 1) the cost of admission for the day; 2) *NEW* costume(s) items including a golf shirt w/ our 35th Reunions logo, hat, pins, and a swanky '71 umbrella sure to make all in your golf four-some jealous; 3) meals and beverages for the day, 4) a copy of the 35th Reunion Book containing over 250 *NEW* Bios; and 5) live entertainment and special activities including any P-Rade accoutrements.

The Class of '71 on-line registration portal has already been modified. So ... if you can only make only one day ... CLICK HERE to register ... NOW!

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Princeton, NJ -- It was announced today that "Savoring the 'Girl Groups of the 60's and 70's," will be the theme of the Class of 1971's Friday night entertainment at its 35th Reunion, June 2, 2006 on the Princeton University Campus. The evening will feature Darlene Love, the internationally known recording star, and The Party Dolls, a long-standing favorite Reunion dance band.

Ms. Love, who headlines the show in a performance set to begin at 10 p.m., "was the 'voice' on so many of the original 'Girl Group hits of the Sixties, and virtually all of the 'Wall of Sound' hits," says Stu Rickerson, 1971's Reunion Entertainment Chairman. Officially, she was lead singer on a number of hits, but her voice is recognizable as lead on most of The Crystals' songs, from "He's a Rebel" and "Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry" to "He's Sure the Boy I Love" and "Da Doo Ron Ron".

Other hits include "Johnny Angel", "River Deep, Mountain High", "The Shoop Shoop Song", "Wait 'til My Bobby Gets Home", "A Fine, Fine Boy", "You've Lost that Loving Feelin'" and "Not Too Young (to Get Married)." She appears on The Letterman Show each December to sing what music director Paul Shaffer calls "the greatest holiday song ever written," "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". Her acting is also widely known, especially as Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movies, and she's currently starring on Broadway in Hairspray as "Motormouth Mabel." Ms. Love's appearance made possible by gifts to the Class of 1971 Save the WILD Life Fund.

Opening the show at 9 p.m., and then following Ms. Love's performance, will be The Party Dolls at the Class of 1971's 35th Reunion Site on the Princeton Campus.

"The the ever-popular Party Dolls have a long tradition of performing for the Class of 1971," said Mr. Rickerson. "In fact, they kicked-off our 35th Reunion year at a special Thursday night event on May 26th, 2005, making this the longest Reunion in Princeton history. The Party Dolls also played 5 and 10 years ago," he added," at our Major Reunions. Like the bunny on television, The Party Dolls just keep going and going."

1971's Twenty-Fifth Reunion, which coincided with Princeton University's 250th Founding Celebration and the 100th anniversary of the college taking the name "Princeton University," was headlined by Smokey Robinson, who wrote many Motown standards.

This year's event coincides with the 250th Anniversary of the completion of Nassau Hall, the college's oldest building and one time temporary home of the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War against England.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

New Urbanist Leader Duany Forges Ahead With His Ideas For Rebuilding New Orleans

By DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON and THADDEUS HERRICK
The Wall Street Journal

NEW ORLEANS -- Standing in the buff-colored sanctuary of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church here, Andres Duany '71, the high priest of the New Urbanist city-planning movement, laid down a challenge to the 375 people who jammed the pews to hear his vision for the city's sprawling Gentilly section.

"The question is whether you want to go back to Aug. 28," he told the group, "or into the 21st century."

More than eight months after Katrina's Aug. 29 arrival flooded 80% of New Orleans, a process for answering that question is finally emerging for tens of thousands of residents who still must decide whether to rebuild their homes and what they want their neighborhoods to look like if they do.

Several large New Orleans neighborhoods, frustrated with the paralysis that set in among city officials after Katrina, are pushing ahead with developing their own reconstruction plans for their sections of the city. At the same time, city and state leaders this week are furiously working to cobble together a framework that will blend all of the plans -- including ones developed by teams of architects and planners working with the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the New Orleans City Council -- to create a master rebuilding plan by the end of the year.

Mr. Duany's Miami-based architecture and planning firm, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., has played a major role in planning the reconstruction of the hurricane-devastated areas of Mississippi and some areas of Louisiana outside New Orleans. He was invited in April by the Gentilly Civic Improvement Association, a neighborhood group, to help draw up a plan for the area that stretches north and east from near the middle of the city. The group had no money to pay for the work. But in hopes of showcasing New Urbanism in a city whose history, scale and layout have tremendous appeal to the movement's followers, Mr. Duany has covered more than $150,000 in costs for himself and about a dozen members of his firm, as well as some of the expenses of some 40 volunteer planners, engineers and architects. He will be reimbursed for some of that, however, through grants from private foundations.

Even though the city's most historic neighborhoods, such as the French Quarter and the Garden District remained dry after the storm, Mr. Duany says New Orleans represents "the planning Super Bowl," and a player in the game has to be New Urbanism, which has worked over the last quarter century to popularize traditional, walkable development as an alternative to suburban sprawl. "We don't want to be left out," Mr. Duany told the group's April 20 meeting.

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Friday, April 28, 2006

Friday dinner at the Graduate College and Saturday night and Sunday brunch at the Boathouse on Lake Carnegie are but a few of the many events that the Reunions Committee has planned for the Class of 1971’s 35th Reunion in Princeton on June 1 – 4, 2006.

Dancing to the sounds of the Party Dolls and Liquid Pleasure will also be featured on Friday and Saturday nights, respectively, at the Reunions Headquarters of the Culyer / 1903 courtyards. Plus, nearly 160 of our Classmates have already registered! CLICK HERE to see who will in Tigertown this June.

CLICK HERE to go on-line to register or download the registration forms so you don’t miss this fantastic event!

The preliminary schedule can be seen below:



CLICK ON the grapic above to enlarge the image!(As of 04/29/06!)

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Have you contacted Art ‘Prince’ Lowenstein about coming back early to our 35th Reunion to help out with this year’s Community Service Project?

As many of you know, the Class of 1971 has had a long tradition of participating in some sort of a Community Service Project during each major Reunion. Those of you who came back to our 30th remember the construction project in the Trenton area in which the Class participated along w/ the Classes of 1946 and 1996. This worth-while effort was in support of the local Habitat for Humanity …

• CLICK HERE to send Art 'Prince' an e--mail asking for more information!

• CLICK HERE to read more!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

The Class of 1971’s Reunion Book team of Rich Hollingsworth, Don Mancini, and Debbie Tegarden, has completed the editing process of our bios and have now submitted them and assorted copy, photos, and cover letters to our publisher. Due to the combined snail-mail, e-mail push, and telephone calls, over 250 bios – a modern Reunion record! -- have been entered into the on-line system and transmitted to the publisher.

This effort – allowing for final edits and copy / content review – will have some 800+ books delivered to the Princeton Campus in time for our 35th Reunion in June 2006. All registered for Reunion will receive a book … free!

Thanks to our Reunion Book team and all associated w/ this process for making the generation of our book … a marvel of 21st Century technology and efficiency!

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

The deadline is also approaching on accepting biographical information for the Yearbook. Due to the mechanical requirements of editing and printing in order to produce the yearbook by Reunions, the drop-dead date for taking bios is April 7. Don’t be a “TLTBI” – too late to be included.

Many classmates have entered information in the past couple of weeks, using the fast and simple utility on the website (see the link in the yearbook section for “add bio”). Up to two electronic photos can also be attached, or pre-digital photos can be mailed to Rich Hollingsworth: 73 Bartlett Hill Road, Concord, MA 01742. Rich has his scanner cranked up and ready to go!

Need to check to see if you did fill-out your bio? CLICK HERE!

CLICK HERE to fill-out your bio!

Monday, March 27, 2006

The clock is ticking… If you haven’t registered yet, you probably deserve 20 lashes with a wet noodle. But now you can redeem yourself with a bit of March Madness on the part of the Reunion Committee: Register by March 31 and you are entered into a drawing for a FREE classmate registration. That’s almost a $500 saving! Mike Potter won the last free registration drawing in December, so this benefit is very real.

The Reunion Committee has noted that a good number of regular reunion-goers haven’t yet registered. Hopefully, that’s just procrastination. Consider doing it today, and you get the added inducement of the drawing. Is there anything better than getting it for nothing?

https://www.princeton1971.org/reunions/Step1.asp

Friday, March 03, 2006

As many of you know, the Class of 1971 has had a long tradition of participating in some sort of a Community Service Project during each major Reunion. Those of you who came back to our 30th remember the construction project in the Trenton area in which the Class participated along w/ the Classes of 1946 and 1996. This worth-while effort was in support of the local Habitat for Humanity.

Our Community Service Chair for the 35th, Art 'Prince' Lowenstein, reports that good progress is underway for this June's project. As Art writes in a recent e-mail to your trusty Webmaster:

Greetings Bill!

As you know, the Class has decided to continue our tradition of working with the local Princeton area chapter of Habitat for Humanity for our Reunions Service project, and I am happy to report that we are making progress in sorting out the details, which I would appreciate your circulating to the Class. I have been in touch with the Trenton chapter of Habitat and have spoken with both the director and the volunteer coordinator, and it looks like we are a go for Thursday, June 1st, which corresponds to the timing of the project in prior Reunion years. The Trenton chapter is under construction right now with two two-family homes, one of which is scheduled to be completed in May and the other in June, so it is likely that we will be working on some aspects of one or both of those houses.

It would be great if the Class could be well represented at the worksite(s) on June 1st. If you haven't ever participated in a Habitat project, you don't have to have a master's in carpentry to make a difference. The last time I worked on one of their projects they realized early on that keeping a hammer out of my hands was the most effective way for me to participate, and they kept me busy with a bunch of tasks, ranging from moving materials to set-up to clean-up. It was fun and it was really rewarding. Most important, it gave me an insight into what Habitat does and how effective it can be that I couldn't have grasped from any presentation or written materials. I would really encourage all classmates, their spouses and their kids to embrace this project. It will add a different and and satisfying dimension to what promises to be a fantastic weekend.

Anyone who wants more information about the Trenton chapter of Habitat can look them up online at www.habitatnj.org. There are some pictures of active construction projects that I suspect are the ones we might be involved in. I would request that anyone who has questions or knows that they want to help out contact me at lowenstein@thshlaw.com so I can begin to get a head count, which is the one thing that the Habitat coordinator requested when I spoke with him. Obviously anyone contacting me is not committed, but it will help to get an idea of how many of us can make it. Annie will be there with me; as you know, she is the one who wields the hammer ( ... and does the basic plumbing and electrical work!) in our house. I hope you will be able to join us.

I am sure there will be Classmates who want to support this project but who can't make it to Trenton on the 1st or who are not coming back to Reunions and are out of the area. I think it really would be great if those Classmates used this opportunity to get involved with Habitat chapters in projects in their local areas and, if possible, if they let me know they were doing so, so we could keep a record of the extent of our Class involvement with Habitat this Reunion year. There is an easy way for Classmates to find out about what is happening in their areas: they can go to the main Habitat website, www.habitat.org, and scroll down the right side of the screen until they find the link to local affiliates, then use those links to hook up with the chapters in their communities.

This year more than ever, in light of Katrina and the other natural disasters that have affected our country and other areas around the world, it sends the right message that the Class makes a real commitment to Community Service, and what better way for us to demonstrate that commitment than to roll up our sleeves on one of these Habitat projects.

Regards,

Art

Thursday, March 02, 2006

All Classmates registering before March 31st, 2006 are eligible to win a *FREE* 35th Reunion.

Please go to the URL below to register:

https://www.princeton1971.org/reunions/Step1.asp

OBTW … why not fill-out your Reunion Book bio on-line? The ‘cut-off’ date is April 7th, 2006 and input will not be accepted after that date. To fill out your bio, please go to:

www.princeton1971.org/YearBook/ybstep1.asp

Saturday, February 25, 2006

On March 1st, 2006 the Class of 1971 Reunions fees increase from $425 to $471 for Class members, from $325 to $371 for spouses, and from $71 to $100 for children.

Please go to the URL below to register *NOW* before the 03/01/06 price increase:

https://www.princeton1971.org/reunions/Step1.asp

NB … all Classmates registering before March 31st, 2006 are eligible to win a *FREE* 35th Reunion.

OBTW … why not fill-out your Reunion Book bio on-line? The ‘cut-off’ date is April 7th, 2006 and input will not be accepted after that date. To fill out your bio, please go to:

www.princeton1971.org/YearBook/ybstep1.asp

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Moss aims to focus on work with broad impact on society

By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | February 15, 2006

MIT has tapped entrepreneur and technology executive Frank Moss '71 as the new director of its fabled Media Laboratory at a time when the lab, which helped popularize the 1990s digital revolution, is seeking to broaden its base of corporate sponsors and refocus its high-tech research on fields like aging, healthcare, and education.

Moss, 56, has run software, computer, and life sciences companies during a 25-year business career. He succeeds media lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte, a leading light of the technology convergence movement, who stepped down as chairman in September 2000 to devote most of his time to One Laptop per Child, a nonprofit group working to distribute computers in the developing world.

Walter Bender, who has been interim director of the media lab since Negroponte stepped down, will take a two-year leave from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to serve as president for software development at the One Laptop organization.

Moss began working full time at the media lab this week, and has been meeting with its 30 faculty members and senior scientists and its 300 graduate student researchers. In an interview, he said he would concentrate more resources on fields that will have a broad impact on society in the coming decade. Moss said he also hoped to increase the number and type of sponsors, complete fund-raising to build a new media lab building, forge closer ties with other MIT labs, and accelerate efforts to push media lab research into the marketplace.

''In many ways, it's a business," Moss said, suggesting the media lab may conduct more research into projects of interest to its corporate sponsors. ''You have to strike a balance between having academic freedom and doing different types of research, and having the work sponsored by companies that want to see research commercialized. At the media lab, we may have to go a step further than we've done in the past and build prototypes with sponsors."

The media lab, which opened in 1985, has pioneered cutting-edge research in electronic ink, wearable computing, digital and holographic video, electronic field sensing, and wireless networks. During the roaring 1990s, companies from around the world funded media lab research and sent representatives to Kendall Square in Cambridge to soak up its unstructured ''demo-or-die" culture. Often Negroponte waxed eloquent in Wired Magazine and other technology forums about the emerging digital lifestyle and the convergence of computing, telecommunications, and media.

In the lab's first two decades, Negroponte said in an e-mail from Europe, he helped usher in ''an era of extreme interdisciplinary formation of a very unlikely group of people working at the lunatic fringe of science and technology."

''When people ask me what was the most important achievement at the lab," he said, ''I typically reply: its existence. It was founded with the idea that the invention and creative use of new media would advance both technology and creative expression."

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Friday, February 17, 2006

That locomotive you hear faintly in the distance isn’t coming from Amtrak or the Union Pacific – it’s the sound that will be echoing around the Princeton campus in a few months when the P-rade kicks off and the assorted reunion classes make their triumphal march down to Poe Field. And ’71 will be taking its rightful, prideful place in the procession for its 35th Reunion, ‘Savoring the Wildlife.’

The ’71 Reunion Committee is hard at work to make this the best reunion ever, with terrific meals at venues like the Grad College, with its wide lawns, and the boathouse at Lake Carnegie. There will be great bands on Friday and Saturday to rock to – no Swing Era stuff here, thank you – a Friday night reception off campus at the home of Fred Lepore, our customary remembrance for the classmates who are no longer with us, and much more. Wonderful food and wine for dinner, of course. And you don’t have to wait for Friday to start the festivities. For early arrivals, there will be a coffeehouse on Thursday night.

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Monday, February 06, 2006

As many of us know, Tom Wharton ’71 has spent a life-time in the film industry wearing such hats as film producer, grip, electrician, assistant cameraman, and investor. Recently, Tom has focused his advising and investing energies in a most moving film on the Asian sex trafficking business called ‘The Day My God Died’. This exceptional movie was shown at Princeton in 2003 and has received rave reviews as well as many kudos and awards.

The Asia Society of New York will show this fine film on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006 at their 725 Park Avenue location. Please CLICK HERE for reservations and other information.

Please join Tom and several other ‘71ers to see this most important film.

For more information on this film as well as learning how to become involved, please CLICK HERE.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Want to see some of our *FINAL* concepts for the Class of 1971 35th Reunion Logo for this June 2006?

Not only do we have a potential logos to be culled from a Class of 1971 collage, done for our Reunions Chair, Ed Stanczak, but our own artist supreme, David Chamberlain, has even had his hand in some logo-design!

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

The Class of 1971 has awarded a *FREE* 35th Reunion to:

Mr. Michael Potter ’71

of Chapel Hill, NC.

Michael’s name was selected via lottery today and will be awarded a *FREE* admission to our 35th in June 2006.

Why not sign up for Reunions 2006 today and be eligible for our March 2006 lottery to win another *FREE* Reunion? Your Reunion Committee will conduct another lottery at that time.

CLICK HERE to register for Reunions 2006 today!

Friday, December 30, 2005

Ron Riner will be leading a group of 71’ers who will assist in phoning classmates to encourage their participation in our upcoming 35th reunion. We are dividing call responsibilities by regions and by clubs. The regions will include:

• Northwest
• Southwest
• Northeast
• Southeast
• Midwest
• South

Phone numbers will be supplied. Anyone wishing to work with Ron on this activity should email him at rriner@rinergroup.com or call 1-800-965-8485.

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Sign up for the Class of 1971’s 35th Reunion by December 31, 2005 and be eligible to win a *FREE* 35th!

You trusty Reunions committee will be holding a lottery of all the Classmates that have registered for Reunions 2006 by 12/31. If chosen, the Winner will be able to attend their 35th for FREE! (The Winner will be announced in January 2006!)

Those not chosen will be eligible for our March 2006 drawing. So … sign up today to win a *FREE* 35th Reunion!

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Friday, December 16, 2005

When: June 1-June 4, 2006
Theme: Still Savoring the Wildlife

Okay, it’s probably a little early to start counting the days. But it’s not too far out to start counting the months to the great Class of 1971’s 35th Reunion.

You’ve probably noted that the theme for our upcoming extravaganza, Savoring the Wildlife, is a gentle play on our earlier tagline of “saving” the wildlife. Now that we’re added a touch (or more) of gray, lost the locks or just added a few pounds, we’re also more mature, more worldly and indeed, ready to savor experiences that come our way.

Like the next reunion, which is shaping up as a hard-to-miss event. If you’ve been on campus in recent years for a reunion, you know first-hand how good it can be to reconnect with friends old and new, relive the sights and sounds of Old Nassau and enjoy spectacular food, drink and entertainment. There’s a wonderful opportunity to reflect on what we’ve done and seen, and what we can still accomplish. And to remember how to boogie down with those oldies from the ‘60s and ‘70s as the band catches a groove and the night gets on!

You may remember the great wine tastings from the 25th and 30th reunions. There will be lots of similar highlights from the upcoming get-together, which will kick off Thursday night with an evening coffeehouse, for decompressing and catching up. On Friday, an afternoon service of remembrance will be followed by an evening cocktail party at the nearby home of Fred Lepore ’71.

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Sunday, November 27, 2005

By George F. Will *68 P03

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana likes having the nation's highest portion of workers -- 20 percent -- in manufacturing, so five days before Delphi, the Michigan-based automobile parts maker, entered bankruptcy, Gov. Mitch Daniels '71, a Republican who believes "conservatism can be active," called Delphi and praised Indiana as a paradise for even more Delphi operations than are already there.

Michigan's Democratic governor, Jennifer Granholm, responded to Delphi's travails differently, denouncing Delphi's executives, Washington and globalization. In the game of entrepreneurial federalism -- states competing to lure businesses -- score one for the Hoosier State, which in the four years before Daniels became governor had a net loss of jobs.

In the division between social conservatives, who emphasize nurturing virtue, and libertarian conservatives, who emphasize expanding liberty by limiting government, Daniels is with the latter. For example, regarding immigration, an issue that dramatizes this division, many social conservatives are restrictionists, but Daniels, whose state's population is, he says, "getting older and not growing," welcomes immigrants, who usually are "young people with dreams -- a good development."

After graduating from Princeton and Georgetown law school, Daniels came home to this city to work for its then-mayor, Richard Lugar. After eight years as chief of Lugar's U.S. Senate staff and two years as director of political operations in President Reagan's White House, Daniels came home again, to work in business and for a think tank for 13 years.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Our 35th Reunion warm-up continued in Princeton on November 12th as Princeton hosted Yale in football and the Class hosted the Old Guard, the Class of 1970, at our traditional post-game festivities at Tiger Inn.

The outcome of the game was as familiar as your favorite worn out jeans, but not nearly as comfortable. Yale came back to pull the game out in the last few minutes for the (… fill in the blank yourself) time since November 1967.

No matter. Those in attendance at TI did their best to erase the memories of the debacle on the field. Mark Mazo reported that ‘… the cocktail party was packed and great fun and the Tigerlilies were as good as ever – but the strongest performance continues to be from Stu Rickerson. He told the crowd that he and several 71ers from Tiger Inn are endowing the library expansion at TI with the express condition that the expanded library will be available for the Class of 1971 Cocktail Party for as long as we are a Class (… and that will be a long time). Stu is a remarkable man and a real treasure. He is thinner than he was at Reunions, but his spirit and determination are stronger than ever.’

In addition to Mark and Stu, Classmates sighted at TI or around campus during the weekend included (retired from the State Department and now teaching at the Woodrow Wilson School), Marshall Burack, Randy Snow (who recently opened his own money management firm, R.E. Snow Private Wealth Management Group, in Boca Raton), Jay Bagdis, Jack Hittson, Scott Muller, Tina Sung, Henry Barkhorn, Art Lowenstein, Al Usas, Doug Pike, Richard Williams, Mike Pepper, Ron Sensezak, Steve Townend, Mike Mims, Ed Chambliss and Rich DeFidele (who hit the bad luck trifecta earlier this year, with heart problems (now under control), an automobile accident in the family (no one hurt) and a flooded out dining room (dried out at last) – hopefully 2006 will be a big improvement). Apologies to any other classmates overlooked; it was kind of crowded.

-- Art ‘Prince’ Lowenstein ‘71
November 16th, 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005

Are you going back for the Yale Game on 11/12/05? If you are be sure to get tickets to the 114th Triangle Club Production called ‘Excess Hollywood’ performing both Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 PM in McCarter Theater.

Plus, be sure to attend the Class of 1971 Annual Big Three Cocktail Party in the Library at Tiger Inn after the Yale Game. There will be wonderful beverages and refreshments and amidst the Class of ‘71 family and friends. We will also be serenaded by the award winning, all female a Cappella group the Tigerlillies …



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Saturday, November 05, 2005

With wins over defending Ivy champ Harvard and nemesis Penn, Princeton enters the Yale game tied for first place in the Ivy League with Brown ...

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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Greetings from Princeton!

We wish to cordially invite you to a special “Day at Princeton University” for the Class of 1971 on November 11-12, 2005.

This gathering is designed for members of the Class to reconnect with Princeton through informal seminars and engaging panel discussions with University professors, students, and administrators, in honor of your 35th Reunion.

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Sunday, October 23, 2005

From the 10/23/05 Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Peter McLaughlin '71 was in north Minneapolis - a part of the city he claims Mayor R.T. Rybak has all but ignored - standing in a bakery surrounded by cracked sidewalks, broken promises and rattled nerves. He pumped the hand of a teenager sporting double-studded earrings and asked whether he played basketball.

"I was a ... guard," said the broad-shouldered McLaughlin, who looks more like a football player. "I scored 38 points in one game."

McLaughlin is hoping to again score big after two decades of in-the-trenches work as a legislator and Hennepin County commissioner. But he will have to fight through some significant challenges to become the next Minneapolis mayor. With just two weeks before the Nov. 8 election, McLaughlin is facing the reality that he is strong in the city's neighborhoods where voter turnout is often low and has a résumé that, while impressive, does not translate into a TV sound bite.

In the September primary, McLaughlin beat Rybak in one North Side precinct -- but got just nine votes.

The need to get voters in north Minneapolis to the polls is one reason McLaughlin has made crime a central campaign theme. On the morning of his visit to the bakery, two cars chasing each other in north Minneapolis struck a third car, killing a woman. On the same day, McLaughlin talked of meeting a man on the North Side whom he said strapped on a pistol before going out to mow the lawn.

"No doubt about it, Peter is strong around here," said Don Samuels, a City Council member from north Minneapolis who is supporting Rybak.

In his campaign office, tucked next to a pest control company, McLaughlin acknowledged difficulty in making public policy achievements pay off politically.

He described the kinds of policymaking exploits he's proudest of, but that may not excite the average voter. He told of a meeting he had as a young urban activist in the late 1970s with Gov. Rudy Perpich on an affordable-housing project. He recalled how he practically filibustered a major recycling bill at the Legislature in the late 1980s because he did not like its impact on Hennepin County.

Even critics agree McLaughlin's effort was pivotal to bringing about Minnesota's first light rail line.

Rybak, he said, has paid no such dues. "The city cannot afford four more years of pretty speeches," he said, referring to Rybak's ability to deflect critics and charm voters with his style.

Though the rugged-looking McLaughlin himself cuts a striking figure and handles the public spotlight fluidly, he seems most comfortable discussing policy implications at a Medicare reform task force meeting. His three-page, single-spaced résumé lists 13 public policy committees he currently sits on.

McLaughlin's strength, said Mark Stenglein, a Hennepin County commissioner, is that, as an experienced policymaker, he does not hold a grudge and realizes that, in politics, today's enemy may be tomorrow's ally.

"Can you imagine the current mayor acting that way?" said Stenglein, who is backing McLaughlin.

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Saturday, October 22, 2005

McCareins' 93-Yard Return Leads Princeton To Dramatic 27-24 Win Over Harvard

Tigers end 9-year drought to Crimson and maintain control of own destiny in league race.

Jay McCareins '06

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its finest team effort of the season, the Princeton football team rallied in the fourth quarter and ended a nine-year drought against Harvard with a 27-24 victory in front on 12,023 at Harvard Stadium. The Class of 2006 led the way, especially in the 14 seconds of the fourth quarter that Princeton trailed.

A 52-yard touchdown pass from Liam O'Hagan to Ryan Tyler gave Harvard a 24-20 lead with 7:21 remaining in the fourth quarter. It was the first time Princeton trailed in the game, but it wouldn't last long. Senior Jay McCareins, who has all but cemented his status as a First-Team All-Ivy selection, took the ensuing kickoff and returned it 93 yards for a touchdown. Its first kickoff return for a touchdown since 1992, the play gave Princeton a lead that it simply would not relinquish to the defending Ivy League champion.

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Friday, September 16, 2005

Dear Classmate:

Sound the trumpets! It is time to start moving into high gear to prepare for our 35th Reunion.

Our class is extremely fortunate to have the outstanding organizational abilities of our Reunion Chair Ed Stanczak. He is making sure that all of the details are handled in a manner that will guarantee success. Ed's lovely wife Myrna is an invaluable member of the Reunions Team as well. In addition, we are very happy to have Reunions Chair Emeritus Supremo Stu Rickerson (assisted by his spouse, long-time companion and 15th Reunion Crew Chief Nancy Jones '87) to be lending his considerable knowledge and talents in lining up the musical groups and various other aspects of preparation for our Reunion. Although our 25th and 30th will be hard to beat, we plan on this Reunion being our best!

As we get closer to our 35th Reunion, let us continue to strive to remain in closer contact with one another by using our many available resources, such as our outstanding class Web site (www.princeton1971.org), our e-mail discussion group, PAW Class Notes, and attending our various ’71 regional gatherings.

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Friday, September 02, 2005

Bill - Please post this if you think it would interest the class. I have had several inquiries.

My hometown, Jackson, Mississippi, is 180 miles inland, but Katrina did not spare us. Nevertheless, our family is okay. We did not have any property damage. And, now, after four-days of down time, our offices are open and we can get to the internet again. Son Charlie had to drive to Dallas in order to make his flight to Cuba, where he is studying this semester. Margaret is here with us but will return to Bowdoin on Sunday. Mary Reid's school here will start up next Tuesday, we think, with a significant number of new students from the coast and New Orleans.

Briefly, our 1920s neighborhood lost a lot of trees and power lines. We still do not have electricity at home and are not likely to have it for a while. Since Monday we have lived without electricity, refrigeration, television, the internet, and the New York Times. So many of you know more about what has happened elsewhere than we do. The worst thing in our neighborhood is that an elderly member of our church who lives a few blocks away was killed by a falling tree.

Jackson has power downtown and in some suburbs. The offices of my law firm,. Phelps Dunbar LLP, in New Orleans and Gulfport did not experience any significant storm damage, but, of course, they are shut down because of what has happened around them. We are expecting a number of lawyers from those offices to relocate here. Others will be in Houston or Baton Rouge. But Katrina has hit our firm a powerful blow: As of Thursday evening we have still not heard from three of our New Orleans partners.

Both gasoline and ice are extremely scarce. One friend's son waited from 2:00 a.m. to 10:00 am in a gas line and when he got to the front, the pumps shut off. If we don't get some relief, I will be riding my bicycle to work next week. Some of the gasoline problem is the lack of electricity to run the pumps, so we can hope that as power comes on there will be more gasoline available. And, of course, as more suburbs and areas of the city get electricity back, there will be ice -- although we are still on a "boil water" notice.

Last night our family went to a suburb and watched television for the first time since the storm hit Monday. We saw the video of people stranded in downtown New Orleans.So we understand how very fortunate we are. And we are baffled by the seeming inability to get them out.

My wife and I are sending our contribution to the Katrina Fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson, www.cfgreaterjackson.org, and that is what we are recommending to others. Its board includes a number of our friends, and it has pledged to send 100% of the money it gets to selected charitable projects on the Gulf Coast. We are hopeful that it will get more of the money to the right places than other organizations will.

Luther Munford '71

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Want to see a football game? Want to know when our ‘Big Three’ cocktail party will be held at Tiger Inn after the Yale Game? How about when the B-ball season starts? No problem …!



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Saturday, August 20, 2005

AUSTELL, Ga., Aug. 11 PRNewswire -- Ed Stanczak '71 has been named President and CEO of Propex Fabrics Inc., effective August 16, 2005. Mr. Stanczak was also elected to fill a vacancy as director of Propex Fabrics Inc. effective as of the same date.

Propex Board Chairman George W. Henderson III said that Stanczak's broad- based executive career with extensive experience in manufacturing and international operations were key factors in the board's unanimous decision. "Ed has an outstanding 34 year track record of creating value in a number of larger corporations as well as smaller entrepreneurial ventures," he said. "He is the ideal person to address the challenges and opportunities we face in the future, and we have a great deal of confidence in him."

Prior to joining Propex Fabrics, Mr. Stanczak was the Group Vice President and General Manager of the Environmental Technologies division of Engelhard Corporation, the world's largest provider of catalytic emissions coatings to the stationary and motor vehicles market, with group revenues of over $800 million.

A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Mr. Stanczak earned a BS degree in engineering from Princeton University and has an MBA from Wright State University. Prior to Engelhard, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer at Vaungarde Incorporated, and also has held senior level executive positions at Armada Tube Group and HBI Automotive Glass L.P. Earlier in his career, Mr. Stanczak served as the Director of Fabrication Technology and as a Plant Manager with Libbey Owens Ford Company, and as a Plant Manager with Phelps Dodge Magnet Wire Corporation.

Propex is the world's largest producer of primary and secondary carpet backing, and a leading manufacturer and marketer of polypropylene synthetic fabrics used in a variety of other industrial applications.

This news release includes forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements as a result of any number of factors and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements are enumerated in the Company's registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Undue reliance should not be placed upon any forward-looking statements, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update those statements.

Web site: www.propexfabrics.com and Ed's detailed Press Release can be found by CLICKING HERE.

Friday, August 19, 2005

By The Associated Press

For the third straight year, Harvard and Princeton share the top spot in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of America's best colleges.

In fact, the full rankings look much like last year, with not one school in the top 20 moving more than two spots in either direction. Rounding out the top five are Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke and Stanford, who tied. The top four liberal arts colleges also are unchanged, with Williams again No. 1.

The formula for the controversial rankings includes variables such as graduation and retention rates, faculty and financial resources, and the percentage of alumni donating money to their alma mater.

After years of criticism for tinkering with its formula, the magazine has more or less settled on an equation over the last decade, and hasn't changed it at all since dropping admissions yield — the number of accepted students who attend a school — as a criterion three years ago. Because college profiles change only gradually, the result is the rankings have barely budged, at least at the top.

Princeton, which has at least tied for No. 1 for six straight years, issued a statement saying "it is gratifying that Princeton continues to be recognized for the quality of the undergraduate experience we offer" but that rankings cannot reflect whether any college is the right match for a student.

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

Towson, MD -- In the coming weeks, Oz Bengur '71 (D) intends to form a committee to explore a run for the seat being vacated by Congressman Ben Cardin. Oz will be traveling throughout the 3rd Congressional District to listen to the concerns of its residents.

“I want to use this opportunity to hear from as many people as possible as I work with the Exploratory Committee to assess my candidacy.”

Oz is a proud father to three children, Noah, a Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, Dinah, a senior at Colby College and Nick, a sophomore at Towson High School.

Oz is the Treasurer of the Maryland Democratic Party and a businessman in Baltimore. He has advised local governments and agencies in financing individual home ownership and multi-family housing, advised small and mid-size businesses to help them grow and formed new companies that have created hundreds of jobs.

Oz has been continuously active on the civic front, serving as a Trustee of the Baltimore County Public Library and on the boards of The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, The Baltimore Parks and People Foundation, and as President of The Children's Chorus of Maryland and School of Music. Oz previously ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2nd Congressional District in 2002.

For more information on Oz's possible run for Congress CLICK HERE!

Monday, July 11, 2005

The Class of 1971 increases off-year giving levels to over $167K w/ a participation rate of ~ 52%!

'Kudos' to our Class Agent, Bill Stewart ’71 and his AG Team! This year’s effort has prepared ‘71 for the best major Reunions giving year in the history of the Class!



To read some more re: this record breaking campaign, CLICK HERE!

Friday, July 08, 2005

The trustees of the City University of New York yesterday named William P. Kelly '71, the provost of its graduate center, as the center's new president, effective Friday.

Benno C. Schmidt Jr., CUNY's chairman, who led the search for the center's new president, said that there had been a pool of outstanding candidates, but that Dr. Kelly's academic accomplishments and his deep knowledge of the graduate center had made him the ideal choice.

Dr. Kelly, 55, had wide support at the graduate center. At CUNY's board meeting yesterday, where his appointment was approved, Susan O'Malley, chairwoman of CUNY's faculty senate, called him "dazzling."

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Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Current Totals:

Monday, June 27, 2005

Our beloved Class Agent, Bill Stewart ’71, tells us that the 2004-2005 Annual Giving (AG) Campaign is drawing to a close. Before time runs out, have you given in this year’s Campaign?

CLICK HERE to ensure that you have!

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Reunions 2005 was an off-year record breaking event with over 50 classmates attending!

Beginning with a very special gathering Thursday evening with dancing into the wee hours of the morning to the music of the Party Dolls, things only got better. The traditional class "free lunch" on the West College was filled with good food, great companionship and the the melodious voices of the Roaring 20's. The P-rade was of course the highlight of the day as the rain held off until the Class of '71 had passed the reviewing stand.

Group photo of the Class of 1971 Luncheon on the patio on West College on Saturday, May 28th, 2005. CLICK ON this photo to see an expanded view.

Later that evening, Prospect House was the venue of the Class dinner where again good food, good drink, great fellowship and the voices of the Tigerlillies prepared us for the upcoming fireworks. The fireworks were a perfect ending to a great weekend and a fantastic way to kickoff preparations for our upcoming 35th Reunion (June 1-4, 2006).

The following is a list of Classmates who were in attendance: Jay Bagdis, Henry Barkhorn, Mike Barnes, Oz Bengur, Doug Blair, Sam Boehm, Robert Boyle, John Brower, David Chamberlain, Peter Charapko, Richard DiFedele, Steve Dreyfuss, Mike Epstein, Rich Ferrugio, Tom Hart, Jack Hess, Ellen Higgens, Jack Hittson, Hank Holoszyc, Bill Kuntz, Bill Lewis, Lawrence Lindsey, Art Lowenstein, Jeff Marshall, Bill McCarter, Sandy McAdoo, Jack McNab, Mark Mazo, Luther Munford, Ray Ollwerther, Thomas Peff, Jonathon Perel, Terry Pflaumer, Mike Phelps, Doug Pike, Jamie Pitney, Mike Potter, Stu Rickerson, Ron Riner, Joanne Rogers, Ron Senchesak, Ned Scudder, Bob Sinsheimer, Randy Snow, Ed Stanczak, Tina Sung, Steve Townend, Mike Twomley, Gary Walsh, Richard Williams, John Winant, and Lake Wise.