Attention, class!
Updated August 14, 2001:
Nancy Williams Brown reports that we currently have more than seventy
graduates (and about 115 with dates included) signed up for the party, with
more every week. That's about a third of the total number of graduates
forty years ago and pretty darn good, considering. It is somewhat amazing
that at least some of us are still speaking to each other ... up to this
point, at least. But it is only a couple of months now till the big party
and there is still a lot to get done.The first of these is your biography:
Gene Heyman (that's Dr. Heyman to you!) is compiling a clinical study on the
effects of growing up in an asylum like Mill Valley and what happens to
people who spent four years (more or less) at Tam High. Now, our class has
always been a little odd about reunions, but, according to reliable sources,
most other classes put these books together; we ought to do one as well.
Make it short and sweet or long and detailed -- make it truthful or make
things up. Check out the web site to see what others have done, then do
something different. Do it quick, though, and send it to ...If you don't, I will write it for you ... and you wouldn't want that.
Working Session:
There are still a lot of little details to resolve before October and I
would like to propose a gathering of anybody foolish enough to want to help
out -- how about September 15th? No flirting, no drinking, strictly
business! We ought to go take a look at the OAC layout, parking, and
generally conspire about all the little details we have blown off so far.
Anybody interested? Drop Conrad or me a note and we will keep you posted on
the where and when.Missing Persons:
Thanks to the lessons of those pesky telemarketers, we have been successful
in harassing quite a few people to the point that they have surrendered and
sent in a check. Two thirds of the class is still missing in action,
however, so keep calling those old buddies. We are going to try to do one
more mailing, but that's it. Be there or be square.Uniform for the Very Senior Prom:
For those of you who missed the announcement a few months ago, the VSP is
"clothing optional." My proposal for formal attire (men: white tie/women:
scandalously revealing dresses with lots of cleavage) has been shouted down,
despite all the obvious advantages. So the decision has been made that you
can wear any damn thing you feel like, from grubby sweats and old tennies to
a rented penguin costume. Apparently this is a big relief to some of you,
but I was still hoping for another peek at you ladies in your prom dresses.
I will show up in whatever my wife tells me to wear, and my guess is that it
isn't going to be the levis and cowboy boots, and it probably won't be white
tie, either.Your faithful scribe,
Hans Halberstadt