FALL 2021 51 CLASS NOTES REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1971 Class Secretary: Howard Weinberg, 16 Erick Ct., Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724- 1901; [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant I am so pleased to be your class secretary, especially since the pandemic has caused many of us to be virtual shut-ins. It gives me great pleasure to keep in touch or reestablish contact with many of my Trinity classmates. Some of those I have spoken with or commu - nicated with via social media include Cliff Cutler , Jon Miller , DiBens (no other name needed), Dave Sample , Jim Graves , Mark Mittenthal , Marshall Garrison , Bill Reynolds , Joe Pratt II , Ken Schweikert , Phil Khoury , Ralph Morini , and so many on the 50th Reunion Committee. It warms my heart to hear and see how rich everybody’s life seems to be. Hoping to see as many as possible at our Reunion in June 2022. David Pumphrey credits Thomas Carlyle with getting him through the seemingly endless months of shutdown: “Carlyle’s The French Revolution: A History whetted my appetite for more of his wizardry, and so immediately took up the whopping eight-vol - ume bio of Frederick the Great. The months flew by!” He said he’d love to hear from school chums if they visit Nantucket. His contact info is: 4 Westminster St., Nantucket, MA 02554; 646-647-4860. Steve Jianakoplos says, “Greetings from the land of the Saint Louis University Billikens (my law class of ’74). Last year, after 45 years of private law practice (including being national legal adviser to the Porsche Club of America), I finally hung it up. I’m spending time with our four grandchildren, Natalie, Clay, Constantine, and Aristotle. Most days, I also discharge the ‘Lisa list’ of chores given to me by my lovely bride of 40 years. I’m in regular contact with Rick Mazzuto and Lou Slocum . Rick lives in Modesto, California, but we manage to see each other two or three times a year. Slocum has a lady friend in the village of Hana on Maui, Hawaii. He’s been commuting between there and Vista, California. Other than the general aches and pains of getting old, things are good, and I send best wishes to all my classmates.” Philip S. Khoury received an honorary degree from Trinity at the May 21, 2021, Commencement on campus. He reports, “It was a gorgeous sunny day, unlike our class’s Commencement exercises 50 years ago when it rained.” Michael E. Trigg , M.D., writes, “I am one of those who has the pleasure of living in Florida and thus can enjoy warm or warmer weather year-round, but I still require some educational stimulation. Currently on a contract with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to direct the development of a phase 4 study for its new CAR-T immunotherapy program for the treatment of refractory/resistant multiple myeloma. My extensive clinical and research experience in cellular therapies makes this an enjoyable enterprise for me and provides a good outlet to keep up with all the latest immunotherapy advances. Just a message to my Trinity colleagues, who like me, are past their seventh decade. Keep in mind that our immune system, despite how well we may maintain our physical and mental condition, deteriorates over time, making us more susceptible to infection and malignancy and also blunts the durable immune response that we may have. Will the immune response in a 70-year-old be as vigorous and durable as the immune response in a 20-year-old? Will the presence of a sizable number of anti-vaxxers (for whatever reason) make it more likely viral variants will develop, pro - viding an opportunity for many of us to get infected with a viral variant not covered in the currently available vaccines? Very clearly this past 12 months of social distancing, wearing of masks, excessive hand washing, and quarantine efforts have significantly reduced the incidence and transmission of normal influenza that plagues us each winter season. Thus, we should all keep in mind the public health measures that were recom- mended for the COVID pandemic that as a side effect helped most of us to escape the ordinary influenza infections that circulate each year.” Mel Kendrick writes, “I had a show at the Addison Gallery of American Art that ran from April through October 3 on the campus of Phillips Academy, Andover, where I went before Trinity. It is a serious museum of American art founded at the same time as the Whitney in New York. I am lucky to have been working this through the pandemic, and it is amazing to see my own work over the last 50 years or so. There is also a Rizzoli coffee table book with the same title, Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things . My family is doing well. I have lived in downtown Manhattan since graduation! My wife, Mary Salter ’73, and I have three great kids out in the world doing very different things, a dip - lomat in the State Department until Trump, a filmmaker, and a social worker.” Jon Miller sends a picture of an old Bantam with his grandson Bantam-to-be at the Georgia state track meet! Bill LaPlante II , five-time Emmy winner for ABC/CBS-TV, is “doing my final edit on two tomes, one verisimilitude of fifth-generation seafaring family turned oyster farmers on an island of 80 hearty souls in the frigid North Atlantic Ocean, the other my family memoir from working the Simsbury, Connecticut, tobacco fields beside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on to Trinity, The Washington Post , and Connecticut radio/TV/magazine/ Hartford Times police reporting. Next to ABC, CBS (breaking story of murder of John Lennon in December 1980), and back to ABC-TV to help hire 600 people worldwide and premiere the world’s first 24-hour cable news channel (not CNN) based in Stamford, Connecticut. Next project: sailing from the Arctic to Antarctic for two to three months aboard a research vessel, documenting for several publications with video/stills and daily blog. Also eagerly awaiting a brew with many of you over the rocks, at the former site of Phil’s College View Tavern. I liked the place so much I moved two blocks down Zion Street during my junior and senior years at Trin.” Tom Sasali notes, “In case you were not aware, Howie Greenblatt has published yet another basketball book, The Johnny Egan Story , about the life of his childhood idol and fellow Weaver High School graduate who was an NBA player and coach. Also met with Peter Moore , Lou Slocum , and Bill Reynolds .” David Sample reports: “I continue to battle the isolation of the pandemic by taking more road trips! In January, I traveled to Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and North Texas. The highlight of the trip was a ‘winter’ hike down the Grand Canyon, this time with crampons and a headlamp! It now appears that we are breaking out of the restrictions of COVID, which means that we can all look forward to seeing everyone at our June 2022 Reunion.” REUNION • JUNE 9–12, 2022 1972 Class Secretary: John R. “Jack” Nelson, 55 Old Shore Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371-1936; john.nelson.1972@ trincoll.edu • Class Agents: Archibald Smith, Will Whetzel • /groups/Trinity1972 Slim pickings from the Class of ’72 for the fall Reporter. Maybe we’re just happy to have sur - vived COVID—some of us didn’t—and after our long somnolence we’re still whisking the cobwebs out of our brains and blinking in the bright sunshine of ... freedom, commu - nity, shopping, dining, and hugs! What joy! Hello, parties! Goodbye, UPS! Ahem. Thankfully, two happenin’ ’72ers have important doings to report: Lew Payne has moved out of the northern Maine hin- terlands of Holden to coastal Brookville “to be closer to Hepps” (in Sargentville), but I think it’s just coincidence and he’s joshing me. And John Moses reports he “finally took the granddaddy plunge and moved to Charleston, South Carolina, three blocks from my three grandgirls. Wife Meredith is ecstatic. Me, I’m playing more Southern rock and enjoying this foodie town—the biscuits and barbecue are out of this world. Busy booking the Outerspace Band for a month this summer in Maine, our 52nd year and all