FALL 2021 47 CLASS NOTES From Lloyd Reynolds : “Welcome sum- mer to all. Lee and I are back in Falmouth, Maine, for the summer. The winter at Cape Canaveral was once again a nice warm escape from the harsh winters in Maine. The rocket launches from the nearby space center were numerous and fun to watch. We enjoy the change of scenery on the beach, and yet spending summers with family and nearby South Port Marine is very satisfying. Boating has become a most popular family activity; we are enjoying the results of new boat sales, and our 175 slips are full for the summer. We are truly blessed with loyal customers and a great staff after 26 years of ownership. Best wishes to all ’63ers.” From Eli Karson : “I resumed volunteer duty at the Pima Air & Space Museum in February. In 2020, we managed a trip to Florida and to connect with a number of friends and relatives before the lockdown! Fortunately for us, years ago we chose relative isolation, building on family land outside Tucson in 2005 where the average density is one residence per seven acres. We were minimally impacted. Lots of space, lots of sun outside (I did not remain indoors), and few mask police around, but by the end of the summer, we decided, enough! If we die, we die. We flew to Chattanooga in October where my son had relocated after selling his house in Connecticut. (Good luck to those who remain!) Hadn’t seen him in two years. They shut down his personal training business in March of 2020. At any rate, he has settled, and they are buying a house across the river in Georgia in June. I was there in early May to check things out, and Nancy and I plan to fly there again in October. Good news: We didn’t catch any - thing, and we’re vaxxed and in reasonably good health. Wishing you the same!” 1964 Co-Class Secretary: Thomas J. Monahan, 46 Dogwood Ln., New Canaan, CT 06840-3921; thomas. [email protected] • Co-Class Secretary: James S. Twerdahl, 214 S. McCadden Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90004-1054; [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant The year of COVID found many of our class - mates writing, composing, and ruminating. Ward Ewing spent last summer writing his latest book, Twelve Steps to Religionless Spirituality: The Power of Spirituality with or without God. Ward is in a unique position to discuss 12-step recovery programs and religion. He retired as dean and president of General Theological Seminary, New York, in 2010 after 12 years of service there and 31 years as a pastor in congregations. He has been involved with Alcoholics Anonymous as a nonalcoholic for more than 45 years. In 2004, he was elected to serve as a trustee of the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous for the U.S. and Canada and in 2009 elected to serve as chair of the board. The spirituality of the steps is not well known outside of the recovery community. Ward seeks to show how this transformative pro - gram can be relevant today, when so many see themselves as spiritual but not religious. Peter Kinzler reports that he and his wife fared reasonably well during the pandemic, and he used the time to write a book, Highway Robbery: The Two-Decade Battle to Reform America’s Automobile Insurance System , which will be published by the University Press of Kansas in mid-June. It’s his firsthand account of these two political efforts, one from the left and one from the right, replete with stories about the people and the process. As we go to press, it’s num- ber 3,660,417 on Amazon. Who knows how high it might get once it’s published! And David Curry wrote a new poem, “Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore at the Circus,” which will appear in Atlanta Review , the literary journal based at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Charley Todd reports, “On March 3, 2020, I flew to Italy to visit the English friends with whom I used to own a small farm outside Volterra in central Tuscany. There was something going on up north, and a week later we found out what when the country was shut down. I just managed to make it out on a flight to JFK and spent my pandemic in Putney, Vermont, on video each day with my Cambodian family, whom I’d not been away from before for more than five months since my son and I adopted each other in 2003.” Charley has been spending a great deal of time working with his Cambodian daughter- in-law, who is a highly accomplished chef, Chef Nak, on building her brand and helping to publish what have become very successful cookbooks. He offers, “If any member of the Class of ’64 wants a Khmer royal feast cooked in New York or New England this December, let me know and we’ll negotiate. Or join us on our next culinary tour of Cambodia in 2022 or ’23! If you’re interested, you can find me at [email protected].” Phineas Anderson writes, “We took the necessary precautions, and no one in our extended family got COVID-19. From Arizona, we drove to Wisconsin last summer and spent a month there with family friends. We had planned to go to Croatia and Slovenia in April 2020, but COVID stopped us; we have rescheduled for 2022. This May, we spent a week in Montana, and the airplane and air - port were packed, but everyone was required to wear a mask. Wishing all safe travels!” Your co-secretary Jim Twerdahl and wife Daryl just returned from visiting grandchildren in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Los Altos; they had not seen them in 15 months. In March, he thought his consulting business would collapse for the year, but it turned out to be the second-best year since he opened it. On May 22, 2021, Dick Brainerd ran in the Connecticut Masters Games Track and Field Meet and won two gold medals, in the 400- and 800-meter runs. Now that’s news! From Bert Feingold : “Thanks for your email requesting information about how my family and I are doing during this COVID pandemic. Last June, my 18-year-old granddaughter, Emma, had the viral infection, but after 10 days of isolation, she bounced back and returned to her full activities. She entered Arizona State University in August 2020 in the Honors Program and did exceptionally well. This summer, she is taking additional classes at ASU and also working part time. Her younger brother, Trevor, just completed his first year in high school and will take a summer math course. He is very active in sports, especially hockey, and keeps physically fit by bicycle riding with friends and exercising at a gym. The mother of these two grandchildren is my daughter, Debbie, a sixth-grade teacher at a Scottsdale, Arizona, middle school. In Calabasas, California, my son, David, has a busy orthopedic practice. His daughter, Cailan, is graduating from the University of Oregon in its honors college in June and will be attending medical school at New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York. Her current plan is to become an orthopedic surgeon and eventually join her dad in his practice. David’s stepson, Blake, is 19 and also attends ASU, majoring in busi- ness. He will be a second-year student when classes resume in August 2021. Betty and I will be married 55 years this June and were dating while I was attending Trinity College. We raised a wonderful family and traveled with them over the years to six continents. Travel stopped with the pandemic, but we are hopeful in the year ahead we can resume our exploration of the USA and the world with family and friends. Best wishes to you both and to my ’64 classmates.” 1965 Class Secretary: Thomas A. Garson, 4301 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Apt. 5002, Washington, D.C. 20016- 5569; [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant Nic Cantor responded to an inquiry from a reporter for the Reporter regarding any secrets that he could possibly reveal that may have arisen from the G7 meetings in London: “Alas, I had to sign the Official Secrets Act, and it would be unlawful, a criminal offense actually, for me to divulge anything the queen or the G7 leaders may tell me. Of