46 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES (later secretary of the treasury and secretary of state) told Bill, ‘You are not going into hospital administration, you have done so well that you must stay here and get a Ph.D.,’ which Bill did. That started him on the road to his spectacular career in academic administration, but he always continued his involvement in public health, served on a lot of important commissions, and ultimately took on the presidency of Johns Hopkins, one of the two or three universities in America most prominent in the health field. “Bill and I never lived near each other after Trinity, but we always remained best friends. We visited him and Nancy at their place in the San Juan Islands, spent a week - end with them when he was at Penn State, including riding in a motorcade with fire engines and police leading the way to attend a Penn State football game. He and I would catch up sometimes when he would be in N.Y.C. for a Bank of New York board meeting. “One of the best memories Ann and I have of Bill is that he was an usher in our wedding in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Bill and Nancy stayed over that weekend with Nancy’s par - ents in nearby Lake Forest, and Bill offered to drive Ann and me to our motel at O’Hare airport, from where we would depart to our honeymoon in Bermuda the next morning. I will always revere the memories I have of Bill’s successes, but even more the great friendship we had.” Bill left wonderful memories; our class was fortunate to count him as a member. My request for memories of your days here brought two comments. Charlie Classen recalls, “My roommate John Syer and fellow teammate on Trinity track were best friends with Skip McNulty . Skip lived over the archway on the far-left corner of the quad, can’t remember the name of the building (but maybe that’s a good thing these days). When he was elected to Medusa, we thought he needed something to bring him back to earth. We rigged an M-1 firecracker with a cig - arette and placed it under his archway, timed to go off in the middle of the night. It worked perfectly, causing vibrations, reverberations, and a lot of shouting.” Thanks for reminding us of the hijinks of college life, Charlie! Alan Coyne , on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, noted, “You brought back the memory of all of us as freshmen singing ‘This Old Man’ and marching downtown in Hartford to a radio station that had been playing the song constantly for 24 hours. Now we are the ‘old men’ reminiscing about our youth!” Other news: Peter Bundy reports that he was thrilled when he learned recently that his grandson, Graham Bundy Jr., has been named to the All-America First Team in Division I lacrosse. Graham is a sophomore at Georgetown. Peter started writing some thoughts, not only about what COVID-19 was doing to our lives but also anything and everything that has been affecting our lives ever since. His effort is encapsulated in the publication of the Hermit Herald , of which the 115th issue has just been published. He has 65 listed recipients, but the actual number of readers is in the hundreds. Early on, he learned that Arizona State University and 40 other colleges and universities are assembling notes and film clips—any type of media—with thoughts about the year of the plague (COVID-19). They asked that Pete become a contributor. His issues can be accessed at ASU. Google COVID-19 A Journal of the Plague Year. Peter lives in Gulf Stream, Florida, with summer between Greenwich, Connecticut, and the northern Catskill Mountains. Serious comments arrived, too: Art Domingue shares that after 50-plus years of local church ministry, he has retired to San Jose, California, just in time to excuse himself from all society but for his wife of 56 years, Joanne, a Mount Holyoke graduate. Art reminds us, “Life is good.” And may life be good for you, too, as big-number birthdays come our way! Yours, Paul and Fred 1963 Class Secretary: Thomas E. Calabrese, 59 Tolland Green, Tolland, CT 06084-3040; thomas. [email protected] • Class Agent: William C. Howland Dear Fellow Trin ’63ers, As most of us turn 80 during these months of 2021, and as we emerge from the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is refreshing to reconnect and remember classmates from our days ’neath the elms. We do this via these periodic updates in The Trinity Reporter , our visits back on campus for Homecomings and Reunions, and, more recently, our monthly Zoom sessions, which are quite fun and informative. We encourage you to participate as much as you can in these activities—it is really good for the soul. So, here are some updates from your fel - low Trin alums: From Andy Lewis : “Sally and I have moved from Breckenridge down the mountain to a 55-and-older community (hard to believe we qualified 25 years ago!) about 15 miles north of Denver. It was a tough deci- sion to sell our skis and leave our beautiful mountain community. That said, not having snow on the ground for six or seven months and having more oxygen to breathe by being 5,000 feet lower made the decision rather easy for us. We are closer to our kids and a few of the grandchildren, and that has been a joy for us.” From Vic Keen : “Contacted by a ‘field reporter,’ my friend Ted Raff , to add some- thing to our Class Notes, I am responding with the items below. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hosting a dinner at the his - toric Merion Inn, Cape May, New Jersey, with Scott and Peggy Reynolds and their daughter Jane and son-in-law Brian on the occasion of Jane and Brian’s wedding anniversary. (Which one? It’ll make you realize how old you really are.) Champagne and the works. Great fun! “An innocuous comment in a ’63 Trin email post some months ago led to a robust email/telephone encounter with classmate Julian Peabody . I don’t think either of us knows when we last saw each other, very likely in 1963. Leaving out boring details, suffice it to say that our ‘new’ long-distance friendship has involved an orange Bakelite radio from my collection now residing in Julian’s California home; Julian stopping by my hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, as part of his occasional motor trip in the Southwest, spending the night and visiting the local art center, which had presented a portion of my art collection some months earlier; and email exchanges, including references to Cardigan corgis, Mar-a-Lago, Lauren Boebert, and Bill ’62 and Sam ’59 Polk. We are planning to meet in person before it’s too late. “As many classmates know, I have for some years been collecting a category of art known as ‘outsider art,’ a.k.a. untrained, self-taught artists, etc. A portion of the collection, which has been exhibited in museums in Colorado and Illinois, is returning to Philadelphia to be rehung. We are planning to host an in-person reopening gallery reception prior to year-end. The 800 or so pieces in the collection are shown on the gallery website (bethanymis - siongallery.org). The traveling portion of the collection has been collected in a 270-page book Outsider & Vernacular Art: The Victor F. Keen Collection .” This volume can be pur - chased online. Vic has agreed to send a copy (no charge) to any classmate who requests one and provides him with a mailing address. SUPPORT TRINITY STUDENTS. MAKE YOUR TAX YEAR-END GIFT BY DECEMBER 31. www.trincoll.edu/ GiveOnline