52 THE TRINITY REPORTER CLASS NOTES original members relatively intact. This, of course, is just a rehearsal for Trinity’s 50th!” Lew and John have dutifully updated their contact info in MyTrinNet, and this is fan- tastic news that Outerspace Band will once again perform for us at Reunion. Speaking of ... (drumroll) our 50th Reunion, our class president and longtime Trinity leader Peter Blum would like to share this message with you all: “Dear classmates, the way I see it, each classmate who returns will be a gift to another classmate. For some of us, it’ll have been 50 years since we last lit eyes on one another. Equally, for some of us, our 50th may offer the last opportunity to be together again, to renew distant friendships, to revive our mystic chords of memory, so to speak. For each of us, our returning to Trinity will be warmly welcomed by any number of others— that is such a vivid and compelling image and a great reason to come back. You needn’t know or remember (or recognize!) everybody, but it’ll be more than worthwhile to recon- nect with even just one or two old friends. I guarantee you’ll be met with a broad smile, and it will be meaningful for you on a deeper level as well. Yours, Peter” So, folks, stay tuned, keep your June 2022 options open, and please, please, please update your contact information— especially your email address—in the Alumni Directory. (https://mytrinnet.trincoll.edu). The Alumni Office is missing a lot of you, and your fellow classmates miss you even more. If by chance you’re hiding from Trinity because you’re afraid you’ll be hit up for (shudder) money, then trust me: Trinity’s Advancement Office (that’s fundraising now - adays) is gentle and won’t hound you at all. Stay healthy, stay grateful, and please stay in touch. Jack Nelson 1973 Co-Class Secretary: Diane Fierri Brown, 62 Westwood Rd., West Hartford, CT 06117; diane. [email protected] • Co-Class Secretary: Robert P. Haff, 8 Riverbend Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371-1428 • Class Agents: Jan Gimar, Ed Huntley, Patti Mantell-Broad Mike Mitchell writes, “I hope that this note finds you both well and that all members of your families are well and prospering. All good here after a very challenging year and a half. Sue is in remission after her yearlong battle with leukemia last year, all three kids thriving, and as I prepare to celebrate my 70th birthday on Sunday, I am still wheeling it around town, though maybe at a some- what diminished pace. Last weekend, five of my buddies from the Lockheed Martin days and I cycled from Hunt Valley, Maryland, to York, Pennsylvania, and back over the two days—88.4 miles on a rail to trail and great fun with very close friends.” Mike is continuing to pursue his photography with three online exhibits to date this year. Mike’s website for his work is www.mikemitchell - photography.com. Art Baldwin writes, “My wife, Mary, and I are vaccinated. We recently took a one-week trip to Durham, North Carolina, to visit one of our daughters. We are expecting our son to visit us (and get vaccinated) from Mexico in two weeks. We hadn’t seen either of them since January 2019. Our other daughter will be arriving at the end of the month. She has been teaching chemistry in Indonesia for the past two years. We’ve been taking care of her dog for that time. I’m planning to video the reunion of the dog with her and her husband. The dog has two years’ worth of face licking to catch up on. I’ve been doing remote tutor - ing of algebra I and II and geometry this past school year. It’s been a challenge, trying to reach kids I don’t know and have never seen. I tip my hat to teachers everywhere. I’ve also been volunteering at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. Happy to give a tour to anybody who’s in town. I was called out of retirement to assist on a project for the NIH, providing metrics for a study of socioeconomic determinants of health under the pandemic. We should be done soon. Work doesn’t really agree with me. I hope you’re healthy and happy!” Len Kupferberg writes: “ Karen and I have been fully vaxxed for about 10 weeks. We have been having family gatherings and interacting with other vaccinated friends. We are currently in our home on Maui and will be celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary tomorrow.” Per David Bargman : “Like W.H. Auden, [I am] ‘Now, unready to die but already at the stage when one starts to dislike the young.’ (And he was younger than we are when he wrote this.) Otherwise, all is well but yet unmasked.” Nick Read writes: “I live in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, condo with Anne, my wife of 45 years. We downsized last year amid COVID from a house that was purchased by our younger daughter, Joanna, and her husband, Samir, who live there with daughters Bodhi and Mira. Our older daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Daniel, are eye surgeons in Honolulu, where they live with daughter Parker and son Nicholas. I work for the City of Newton, Massachusetts, and divide my time between Cambridge and my painting studio in Rockport, Massachusetts. Thinking about retirement, but not quite ready yet.” “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”—Mark Twain 1974 Class Secretary: Ty E. Geltmaker, 8742 Rangely Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90048- 1715; [email protected] • Class Agent: Vacant Greetings, all! A mild suggestion: If you don’t want it in print, don’t send it. And send it exactly as you want to see it. Many noted the recent deaths of beloved Eddie Faneuil and Patrick O’Connell ’75, the latter a pioneering AIDS activist who had lots of friends in our cohort. See the “In Memory” section for their obituaries. Margie Huoppi notes she and hers are well but sad at the passing of both Eddie and Patrick. Geoffrey Harrison is up-front challenging himself and our imperfections (asking all be said for the record): “It seems our class is among the least communicative ones. (Very brief Class Notes section in The Trinity Reporter every issue.) Wonder why that is. In general, we seemed a relatively happy bunch, back then at least. Forty-seven years ago ... are we all that ancient? Well, 69 is the new 49, right? I had a tough time often in college and later due to undiagnosed clinical depression; now successfully treated, for the last 20 years, thank God. Thought I’d begin with this because I firmly believe one should be open about mental illness, which is just an illness after all. No shame in being ill, whatever the cause. This is very important to me. Got a Ph.D. at Stanford University in classics (also my undergraduate major) and taught college for many years. Liked to mention my depression in class from time to time, as appropriate, for the reason given above. Always very gratifying when a student would come up to me afterward and thank me for what I had said. This happened often. Not all education is directly tied to the subject matter! Although from Philadelphia, I live in Iowa, where the college I last taught at is located. Never married for some reason and thus no kids, at least none that I know of. Well, that’s enough, maybe too much, for now. Should you choose to print this in the Reporter , please do not excise the depression business. Maybe it will help my classmates to understand why I was so grumpy and rebar - bative much of the time! Love all you guys (or most of you). For better or worse, you helped make me what I am today.” Amy Yatzkan Trachtenberg reflects, “Living in Philly now for five years, after post - grad stops in Chicago, Boston, Princeton. Semiretired from 42 years of clinical social work practice, which has morphed into consulting and supervising while taking advantage of the urban adventure that is Philadelphia. Filled with memories of Trinity these days, triggered by the passing of Patrick O’Connell ’75. I regret losing touch