CLASSMATE NEWS
December 2025
Hope 2026 finds you all healthy and happy and busy with lots of activities. About the latter, let us know, please, how you’ve been and what you are up to. A photo or two would be welcome, as well. Barry Proner writes from Isleworth, Great Britain: “I came to London...
October 2025
Thank you to the classmates who are out and about and letting us know of their activities. Keep it coming, please. Alan Flaherty is the devoting a lot of his time volunteering with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), a 1500-member program at the University...
August 2025
Don Juran, a composer and music engraver living in Rockville, Md, delightedly reported that he has finally got his website up and running! See it for yourself: https://www.donjuran.com. A retired computer programmer, he also was a choral singer and occasional bass...
June 2025
In addition to writing his second book, More Snippets of My Life: Nature’s wonders and interesting folks along the way (Lightning-Press Book Printing),which is to be published this fall, Dave Bary (Galveston, TX) is also teaching two Life Story classes @ Osher...
April 2025
From Mike (Mickey) Miller comes news that he gave a talk to the Schmooze and Schmear group of ROMEO's (Retired Old Men Eating Out) on Financial Planning, including Investment, Estate, and Charitable Planning. “I skipped Retirement Planning, hoping that has already...
March 2025
“We continue to be in good health for the most part, for which we are grateful,” writes Don Juran from his home in Rockville, MD. “I completed ‘Two Loops of Ribbon,’ a poem I set to music, and am looking for another text to also set to music. My wife Carol...
October 2024
Thank you to John Abel for solving a mystery. Our Class of '62 Baseball Scoreboard is now to be found at Booth Field, the current home of Cornell baseball located on Ellis Hollow Road near Game Farm Road. The scoreboard was moved from its previous on-campus home at...
August 2024
I have a complaint. Fewer and fewer of you are writing to report on what’s happening in your lives. Yes, there are fewer and fewer of us, but surely the very fact that we are elderly and still upright is a cause for celebration. So, let’s hear from you. Soon. Marianne...
June 2024
Here’s the news that’s come over the transom since our last column. If you’ve missed this one, you can atone by sending news for the next one. From Ewing, N.J., Patricia Carlin White writes that now that she has retired from teaching high school home economics –...
April 2024
This column is being written in April which, as we all know, is tax month. In the absence of personal entries from classmates, I thought it fitting to write about another set of figures: Classmate and Class-based Giving. In this the 62nd year of the Class of 1962,...