Personal Note for the Exeter Bulletin



Personal Note for the Exeter Bulletin

My wife, Trudy, and I hosted Chris Wronsky (Director of Planned Giving) at our home in Laguna Beach last spring. We were joined for drinks

and a blue-water Pacific sunset by classmate Ron Beard (Laguna Hills) and spouse. The conversation centered on our pending trip to Israel; Chris shared experiences from his own trip some years ago, together with a citation to a fabulous on-line map of Israel.

Our “pilgrimage” to Israel in June, 2010, proved to be the best overseas trip ever for both of us. All the ingredients were there: the sacred sites of

the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths; history enough to satisfy the

most avid seeker; remarkable architecture and geology; and insights into

the thriving, modern state of Israel, with all of its political, cultural, and religious tensions.

This May and June will be, I suspect, a time when most of our class of ‘57

mark their 50th college reunion. Trudy and I hope to see a number of you

at the Harvard Class of 1961 reunion in Cambridge from May 23-26. We

entered into the reunion spirit on April 10, 2010, by hosting the first “pre-reunion” party nationwide at our home. Since the party anticipated the Cambridge reunion by 13 months, one invitee confessed that he thought I had badly mistaken the year in my invitation.

I will be helping out our faithful Class Correspondents during 2011. My focus will be on securing personal notes from classmates on the west coast.

So those of you living in California, Oregon, and Washington can expect

to hear from me with a request for a paragraph or two for inclusion in the

Bulletin. The level of interest of classmates remains high in your family,

your interests, and your observations.

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