April 19, 2000
by Dick Prentke
The NYC Class dinner is set for Apr. 27, at the Princeton Club. Rick Wright ’64, of the Bill Bradley ’65 campaign, will speak on presidential campaign finance.
Small world department: Jim Hillegass spent Christmas week sailing with his daughter in Martinique. Waiting for their return flight, he ran into Bruce Wallace, wife Raven, and their kids (photo). Was this the last mini-reunion of the millennium?
Work assignments throughout Russia in 1999 caused Paul Rodzianko to observe that the texture and challenges of doing constructive business in Russia have never been more intricate. With all the rhetoric flying about, real solutions to real problems will be fewer to come by. He concludes: “Let us wish both our great countries the best for the new millennium.”
Although John Kerr has remained in San Diego for 31 years, he is frequently on the road with Delta Airlines, and flies to Asia or Europe monthly. He spent Christmas 1998 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in his military job as deputy commander of the joint task force running the lengthy bombing campaign against Saddam (four days). John found the three month effort working with US, British, and French aviators interesting and the diplomatic result frustrating.
35 years ago: In reply to our Feb. 23 column, Cliff Ransom notes that although our class may not have had Nude Olympics, he recollects a fair amount of streaking. He has read, with sadness, that “our politically correct age has killed the embryonic tradition of the Nude Olympics, which seemed a grand idea.” He does remember the great blue light from the implosions of television tubes hefted from tall towers.
© 2000 Dick Prentke and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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