December 19, 2001
by Peter O. Safir
Our pre-35th activities got off to a roaring start with a cocktail party following the Yale game. Among family and friends attending the party graciously hosted by Carrie and Frank Strasburger were Allen Adler, Tom Amato, Galen Aoki, George Bassett, Jerry Brashear, Bob Chilstrom, Roy Dix, Gus Escher, Rich Geisel, Bob Grant, Pete Holzer, Bill King, Jack Laporte, Bob Mayer, Bruce McDonald, Steve Oxman, Bill Paternotte, Peter Safir, Ted Todd, Tim Tulenko, Tom Tulenko, Joe Wood, and Mike Wyatt. Spotted at the game were Kent Hughes, John Kerr, and Dick Prentke. The highlight of the cocktail party was a rousing rendition of the class song, with Gus Escher at the piano. With apologies to the recording industry, a downloadable version of this historic rendition can be found at our class website, www.princeton67.com. [Webmaster’s note: see the Reverb section.]
Mike Wyatt has purchased and is restoring a 1947 Lincoln Continental that he hopes to drive in the P-rade sometime for the Class of ’46.
John Neely and wife Christine Sullivan, having educated and emancipated their children, have forsaken the suburbs and moved back to Salem, Mass., into a Federal-period house in a dense urban neighborhood. Son John is pursuing a graduate degree in documentary film at Stanford; daughter Abby has taken her Princeton degree (’01) and moved to Colorado Springs; and son Billy is starting at UMass-Amherst. John says that “business is tough for those of us who provide business services to technology companies, but we are surviving.” He saw Ray Palmer at Reunions for the first time since 1965. You may remember that Ray started with our class and graduated with ’71. John and Ray are continuing to discuss their experience related to their service in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam.
© 2001 Peter O. Safir and The Princeton Alumni Weekly. Used by permission.
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