Greylocks Mini Reunion - 2022
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A splendid time was had by all. While we await further photographic additions to this gallery, please enjoy and appreciate the somber occasion of a serious baton being passed from the Class of '1972 to the Class of 1973. Classmates agreed that Steve’s poise and pose distinguished him from all the rest in a lively crowd of passers and passees. To be precise, the baton was passed from ‘70 to ‘71 and from ‘71 to ‘72 before dinner. We had to wait until dessert was consumed before the final ‘72 to ‘73 passing was consummated. There was a spontaneous chorus of “The Mountains” that captured our collective appreciation.
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A Report from Scott Hopkins
Steve Harty rounded up a rather motley crew, drawn from both coasts and even the Midwest. Surprise, surprise, the couple coming from the furthest West was not Tom and Robyn Geissler or even Bill Bodenstab from San Diego, but Frank and Amy Chapman from Lund, BC. Nancy and I left at 4 AM Thursday from Chicago to pick up Frank and Amy in Cleveland where they were there visiting two of their daughters. The four of us set off for Billsville about 11:30, expecting to be in by 7:30, in time for dinner and cocktails, only to be delayed for almost three hours on the NY State Thruway by an overturned tanker truck filled with liquid manure. By the time we got going again, arrival time looked more like 10:30, so Frank located a pizza place near Syracuse and we stopped for a quick dinner, unaware that we were about to run in to some of the best and most generous helpings of Calzone to be found anywhere. Stuffed we headed off again, waved to Peter and Mary Pierson as we passed thru Grafton, NY and pulled in to the 1896 House to find our room keys taped to the closed office door. We were housed across Rt 2/7 from the main unit, euphemistically called the Pond, which the rooms smelled a bit like when we opened the doors…….
Friday we checked in at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance (formerly the Adams Memorial Theatre), took a walking tour of Horn House (our base for reunion, Spring Street, and the new Williams Inn. Amy ad Nancy went off to the Williams Shop to shop….. and Frank and I, being the perpetual students that you all know us to be, went off to talk with the Registrar and then to the work with the Archivist to figure out where we could get various pieces of our history from. We met them back at the ’62 Center and caught the balance of the first faculty discussion on “Creative Thinking and the Origin of Big Ideas” and then went back to the hotel for a pre-cookout nap, having been up since 3:30. At the cookout behind the football field, we met up with the balance of the ’73 crew, Peter /Mary Pierson, Rob Cella, Bob/Karen Gross, Tom/Robyn Geissler, Bill Bodenstab, Steve Harty (our Dear Leader), Steve Hauge, Bob/Mary Koegel, Dick Tavelli, Jay Nawrocki, Ned/Judy Carmody and then a portion of the crew did a perfectly normal thing and went to the Log, taking over the front room and outlasting the last of the short-ball students, literally helping too bus tables and closing the place down.
Saturday, Field Horne joined us in time for the meeting with Maude and three other administration folks and who would ever have thought it 50 years ago, but they were all very intelligent and well spoken women, any of whom could have come from our special pool of classmates. Very interesting presentations, discussions and questions which I will not try to summarize here, because I can’t…..Following, a class Zoom with presentation from the staff of Planned Giving, Tom Geissler and Bob Koegel on Reunion weekend schedule and plans in the making, Field Horne on the 50th Reunion book and status of personal essays and then off to pre-football soccer cookout. Tufts won the football game, X-Country men won their meet and the ladies X-country finished 2nd, women’s soccer beat Amherst and men’s soccer tie Amherst. More shopping followed and then off to the Pass the Baton dinner, Pete Farwell joining our ‘73 ranks, where the 100+ yr. old tradition was caught up on by passing from ’70 to ’71, ’71 to ’72 and finally ’72 to ’73 in the person of Steve Harty, for us to carry on the great tradition of alumni support for.
Sunday we convened at the Williams Inn for breakfast. Brother Peter ‘74 and Wendy ’72 joined us and I found out that Peter’s son Matt had gotten married over a year ago – as a kid, Peter was always complaining about “no one tells me anything”, better LATE than never……
Back in the car, dropped Frank and Amy in Cleveland and pulled in the driveway in Chicago at 11:00 PM- at least I know that I can still roadtrip…………..