Thereafter, they gradually declined-within the past year to zero. To assure fair representation, I created a list of classmates with the dates in which their reported news appeared in the column.Īs time went along, the number of news reports gradually fitted the word allotment. I had to use fuzzy criteria to select those reports that I thought to be of greatest interest to readers. However, for an old guy’s entertainment, it’s been a bit of fun to look back to the time when there was more news from classmates than could be fitted to the column’s word limit. Well that, good classmates, is the current news from your correspondent’s cluttered desk out here in Iowa. At age 95, and in shaky health, your faithful class correspondent of 23 years is pushing his longevity luck and we might soon be in need of a replacement correspondent or possibly none. What news there is for classes still listed that are without correspondents is entered by the magazine staff. Columns of classes before ours have gradually disappeared. Have you noticed? Our class column has gradually shifted to the front of the listings in the Class Notes section.
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