2008 - January - DA 83 E News

DA Class of 1983 E-Newsletter
25th Reunion Year Edition
February 2008

Dear 83er,

In this edition:
Reunion Registration-Savings before March 1!
Iowa and Kosovo
Boston Region Event
Recent Class Notes

Next Month: Online Reunion Survey Results

Register now for Reunions, June 13-15, 2008! Early bird pricing ends March 1 and full refunds are available before May 7, if plans change. See survey results below if you need any convincing – lots of people likely to attend and they name others that should show!

CLICK LINK BELOW TO GO TO REGISTRATION PAGE: (you will need your DA Connections userid and password – to get help setting one up email JK at jknight@deerfield.edu)
https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/membersonly/DRF/events/event_order.cgi?

Classmate Likely to Attend Reunions
NAME Guests
Whitney Armstrong
Matt Calman
Wills Elliman Wife, daughter (8), son (5)
Adam Feiges son (10), daughter (6)
Josh Greenberg Kids aged 12 and 10
Bill Gleason
Rob Gulick
Leigh Guyer Wife, son (8), daughter (6)
RJ Harrington
Don Hindman Wife, three oldest kids
John Homer Kids aged 7 and 2
John Knight
Alex Mack Sharon, kids 13, 8 and 2
Rev. Paul Mariani, SJ
David Morley
Johannes Mortier
Nate Nourse
Peter Pauley
Scott Pryce Wife, Child 1.5
Brian Steward
Jeff Spadafora
Van Sullivan
Peter Townsend Sons aged 12 and 11
P.B. Weymouth Kids aged 9, 6 and 3
Will Wolf Wife, sons 10 and 8

From Our Man in Kosovo: Rob Gulick responds to the Iowa Caucus musings of Adam Feiges:

“Since Adam brought it up... If Obama becomes our next President, I'm in with several UN coeds who have until now rebuffed my advances with the simple question, "Are you American?"

I live in Pristina, Kosovo, by the way, where 90% of the native population has names like Hussein. Ironically, they'd all vote for Hillary if they had the chance. Pristina's main drag here is named "Bill Clinton Boulevard," after all, and many regard Albright as their queen. But, alas, don't let anyone tell you that Bill and Hillary (or Albright and Holbrooke) "fixed" the Balkans. Just Google 'Kosovo' news. To be fair, it's an incredibly complicated situation. Thousands of shades of gray, like the rest of the world. Which is precisely why I'd say it's high time for someone like Obama.”

And our man who’s “been there”, Drew Schiff, comments on Adam’s view of the Iowa Caucus system: “Pls tell adam that this is a spectacular summary of how this process, which is soooo different from all other processes, works.”

Boston Region Event:

CLASSY ’83 –
Thursday, January 17th at 6 pm - Oak Bar
At the Fairmont Copley

Great to spend some quality time with John Homer and Josh Greenberg the other day. Almost as good as reunions! John works at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Josh works at Children’s Hospital – so there was plenty to talk about!

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE to block the dates on your calendar - June 13-15, 2008 – so you have the option of attending. More planning information will be forthcoming.

ClASS NOTES:
Ed. Note. Class Notes can be posted and viewed on www.DeerfieldAlumni.org. If you need any helping logging on to the site, like your unique ID – please email jknight@deerfield.edu

Peter Pauley (1983)Peter Pauley (1983) recently accepted a position at Capital Group Companies located in New York, NY as senior vice president. "Back to commuting to NYC. Feel free to drop by for a visit. Excellent view of Rock Center." (Submitted on Dec 3 2007.)

REMEMBER: 25th reunion is June 13-15, 2008

Contact John Knight at jknight@deerfield.edu (immediately!)

ANNUAL SUPPORT: Please take a minute to think about the kind of stretch commitment you could make for our 25th. It makes a huge difference for Deerfield, with over 30% of the total coming from the 9 reunion classes – not including the 50th reunion… THANKS

CONTACTING THE EDITOR:
Please let me know if there is a better email address for this missive…Email for newsletter contributions is jknight01038@comcast.net – or you could always use classnotes@deerfield.edu, or POST YOUR OWN to the website at www.deerfieldalumni.org. Hope to hear from you…

Homer and Greenberg in Boston

It was great to catch up with John Homer and Josh Greenberg in January 08 - before the big 25th reunion...