Dear Classmates,

A lot has happened since our 45th and a lot more is on the horizon. For those who attended our 45th Reunion Sunday Brunch, we had a most memorable get together with our honorary classmate, General David Petraeus *87. Lo and behold, we just learned that he will be the recipient of the Madison Medal Award at Alumni Day, February 20, 2010. For those who haven’t attended in the past, Alumni Day features a wonderful luncheon in Jadwin Gym at which the University honors a handful of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students for the superior achievements, and both an undergraduate alumnus and an alumnus of the Graduate School for their career accomplishments. The two alumni awardees both give public lectures in the morning and attend other events during the day in addition to the luncheon at Jadwin. There is a full schedule of events that day including the Service of Remembrance at 3:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon. This is an extremely moving event in the University Chapel open to all alumni. Rich Intersimone will be our class representative to honor our fallen classmates who have died in the past year. At 4:30 Saturday afternoon our class will assemble for a reception at the Woodrow Wilson School. We intend to have our four class scholarship recipients as well as one former recipient attend. Also, although many of you may not know, there are a number of other undergraduates on campus who benefit from privately funded scholarships from classmates including scholarships from Parsky, Brown, Raymond, Barrett, Johnson and Al-Faisal. We plan to invite them. Finally, we will try to have a few of our classmates’ children join us including Hugh Lynch’s and Peter Kurz’s sons and Ben Oseroff. In effect, this is your chance to mingle for an hour and a half with some exceptional young people. We are hopeful that General Petraeus can drop by for a few minutes if his schedule permits. We have been in touch with him and he promises to do what he can to join us.

Next, I am happy to announce that Georg Winckler, the President of the University of Vienna has graciously accepted our invitation to join us as an honorary classmate. Right now he plans to join us for a reception after the Harvard game, October 23, 2010 with his wife, Gudrun.

As previously noted, there are a bunch of classmates heading to Patagonia this Spring and we await their return with photos and news.

The first Tuesday of every month sees a bunch of '64 classmates break bread at the Princeton Club of New York at 12 noon. $30.00 buys a beautiful lunch and a friendly assembly.

Of course, reunions are scheduled for May 28, 29 and 30. It will be a low key event for us but as long as the beer taps from the Class of ‘65 are open we are sure that we can accommodate them.

In case you have missed the prior notices, our California Wine Tour Mini-Reunion is going gangbusters. Balassone, Beron, Brant, Burman, Dann, Dick Davis, Dowhan, Flint, Henry, Johnson, Kuser, McFerran, Meeker, Minich, Murphy, Newens, Price, Ringo, Schwendler, Serafini, Snedeker, Sweet, Waitneight, Walker, Wetherill, Constant (our host) are strong. There are others that have expressed interest but not a definite yes as yet. Bill Walker (610-832-5200), (wwalker@boenninginc.com) is the man to contact.

Anyone with news or comments can get in touch with co-secretaries, Jo Johnson and Pete Carry. They would love to hear from you.

Ed Murphy
President, Princeton Class of 1964