Gather 'round fellow members of the class... After my wife, Nancy, started a blog last summer with lots of pictures and comments about side-trips the Summer School made, or she made on her own, our friends really seemed to enjoy it... I posted the URL to a few classmates, and one suggested we start a blog for the class, so here it is.
Email me pictures and stories of your life, now, right after Taft, and in between... that way you won't be bored with my drivvel about what I am doing, and you'll have some great reading and reconnect with friends you may not have seen for 46 years!
I did have such an adventure on my way to teach at Summer School: Bo Chapin, whom I have not seen since graduation, emailed me, and Nancy and I stopped for a wonderful, spur-of-the-moment reunion with Bo and his wife, Sandy... Here we are in front of "Digger's Diner" where everyone in the place knew Bo! It was truly a wonderful meeting, one we hope to repeat with Bo and Sandy, and the rest of you lot.
2 comments:
I am absolutely delighted that Jack has started this 'blog'! It's beyond time for us to use this extraordinary medium to stay in touch. Personally, I'm on the bloody net from 5AM til around 6PM doing my work so it's like tying a shoelace for me to use the thing.
It's been 46 years, guys, that we left each other to start this journey; there have GOT TO BE some fantastic, sad, warm, desolating, uplifting stories that we can share. Anybody ever read Wallace Stegner's last book (I think?) 'Crossing to Safety'? It's all about how two college friends manage their lives, one well, one not so well. One of the themes in the book is that breeding, money and position do NOT guarantee success in life. The comes, if at all, from some other reservoir of values. Taft, and college, taught me a lot of those values; my family some and experience the rest and I haven't turned out too badly, though I do have some deep psychic scars that, someday, I'll be able to share.
As for me, it hasn't been all good, and nor should it have been or I would never have learned anything. It's a tough one, but it is through failures (hopefully not lethal) that people learn. Taft gave me a big boost up. I just wish I had been more mature to appreciate the value of what was on offer.
Anyway, enough 'boosting' for what Jacks gone and done all on his own. I promise to start posting some more interesting crap, but only if someone asks.
Any takers?
Philip
Incidentally, Jack, it didn't occur to me til a few minutes ago while I was looking at the picture you posted that I used to know (and like a lot!) Bo Chapin's sister, Ming Chapin, when I lived in San Francisco. We were on a Charity Board together and had a wonderful time partying outside of doing our civic duty, even to the point of our taking sailing lessons together on the Bay. What a disaster that was! Learning to sail on SF Bay is like being in a dingy in the Bay of Bengal during a typhoon. If you can sail the Bay, you can sail anywhere! Anyway, please pass this on to Bo and ask him where Ming is now. I'd love to contact her again!
Philip
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