CLASS NEWS
(recent emails and other info)
Some News From Those Who Couldn't Come to the Reunion
Bill Brunstad writes:
Life is busy--two kids, girl 12 and boy 8, both in active private schools, baseball, tennis, etc.
Carol has a new growing landscape design service. I am practicing law most of the time, with a small, but also growing real estate equity/mezzanine finance business that I own with a couple of other guys just to make sure I don't get bored.
We have a house on a lake in Northeast Georgia that occupies a lot of time in the summer. Just got the 12 year old her first boat (only 5 hp), so this summer should be interesting. We are going to Hawaii for two weeks in July and then back to school.
Hope all is well with you and say hello to all to whom it might be significant at the reunion.
John Cooke is a Professor at Stanford University Medical Center. You can read about him at http://cvmed.stanford.edu/All_Faculty_bios/cooke_profile.htm.
Art Schankler is In London. He recently said:
Got my notice for the reunion in the mail. Unfortunately my parents will be visiting the weekend of the reunion. ( Will also be missing my 25th at Princeton and my gaudy at Repton as a result). While this would ordinarily give me an even better reason for flying off to Detroit for the weekend, my wife would not appreciate it. Although she still remembers CBrook from the last reunion and thinks of it as the most beautiful place in America. I moved to London last year to work for something called the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, working in Eastern Europe, so it would be an even longer trip back.
My new details are: Home: 6 Queens Mews, London W2 4BZ, 44 207 221 9216, aschankler@aol.com
Work (perhaps more permanent, although one never knows): EBRD, One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN, schankla@ebrd.com
My best to all who attend and of course, anyone passing through London or points east, please give a call.
I guess I should have mentioned that my son also has a little league baseball game on 8 June as well. Son? Well time passes.
Andre Koerner
and Whit Heaton
rowed across Lake Michigan last year. Andre notes that "I am a
naturalized Texan Michigrant working in the energy capital of the world - making
sure you guys have enough power for Espresso machines and Jacuzzi's.
Here's a link to (lost his) Whit's and my heroic exploit of last year. It
was quite a ride, but no match for an accomplished member of Soudek's evil crew.
Here's the Article from the July 26, 2001 Detroit Free Press::
July 26, 2001
Thirty years ago, Whit Heaton and Andre Koerner decided they wanted to row across Lake Michigan. This week, they did it.
Heaton and Koerner, former classmates at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook, rowed 62.4 miles from Kewaunee, Wis., to Frankfort in 31 hours, 40 minutes. They started Saturday night and finished at 5:20 a.m. Monday.
Their boat was an Alden Appledore 19, a 19-foot fiberglass craft with carbon fiber oars.
When they planned the trip 30 years ago, Heaton said, "we were 17-year-old boys. We spent the summer up here with a little dinghy."
Heaton now lives in Palo Alto, Calif., and Koerner in Mission City, Texas, but they kept in touch and "we got a boat three years ago," Heaton said. "Three years ago the weather was bad. Two years ago, I hurt my back and had to have surgery. Last year, Andre was in a car accident in Australia. This year, it worked out."
The first half of the trip was smooth, but some squalls hit as they neared Frankfort, and they faced waves up to four feet.
"It was long, very long," Heaton said. "The last 10 miles was horrible. Land didn't seem to get much closer....
"I'm glad we did it, but I sure wouldn't want to do it again. My doctor said we should have done it in our 20s.
By Owen Davis
Charlie Monk writes from the UK:
Really good luck with all this - sadly, it's peak exam time here and I will be up to my neck....
Pat Kridler (mother of Bruce and Brian) came to stay with us last month, and we'll be in Minnesota in July.
Best to all.
(For the amusement of contemporaries, you may be interested to hear I am summoned to Buckingham Palace on 2 May to be invested as a member of the Order of the British Empire - MBE - for, they say, services to the Combined Cadet Force ! A good day out - but the wife has to have a complete new outfit, and the daughters....!)