| Reunion Report: Class of 1940 |
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As has been Brown's good fortune over the years, the Commencement weekend enjoyed fine weather and the class of '40 took full advantage of it. On Friday afternoon we settled in at our class headquarters, the Kappa Sigma house. The first event of the weekend was the Brown Bear Buffet at the Sharpe Refectory, but this was preceded by a happy hour at our headquarters, where we spent time getting reacquainted and catching up on the past sixty years. For the more agile, the Campus Dance followed, while the less adventurous retired to Kappa Sigma for dessert and coffee. On Saturday afternoon, as has long been customary, the Pembroke and Brown classes held separate luncheons, but this time both were at the Faculty Club. The big event of the weekend was our class banquet at the Agawam Hunt Club, at which master of ceremonies Ken Clapp delighted us with a few anecdotes from our days on the Hill. He then introduced the feature of the evening - a black-and-white film made by Vic Schwartz's parents and featuring the march through the Van Wickle Gates on graduation day sixty years ago! On Sunday morning many of our class attended the service honoring departed classmates. On Monday morning we marched down the hill behind our 60th reunion banner. We were a bit gimpy, perhaps, but still full of spirit! -John J. McLaughry 60th reunion attendees: Edward Ball Shirley Roberts Barbour June Purcell Beddoe Dave Borst Margaret Fico Capasso Bret Carlson Dexter Chafee Ken Clapp Jean Bruce Cummings Stan Cummings Anne Mikolajewski Curtis Barbara Porter DeLuca Steve Dore Polly Tirrell English Russ Field Clyde Fisk Frank Giunta Sam Gourse Isabelle Stone Hofstein Bob Homma Roy Hunt Margaret Butterfield Hyde Rudolf Jaworski Fred Jellison Ray Johnston Edward Jones Esther Bourne Manning Althea Hall Mc Aleer Anne Keenan Mc Caffrey Ed McLaughlin John McLaughry Lib Ibell Medbury Ralph Messenger Alice Kutz Oster Dave Parlin Joseph Parnicky Harold Pfautz Ruth Campbell Pratt Millie Forsberg Resch Betty Hunt Schumann Victor Schwartz Robert Staff Hope Smith Sterrett Curt Warren Allen Williams Charlie Winterrowd
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