Ralph Strawn writes: “This is my first submission to the BAM since I graduated. I entered Brown with the class of ’77 but took a year off to live and work in England. I finally graduated as a fifth-year senior with the class of ’78. I like to joke with friends of mine who are big college football fans in Alabama, where I have practiced law since 1981, that I unsuccessfully redshirted myself in 1976 in a failed attempt to get Brown’s football team back to the Rose Bowl when I returned. Also, on April 1, I joined my wife, two daughters, and brother Roger Strawn at a Brown alumni seminar hosted by Josiah Carberry, legendary professor of psychoceramics. He was speaking about his recent trip to some of those unnamed places ‘where certain fungal infections are common’ you have to tell your doctor that you’ve been to if you’re taking certain medications advertised on TV. We were looking forward to hearing about an archaeological dig for cracked pots in some tropical or exotic faraway place, but unfortunately he had only been to the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, Central New York, and Texas, where histoplasmosis is especially common.”
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Class of 1978