All classmates, spouses, families, and friends are welcome. It could be the start of a great weekend. Charles, a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel with more than thirty-two years of active duty, was a military adviser with the U.S. Naval Mission to Haiti from 1959 to 1962. Planning to attend in May 2001 are 245 men, women, and spouses. Seventy-five percent are planning to stay in downtown hotels, with the Biltmore as our main headquarters.
Events most favored by classmates are the cocktail party, dinner dance, clambake, and boat trip.
Ernie writes that he and Sheila gave Herb a tour of nearby Charleston to reciprocate Herb's guided tour of Israel. John Andersen , Lake Forest, Ill., and John Andersen Jr . '79, Wilmette, Ill., climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in February 1998. There was an unusual amount of snow, which made the climb more difficult, but they made it to the summit and fixed a Brown banner on the mountaintop. Helen Ware Larkin writes that she and her husband, Jack, taught English in Xi'an, China, in October through an Elderhostel service project. The purpose of the project was to expose Chinese students to native English speakers, since many of their teachers have not studied abroad.