There, Bob Seidenstein wrote about how reading his class notes made him feel like an underachiever. Just because we happen to be mired in mediocrity does not mean our lives aren't worth mentioning, too. She tries to read a book a month but is often interrupted in the evening by junk phone calls. Barbara recalls meeting an alum who works as a carpenter. She urged him to drop a line to his class correspondent.
Several correspondents acknowledge they pay close attention to the tone of their columns.
Karen Springen, '83, reminds me that many items come from newspaper clips or press releases, so readers should not assume self-promotion. All this was on my mind when I sat down to proof Class Notes for this issue. Sure, I found plenty of items trumpeting career moves, civic honors, small personal triumphs. That's the stuff of life for most of us. But I also found slices of humanity.