Steve Brown reports in Class Notes:

We had a great time at our 2017 Mini-Reunion when 32 alums and friends of the Class of ’71 enjoyed a weekend full of classes, meeting with then-President Adam Falk, sporting events and plain old good times. Here are a few highlights of our weekend in the Purple Valley. Our medical contingent was well-represented by Elizabeth and Craig Blum, Bob Eyre and Katie Eyre ’73, Ellen and Mike Rade, and Mark and Sharon Ruchman. Our doctor classmates reported that they were still enjoying their work and working hard, although there was reason to question how hard a particular surgeon from Buffalo was working when he carded a 35 on the front nine at Taconic, including an eagle 2 on the 7th. I was not aware that some surgeons in Buffalo regularly see their patients on the practice tee or putting greens. Our reunion chair and class VP, Rob Farnham, took a couple of days off from installing windows and doing masonry on his fixer-upper in Burlington, Vt., to rally the troops. We are hoping he will do a TED Talk to teach us all how to build stone walls and do landscaping with boulders. Peggy and Larry Ferraro made the trip up from South Carolina, where they retired 11 years ago. Larry fired up the crowd at dinner on Saturday night. I think he has a second career as a motivational speaker. Larry was joined on the retirement front by Joe Quattlebaum and his wife, Joan, also up from the South. Louise and John Finnerty rolled in from New York, where John is still teaching economics at Fordham to undergrads and grad students. Anne and Jock MacKinnon made the trip from NYC. Denise and Bob Schwed came, and Bob added a strong dose of dry humor to Pres. Falk’s serious remarks on Friday afternoon. Valle Schloesser earned his dinner and extra piece of red velvet cake on Saturday night by cycling up Mount Greylock earlier that day. Ann and Nick Tortorello came from Philadelphia, and Nick did an excellent job educating all of us on his group’s class gift suggestion to promote work and internships for Williams students in public service. Meg and Paul Schneider joined us on Saturday night for dinner, and both are at early stages of retirement. Mary and John Untereker traveled up for the weekend from Houston, Texas. It was a wonderful time.