Saturday, October 23, 2004: "Tailgate" gathering.  

The home game vs. Harvard is at 1pm.  Classmates will gather for luncheon at Jadwin Gym before the game starting at 10:30am.  Afterward there will be cocktails/dinner at Quadrangle Club.  Bring your own lunch to Jadwyn or buy it there for $8.  Dinner is $20 per person.

Joe can also get game tickets for $7 each which will be handed out at the Jadwyn lunch.

Chairman: Joe McGinity

Who came and how did it go?:

We had a good group at the Tailgate and game. They were 


                  Rob Walker and Tim Mygatt 
also,
Adams
Brakeley
Cole
Hlafter
Kimball
Krongard
McGinity
Reynolds 
Scasserra
Carol Wojciechowicz

plus Dan Cole (Jim's son, now a senior at Oberlin and a varsity lacrosse player) and our newest classmate (a transfer from '62) Claude Koprowski and his wife Liz and daughter Alex '00. The Koprowski's are from Easton MD. He retired recently from management of emergency services at a community hospital, and is now president of the local theater group. They are staging The Miser by Moliere in February.  This news was rather unsettling to Rick and Kathy Wall, until Claude assured them no Princetonians were in the cast.


Justin Kimball (pictured above with Ellen Brakeley) told us he also retired recently from SmithKline Beecham, and after a short break, is now volunteering as project manager for a new information system at a non-profit.

Cookie Krongard is still playing lacrosse at top speed, both in league play on Long Island, and in the annual varsity - alumni game at Princeton. The game was last week, played in a hailstorm (until it was stopped), and he faced a storm of shots on goal. He wouldn't give us the details, but I think the alumni won. Way to go Cookie.

It would have been more fun watching that lacrosse game last weekend than the 39 - 14 drubbing we took from Harvard on Saturday. Wow. We started off great with two turnovers and a 14 - 3 lead in the 1st Quarter. But then the bigger and faster Harvard line forced a sack, a blocked punt, and generally shut us down. But the afternoon was beautiful, a typical fall day in Princeton with the trees in reds and golds.

The gathering and dinner in Quad were convivial as usual.  We discussed the reunion theme  - Mygatt, Walker, Scasserra, Brakeley, Wall, Tollerton and Co. I believe the consensus was to have another drink and give it some more thought, but the general reception was pretty positive.  [see Discussion page]

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