Dear
Classmates:
As I
write, we are just about two years away from our 50th Reunion in May
2012. I just attended my 45th Columbia Law School reunion and the
universal sentiment there seemed to be "Wow, you've made it."
I think they were referring to survival rather than money but you
can never tell with a lot of New York lawyers. The important thing
for us, however, is to "make it" to the Reunion in 2012.
There have been vast changes in the "quant old Jersey town"
as well as in our now not so quaint college that stands on the Banks
of the Raritan. For those of us who live or work near New Brunswick
and get a chance to visit the school occasionally, the differences
over 50 years are not so evident but if your visits are every five
or ten years, I think you'd be amazed at what's been happening.
The
last Rutgers College class graduated in 2010 and the school now has
undergone a program of unification in which what we knew as colleges
have mostly merged into the Arts and Science faculty. The closeness
that we felt where the graduating class measured in the hundreds rather
than the thousands can probably not be recaptured. Working with your
class officers and others in various functions over the past years
has indeed made me grateful for the friendship that the relatively
small college atmosphere gave to our experience on the Banks.
The
point of all that sentimental introduction is to see if we can get
you to help recapture some of that feeling in a weekend in May of
2012 at our 50th Reunion. In the next few months, I will be working
with the other class officers to create some class committees and
will be reaching out to you to serve in one or more capacities to
help recapture those fond memories of 50 years ago. We will need fundraisers,
gift planners, entertainment and event planners and innumerable people
that can simply reach out to other class members and encourage them
to come to a truly once-in-a-lifetime event. Some of us are still
working, many of us are retired and moved out of the area but I urge
you all to plan ahead and set aside what will probably be the second
weekend in May for this terrific event.
If things
go according to past practice, we will be inducted into the Old Guard
on Friday night, have the traditional Saturday parade and tours and
wind up Saturday evening with our own class dinner. The weekend will
be interspersed with golf tournaments, concerts and various other
forms of entertainment. I have been working with your class officers
to locate a super venue for our class dinner and there are a number
of both brand new and remodeled sites which should prove an exciting
place to have our own class dinner.
In the
interim, I once again urge you to get your email address in to Barry
Pavelec who is updating an already terrific class website so that
we can better communicate with you. You can reach him at barry@pavelec.com
and you can reach me with any ideas, suggestions and request to volunteer
at sjfreedman@nmmlaw.com.
Remember, most of all, stay well because we are looking forward to
seeing each of you "On the Banks" in May of 2012.
Regards,
Stuart
Freedman
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