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Class Pages : Class of 1977

30 Reunion Letter

November 2006

Dear ’77 Classmate,

Not to be outdone by my predecessors, I’m opening with a profound quotation regarding the fleet-footedness of time, to wit:

                Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like bananas.

If you’re like me, at this point in your life you’re either crying about the aging process, or laughing. I recently experienced an object lesson in optimism on that point. After I signed in at a table hosted by the local board of elections, I made some cranky comment about the rapid loss of memory I was experiencing. The gentleman who oversaw my signature, his white sweater complemented by his bright white hair, growled benevolently, “Be careful!” I instantly understood his message and felt ashamed. As the moment sunk in, I saw an elderly woman enter the voting booth and try to flip a few of the switches, but the mechanics of it seemed beyond her ability to comprehend. Correction: two object lessons. One about what I had been taking for granted, and one about what I had to lose. Two sides of the same coin.

In this light, I think back with gratitude on my four years at Northfield Mount Hermon. Even then, in the midst of the simultaneous traumas of essays, exams, hormonally exaggerated passions, and close-quartered living with savage teen boys—even then I was aware of how fortunate I was to be learning from such great teachers, with such great resources at my disposal, in the midst of such great company.

Coming to your high school reunion can enliven you, make you feel young, help you forgive your youthful indiscretions, or—if you didn’t have any—allow you to gloat that you knew better even then. You may discover that your classmates are the same as always, yet different too. You also get to see how the school has been made new. This may be an unsettling development to some, but it would be hard for this class not to understand the necessity of change. While many will mourn the loss of the Northfield campus, there’s much to explore in the revamped Mount Hermon campus: new cottages, the budding farm, and the future Rhodes Center for the Arts (estimated to be finished in 2008).

And because it’s our 30th reunion, you won’t have all the pressure that might have kept you away from the 25th.  Come as you are, see old friends, and make new ones with people you may never have known as a student. Our ranks include television producers, lawyers, carpenters, teachers, bankers, brokers, filmmakers, psychologists, farmers, and on and on.

So if you haven’t made it to a reunion for a while—or ever—try to make it to this one. And if you have been to recent reunions, come back again! We’ll all be here, and we really want to see you. The dates are June 7–10. We’ll be staying in Hayden and some of the cottages. More information will come in the spring.  For now, visit the school website (www.nmhschool.org) and log on to the class of 1977 alumni page to see what your classmates are up to.

In the meantime, feel free to contact any member of the reunion planning committee to make suggestions about what you’d like to do at the reunion besides loaf. Offer a workshop? Sing or read in a cabaret? Play softball against the class of 1982? Let us know.

Sincerely,

David Ruekberg,
Reunion Cochair

 

Other Officers:
Class Reunion Cochair: Anne Howard
Class Gift Cochair: Jonathan Rubin
Class Gift Cochair: Sarah Stuart (Clark)
Class Secretary: Anne Howson,

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Class AF Goals & Giving
NMH Annual Fund : Class Progress July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008

Class and School	Giving to Date	Pledges to Date	Goal	Donors to Date	Pledges to Date	Donors Goal
1977NMH	$11927	$1475	$28000	44	6	72

Last Update: June 27, 2008

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