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 '66 - The Overall Class

 

 

2009 Alumni Day Class Dinner

Saturday, February 21

 

The photo shows Anne-Marie Slaughter, newly-appointed Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department, speaking at our recent Alumni Day Class Dinner.  Dr. Slaughter is currently on public service leave from her appointment as the BERT G. KERSTETTER '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School.

    

                                  

 

She and her husband Andy Moravcsik, Professor of Politics at Princeton, told us family anecdotes and insights from the year in which they and their two young children lived in China. During the year they had opportunities both to meet with high-ranking party officials and to travel widely throughout China and its neighboring countries. Taking turns at the podium, they described China as a country running at such a pace and with such enthusiasm for change that it has almost obliterated its own historical memory. Only a few architectural buildings and monuments have survived China’s massive urbanization efforts, and those few are retained primarily as tourist attractions.  Pollution, both of the air and of major waterways, is a real problem but these are considered acceptable exchanges for noticeable improvements in economic and social, if perhaps not political, lifestyles for many of its people.

 

The Chinese New Year celebration, with its six days of near-continual fireworks displays, captured for them the exuberance and potential of modern-day China.  This was especially true when Andy realized that he, too, could go out in his rented backyard and blow off 2000 renmibis worth of explosives as big as a dining room table.  During the Q&A which followed they were asked how their children had adapted to life in a new and different culture from their life in Princeton township. Slowly, was the answer, but successfully. It evidently became much easier once the older son learned how to barter and the younger discovered the many varieties of food that were available to him. Andy and Ann-Marie encouraged everyone to follow up any opportunity to travel abroad as a family. For them it built some wonderful bonds and a sense of shared reliance that is lasting well beyond the experience itself. 

 

Attending the event at the Nassau Club this year were TERRY BEATTY, WALT BLISS, BRIAN BREUEL, DAVE BUTLER, ERNIE CRUIKSHANK, BUD D’AVELLA, DENNY DAVIS, CARL EASTWICK, JOHN EDIE, TONY FITCH, MITCH GOROSKI, NELSON HENDLER, LANNY JONES, BERT KERSTETTER, DAVE KINARD, GEORGE LARGAY, BRUCE LESLIE, DON McCABE, JIM MERRRITT, KIT MILL, GARY MOUNT, BOB NAHAS, JIM PARMENTIER, CHARLIE PLOHN, BILL SACHS, JEFF SHAFER, KEARNEY SHANAHAN, WALT SMEDLEY, DAVE STITZER, LAMAR SMITH, HENRY VON KOHORN, and MIKE WITTE. We were joined for the evening by four undergraduates, Mark Limperis ’10, PJ Das ’12, Robby Edmiston ’11, and Maura Mathieu ’10.  Mark, Robby and PJ have received scholarships from either the Class of 1966 or from members of our class, while Maura is the daughter of Owen and Eileen Mathieu.

 

Class Day photos ...

 

        

Bert Kerstetter, Andy Moravcsik                                         Bert Kerstetter, Susan Mill, Kit Mill, Brian Breuel

 

          

    Bert Kerstetter, Brian Breuel                Bill Sachs, Ernie Cruikshank                                

 

          

    Bud D'Avella, Maura Mathieu '10                            Jeff & Mary Lou Shafer, John Edie,

                                                                                          George Largay, Charlie Plohn

 

 

     

 

 

Executive Committee News

 

                Robert F. Goheen '40, h'66 (1919-2008)

 

To an ultimate friend and honorary member of the class of 1966, we give a locomotive---

 

    Hip--Hip...Rah, Rah,
    Rah, Tiger Tiger Tiger, Siss, Siss, Siss, Boom, Boom, Boom, BAhhh.
    Goheen! Goheen! Goheen!"

 

Nassau Herald Photos

 

 

 

Class Discussion Group

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