May 2004

Hello, classmates. I begin this submission with a last-minute plug for reunion. If you are still debating attendance, consider this: There will be no presidential candidates at our bash, only a few Skull and Bones members pushing Bush and Kerry. Who would have thought that our class would be distinguished by the fact that it had no presidential aspirants in 2004? If only Mark Dayton or Lamar Smith were more ambitious.

Not much on the correspondence front this time. David Tufaro is the lone communicator. He wrote from Baltimore to update you on the whereabouts and doings of his three daughters. “Theresa graduated from Washington University with a major in Spanish and a minor in biology, and is currently teaching English as a second language. Jennifer is a junior at Southern Cal, where she is pursuing her interest in film. She worked on Ladder 49 last summer when that feature-length Disney production was being filmed in Baltimore. (It is due to be released in October.) Our youngest, Christina, is a junior in high school in Baltimore.”

On the social climbing front (no, that isn’t fair; I think we probably have plateaued),David Darst and wife Diane clearly have arrived, as their handsome glossy photo inGreenwich magazine attests. They were pictured at a fundraiser for the Bruce Museum in last October’s edition. (Hey, a little late, but timeless.)

And speaking of media, a March New York Times piece on Bush and Kerry at Yale provided a nice bit of nostalgia. It mentions the Buckley-Coffin debate on Vietnam, discusses the contrast between Kerry’s Fence Club and Bush’s DKE, and quotes classmate John O’Leary. You can check it out in the NYT archives in the March 21 “Week in Review” section.

See you at reunion. Golfers better bring their “A” games. — JY