Sep/Oct 2013

Jack Lantz (Jack.Lantz@muc.miyachi.com) e-writes: “The exciting news is that Hotei Publishing has just published a book, sponsored by Scripps College, on our Japanese woodblock print collection, titled Genji’s World In Japanese Woodblock Prints. We believe the book is the definitive discussion and presentation of the Genji woodblock print phenomenon of early nineteenth-century Japan, which in turn was derived from The Tale of Genji originally published in the eleventh century and which has become a foundation stone for Japan culture. Our book is available on Amazon, of course, as well as through local bookstores.”

Jim Grew (jimhgrewjr@cs.com) e-writes: “I am currently president of USA Water Ski, and was recently inducted into the national Water Ski Hall of Fame.” What your scribe found most impressive is that the competition ski lake next to the Hall of Fame building is now known as Lake Grew.

David C. Johnson (dcjohnson47@yahoo.com) handwrites: “I am still working full throttle as an orthopedic surgeon in Washington, DC, particularly involving sports medicine—from ballet dancers to the Washington Nationals baseball team. My older daughter, Emily (Princeton ’02), got married in September 2012, and my younger daughter, Katié (Harvard ’07), is starting her own Internet company (Carbon 38). Both live and work in California (S.F. and L.A., respectively), a continent away from their empty-nesting parents! My wife Patty and I have been married 40 years last December, and are heading to Paris to celebrate!”

In the news: Steve Schwarzman has endowed the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University in China. The scholars will be housed in Schwarzman University, to be completed in 2016.

Classmates: Our 45th reunion is scheduled for May 29 to June 1, 2014. It is only months away. If you and I are lucky, maybe there will be four or five more of these to go to in our lifetimes. Hope to see you there.

“Well this could be the last time / This could be the last time / Maybe the last time / I don’t know. Oh no. Oh no.”—The Rolling Stones (www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pTQdizSU8)

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”—Margaret Mead (1901–1978).