From our Class Secretary

Being secretary has provided many wonderful (and fun) experiences, broadening and deepening my somewhat fragmented acquaintance with our Class due to my arrival as a junior in the Critical Languages Program. To sum up in a word, the sense of the Class that emerges is willingness. We engage with the people and the activities of our lives with a willingness to dedicate the time and energy needed for the best results.

The deep and warm friendships among classmates have impressed me most of all. Many friendships that took root at Princeton have continued over the years or have been renewed in the personal time afforded by retirement. New ones grow, important catalysts being the Zoom calls that began during COVID and continue on a weekly basis. Although dubbed “the West Coast call” (on Monday evening, led by Tim Tosta) and “the East Coast call” (on Wednesday afternoon, led by Art Lowenstein), both are open to all Class members wherever they reside. Those who have not yet participated are encouraged to join. The calls offer the opportunity to share thoughts, experiences, and emotions, discuss personal and public issues, and to get to know each other better.

Class members also keep relationships strong by organizing regional meetings and reunions and Class trips, serving as Class officers and organizing Reunions and yearbooks and maintaining the Class website, and holding regular get-togethers at favorite local venues, all with the attention to detail that produces a flawlessly enjoyable result. We are committed to including and caring for every member of the Class, extending that caring to their survivors. We are devoted to the families that we have formed as they extend through the generations, to the larger society, and especially to those who face challenges. 

We are also dedicated to our work and the results that we have achieved as lawyers, entrepreneurs, economists, teachers, professors, researchers, scientists, ministers, chaplains, priests, pilgrims, scholars, consultants, artists, librarians and library administrators, architects, urban planners, engineers, accountants, analysts, pilots, inventors, designers, diplomats, executives, bankers, stock traders, investors, musicians, composers, conductors, writers, journalists, editors, publishers, judges, legislators, elected officials, political consultants, civil servants, public servants, servants of civil and public servants, social workers, practitioners in many fields of mental health, arbitrators, historic preservationists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists, craftspeople, trade negotiators, technicians, administrators in educational institutions, administrators of hospitals and public health institutions, roles in foundations and non-profits, intelligence officers, members and officers in the armed forces, financial experts, roles in real estate, land management, building, construction, and housing, environmentalists, foresters, fire fighters, farmers, veterinarians, zoo administrators, impresarios, film-makers, producers, screenwriters, playwrights, directors, actors, cartoonists, illustrators, computer programmers, IT professionals, roles in sales and marketing, actuaries, insurance agents, officials in sports teams, leagues, and organizations and more ... are impressive.

Our roster of service activities, too vast to include here, is being chronicled by Jeff Hammond in his monthly  emails. We may say with pride that our Class was and continues to be in the nation’s, and in the world’s, service.

Respectfully submitted with profound gratitude,

Linda Carroll