Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!) is the motto for New Orleans, and roll they did for 28 classmates who convened in this beautiful, incredibly fun, and historic treasure in late March for a four-day mini-reunion. Present were event organizers Julie and Mike Cherry, Lex Kelso, Annie Patton and Art Lowenstein, Jill Brooks and Jeff Hammond, and Julie and Geoff Smith, as well as Linda and Tom Stubbs, Laura Rojas and Tom Connell, Ellen Higgins and John Brower, Hildy and John Drummond, Lois Phillips and Dennis Thompson, Ginnie and Luther Munford, Karen and Alan Usas, Liza and KP Kirkpatrick, Debra and Mike Decker, and Kevin Mackey.

Linda Bell Blackburn participated in a March 30 panel discussion on the early graduating classes that included women, sponsored by Princeton’s Gender + Sexuality Resource Center in connection with Women’s History Month. Her expertise on women students at Princeton spans three generations, as she is the mother of Akira Bell ’95 and the grandmother of Samantha Johnson ’23.

David Chamberlain’s painting “Going Back” has been chosen by the Princeton University Art Museum for inclusion in a new collection being placed in Prospect House. With luck it will be on display by Reunions. This adds to numerous other paintings and a bronze sculpture by David that are already part of PUAM’s permanent collection.

Stu Rickerson’s daughter Lucy, graduating from Princeton in May, was the only Ivy Leaguer to earn United Coaches Scholar All-America honors and also named first team All-Ivy for the second time. Lucy co-captained the Tigers soccer team during the 2021 season, which they ended ranked 17th in the nation. 

George Kapelos writes: “I was delighted to receive my copy of the class’s 50th  Reunion Yearbook. Well done to Chris and Ray. When Chris wrote last spring to get my mailing address, he asked if I had a US address as the mailing would be much cheaper. I had to remind him that I lived north of the border. Serves me right. The book arrived at my post office box and the clerk was very concerned that I open the package in front of her. You see, the US Postal service delivered the book in a HUGE bag, zip-tied with a mailing tag about half the size of the book. It seems that during pandemic times, as mail crosses the border, it is being specially processed, I suppose to prevent spread of the virus. I’ve heard from others living outside the USA – including my neighbor Dick Balfour – that their books arrived similarly shrouded. Good thing the mails are working and great to have the book and hear the news of all. Well done to the editors and to our classmates for contributing their life stories. Now I know about draft numbers (low, high and in-between), spouses (one, two or more), the surprise that lots of us had at being admitted to Princeton, along with lots of pictures of kids, grand-kids and wine drinkers in exotic places. I like snail-mail, by the way, so now that I have mailing addresses for most of you, I may be in touch, the US/Canada border notwithstanding.”