Sharon and I received a great surprise visit from classmate Walt Buchsieb and his wife Betty.  Talked about many of our other classmates as well as places we used to hang out.  Also remembered that our mothers were classmates at Columbus South High School.  We did agree that we were very fortunate to have been born and raised in such a great community as Bexley.
 

We had a very successful 60th class reunion.  On Friday we were at the home of JoAnn Baldwin Hickle and on Saturday morning at Edith Mae Hamilton Herrel's home for a brunch.  In all we had 58 at both events that represented 41 class members from Bexley, Academy and CSG.  The Bexley class of 1947 has lost 38 members over the years, but we are a very close group and have had these reunions every 5 years.  The Committee was Norval Goss, JoElise May Davis,

Mary Jo Chase Edwards, Joyce Madison Jacobs, Carol Crumley Paprocki, Daine Nolan Byers, JoAnn Baldwin Hickle, Edith Mae Hamilton Herrel and Walter Buchsieb.  The weather was great for the events and on Friday Don Coe played music from the 50's.  We have eight members that are unaccounted for.  We have great hopes to do this again in five years.  We had members from Minnesota, Florida, Tennessee, Michigan, and Indiana in attendance.
 

In a career that began at the Bexley High Torch, I continue to write, ie: An Island Sheltered, the 350th anniversary book of Shelter Island, a social history that began with a Barbados sugar merchant in the 1640s.  I summer on that island in a big old creaky Victorian, always sliding down our bluff toward the sea.  Buy the book, or better yet, come visit.  I am currently finishing Cultivating America, the Saga of Seedsmen, beginning with John Bartram, royal botanist to George III.  It ends with Luther Burbank and genetically-altered corn and soybean crops.  My daughter Liza lives in Columbus and is married to Bill Smith, who sells diamonds at the Diamond Cellar.  Please go buy one.  My three other children are festooned cross-country – a hop, skip and a jump – New York to Colorado to California.  Best to you all-
 

In October 2005 both my brother Richard, class of 1948, and I received awards from our professional associations.  Richard received the Holmes award by the Ohio Mining Association in Cambridge, Ohio and I received the Great Lakes Association of Orthodontists Distinguished Service Award at their annual meeting in Bermuda.
 

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