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In June of 2022, our class will have the opportunity to see each other in person. As time moves quickly for our age group, a year and a half seems…
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Our vinyl record-themed class logo came about because the early reunion planners couldn’t identify one song that epitomized our experience at Carleton. There is simply too much great music from…
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How Terribly Strange Grand to Be Seventy Few of us gave much thought in 1972, I suspect, to what it would be like to be a septuagenarian. I know I…
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In 1971-72, the Carleton vegetarian food program started a two-acre garden plot for farm-to-table freshness and served dinner to 125 people. Coordinating the program changed the course of Scott Parsons’…
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If part of healthy aging is maintaining a good sense of perspective and humor, Jane Pflughoeft Plowman is well on her way. Jane spent most of her post-Carleton adulthood…
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“Head in the sand” is definitely not Kate Ligare’s approach to aging and downsizing. Because she took early retirement, she has lived with people 10-15 years older than she for…
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Diane Bick’s key to health is the combination of nature outside her door and sociable exercise. This winter, she’s living at her family cabin in Lake Nebagamon, WI, three and…
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The defining chapter in his life for Roger Trangsrud was an intimation of mortality that came without warning. “Twenty years ago I had an asymptomatic heart attack,” recalls Roger, who…
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Back to the land? Ann Shrader never left. For her, the self-sustaining, healthy communal life envisioned and celebrated in the Sixties and Seventies is alive and well. Ann lives in…
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Glenn McDavid I took up bicycling when I went to grad school at Stanford in the fall of 1972. This was out of necessity: The campus was too big to…
