Class of 1972 Newsletter

If you watched this year’s virtual reunion, you heard fellow alums sharing interests in everything from art collecting to travel. Many of you, too, have done things personally or professionally…

Long and winding roads have taken us to weird and wonderful places over the years, places that have given us invaluable insights into other cultures and fascinating stories to share…

When Meg Mahoney’s husband Jake saw an ad in a paper for English speakers to teach English in Japan, Meg was 15 years out of Carleton, 15 years away from…

In 1976 I was the technical director of Columbia College Dance Center in Chicago. I would be handed a contract for a group to perform in my theatre or a…

I’ve lived most of my adult life in England. This is all thanks to the easy decision to spend my junior year studying at Lancaster University in the northwest of…

Steve met his wife during his junior year abroad in England. When they married nine years later it was understood that someday they would return to Barbara’s home country. That…

They could have chosen to live in Ponape, a green tropical island with waterfalls and mountains, but they chose Majuro, whose climate was so fierce that when Jim Plasman and…

In 1989, my husband Fred and I spent six weeks in Lima, Peru, to adopt our son. We stayed at first in a Suite hotel and then in an apartment…

What are you investing your time and energy in nowadays?   We’d love to hear what you are doing to make the world a better place, from caring for parents…

As this and previous newsletters have shown, we hope, the Class of ’72 is a diverse group filled with fascinating people. And YOU are one of them. We want to…