"Informal Reunion" 2019 - An e-mail from Tom Roemer, a '62 graduate of Xavier, recently reached Carol (Nass) Heid, our 2012 50th-Reunion chairperson, that she thought might interest others in our class who have an interest in "gathering" this fall. I have contacted Tom and he has verified the information in his message is correct.

March 2019 - While I have been updating the IN MEMORIAM and MISSING pages since the arrival of 2019, I have left the remainder of this website pretty much untouched since the reunion.

It was originally constructed to provide a place classmates could check when they wanted information related to the then-upcoming 50th reunion. Other materials were added on a �just for fun� basis.

I think it would be fair to say that those who attended the reunion had a good time. But it would be equally true that Carol (Nass) Heid, who managed the effort, and many of her willing workers were left a bit worn out by the many tasks that needed attention. More than a few said something to the effect, �Gee, that was fun, but once was enough.�

The reasonable thing to have done immediately after the reunion was to post pictures, but that did not happen. Several things stood in the way. But the biggest reason was strictly personal. Before the reunion, I had been away from my business for about a month and I had to get back to it. And once that happened, time just slipped away.

Since I had already paid for the domain name and the storage space, there was no additional costs associated with allowing the site to stay active, so the easiest thing to do was to let it remain for the short term. That way, anyone curious about our class would still have something they could look at.

But six and a half years have passed now. It is silly to leave the reunion materials on the site, but, again, doing nothing requires far less work than editing the material out. The easiest thing is to just pay the costs of allowing the site to �sit.�

Late last year, fellow '62er Jane Kupfer sent an e-mail. She was aware of additional subtractions to the ranks of those above the grass and asked that I update the IN MEMORIAM page. Jane is a cracker-jack researcher ... what else would you expect from a professional librarian (now retired)! ... and since I am into my 39th year of doing similar research, it prompted me to start working through the list of people listed on the MISSING page. About a third of those have been sorted now.

So what about the future? For the near term, as time permits, I will work on the fate of our classmates. But I will begin working on other areas as well. The original CONTACTS page has been trimmed as it had a number of folks who were only connected to the reunion. I will probably pull down the reunion information as well.

If you have any thoughts or interesting �stuff� that some of our classmates might be interested in, don�t hesitate to contact me. My e-mail address is on the CONTACTS page.

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