The Clifford Trio

The Clifford Trio

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Mark Gergen

Happy to comply since we have news. I will be leaving University of Texas School of Law after 23 years to take a tenured position at Berkeley Law School starting in August. My wife, Susan Whitman, will be Assistant Dean for Academic Planning and Curriculum Coordination at the law school. While we are leaving Austin, our oldest son, Ben, will be starting law school at UT. Our second son, Danny, is off to Johns Hopkins where he will play basketball. Our youngest son, Jonathan, will become a Californian and a sophomore at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco.

Roger Brown

Bruce,

Your "brilliantly crafted" message incited me to bail you out --

My oldest daugher Farrell will go to Oberlin in September after spending a semester studying Arabic in Jordan. She is currently bussing tables in our classmate Steve Johnson's wonderful restaurant, Rendezvous, in Cambridge and reports that it is the best run restaurant one can imagine. According to Farrell, they save the residue from slicing bread to have fresh bread crumbs, grow their own herbs on a rooftop herb garden, and all the food is fresh and delicious. So come patronize a classmate when you are next in Boston.

Roger

Will Work For Notes

Will Work for Class Notes...

If I learned anything at Davidson, it was how to get stuff done at the last moment. My class notes are due and I am scrambling to come up with some news.

So here I am panhandling at the busy intersection of your work, and family, and life.

Keyboard in hand, unshavened, rumpled clothing, large patches of hair standing at right angles to my head, mismatched shoes, smelling faintly of tuna and cigarette smoke, asking if you can spare a word or two.

Just a few words that will get me on the literary bus back to Davidson. I won't spend them on inappropriate musings in some internet chat room. I swear. Can you help a guy down on his luck?

And I don't need much. Three or four lines would be great. What are you passionate about these days? Done something interesting? Changed jobs? Retired? Gotten tired? Have you moved? Taken an interesting trip? What's up with the family? Big anniversary? Do you just want to say hello to your old classmates?

I'm not looking for New York Times front page top of the fold stuff. Just a few words that will help us all think of you fondly and remember when you wore plaid and listened to music by Foghat.

Email to hollidaybr78@aol.com.

I hope you are doing well and thanks in advance for your help.

Bruce Holliday
Class Secretary '78
hollidaybr78@aol.com