Bill Hutton is moving rapidly forward on our 60th Birthday Party/San Francisco Reunion, May 13-16, 1999. He’s reserved blocks of rooms at six hotels, each of which falls into the "boutique" category and is but a short walk from Union Square. Guaranteed group rates will range from $139 to $189 per night (plus the 14 percent tourist tax). The six: The Stanford Court, Cartwright (524 Sutter St.), Galleria Park (191 Sutter St.), Handlery Union Square (351 Geary St.), Canterbury (750 Sutter St.), and the Clarion Bedford. Reserve early because the annual Bay-to-Breakers race is scheduled for Sunday, May 16. Bill promises to have complete hotel information to us shortly. I found the four with addresses on the web.

"The activities schedule is still in gestation, but will likely include a Saturday night dinner dance on the Spirit of San Francisco and a Napa Valley wine tour on Friday. Bay-to-Breakers registration will be made available to those who want to prove they’re not really 60, and we shall probably conclude with a brunch following the race," Bill said.

Make your plans now. He said it should be relatively simple to extend the reservation on either end, for those who want to make it a full vacation.

Bill Blue writes that he is the General Manager of The Golf Center at Palm Desert, a combination 9 hole golf course and driving range with excellent teaching programs, especially for juniors, and concurrently is co-chairman of the Junior Golf Foundation of the Desert.

"We have developed an innovative junior instruction program where we take equipment and instructors to schools and teach as part of the P.E. program - especially to the huge minority

population in a valley with 90 golf courses. Our targets are ages 7-12. The juniors have a variety of individual instruction programs available to improve their game around the Coachella Valley at golf facilities. It follows the inner city golf program developed while I was Commissioner of the LPGA in the late 80's and has tremendous national potential...It makes those of us involved in junior golf ‘feel good’ about our time invested."

More from the fall minireunion: Denny Denniston is still in banking in New York City. His oldest son Tom is a freshman "and loves it. Tom and I sailed across the Coral Sea in September and then scuba dove on the Great Barrier Reef for several days."

Jim and Carol Baum report: "We’ve sold or closed some of our stores in Illinois so we’re down to just two – both in Morris – a Hallmark Gold Crown Store and Baum’s, a women’s clothing store. It’s time to take life a little easier, to allow more time for traveling, but retirement is not being planned anytime soon>"

Dick Spencer reports he ran into Bob Daley on the way back from the Frost statue. "Bob is still working for Hewlett Packard and would like to retire, but HP won’t let him."

See the minutes of our Dartmouth Night weekend class meeting on the web at October, 98 Class Meeting Minute.

Robert Conn

Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem NC 27157-1015
Rconn@wfubmc.edu

Note:  This column is limited to 500 words at the request of the Alumni Magazine.