SoCa 2008 - 06/06/2008

Dave Hall, Rich Pugh, Steven O’Neill, Colleen Sullivan Bartlett and Ted Winterer met in the lounge at Casa del Mar on the beach in Santa Monica for libations and conversation. Colleen soon complained about the rigors of parenting a 3-year-old at our advanced age. When Dave Hall revealed he was the father of 4-year-old twins and Ted Winterer divulged he had a 21-month-old son at home (youngest child of our classmates perhaps?), Colleen quit bellyaching. Steven O’Neill, on the other hand, is paying tuition at Swarthmore for his eldest child Blaine and has every reason to gripe. Rich Pugh is enjoying his golden years as his oldest child Molly can now act as his designated driver. Colleen won the door prize, as she was the first female classmate to attend one of our soirees (4 guys and 1 gal felt a lot like freshman year). She also drove the farthest to attend, from her relatively new home in Claremont, an hour east of Santa Monica. As the evening of revelry closed, we decided next year to convene on the slopes of Mt. Baldy in the nearby San Gabriel Mts. for a day of skiing. Seems healthier than cocktails for a bunch of old fogies. But if anyone suffers ligament damage in 2009, it will be back to cocktails in 2010.

L to R: Dave Hall, Rich Pugh, Steven O’Neill, Colleen Sullivan Bartlett (Ted Winterer not in photo, since he was the photographer, and as he put it, is “not faster than speed of light anymore at age 51—but if it had been a sound recording I’d be on it”)