Other matters to note: 

First, please pay your class dues as soon as possible. Basic dues are $50.00 per year and support the Alumni Council, the class mailings and our PAW subscriptions. This year we have decided to follow the successful lead of some other classes and start a two-tier dues structure: if you are in a position to pay $200 in annual dues, you can join the Big Bug Club and honor our youngest classmate while helping support some of our additional class functions like pre-game lunches, mini-reunions, etc. You can mail a check to Brian Hunter, Managing Director, Strategic Capital Allocation Group LLC, 800 Boylston Street, 24th Floor, Boston, MA 02199. Alternatively, you can visit our class website which provides a convenient way to pay online even if you are not a PayPal subscriber. 

Second, please support Princeton through Annual Giving. Annual Giving provides essential, unrestricted dollars for the very things that equate a Princeton education with excellence:  needs-blind admissions, the program of independent studies, small classes, seminars and the precepetorial system, and an extraordinarily distinguished faculty dedicated to undergraduate teaching.  The naysayers had doubts about our Class, our love of Princeton, and our cohesion.  But our achievements, and perhaps most visibly our Annual Giving successes, have proven them wrong.  we have broken dollar records in six of our seven major reunion years. And we have done so with extraordinary participation.  Since graduation, 95% of us have made at least one gift to Princeton.  Please, make this a year in which you give.  Help us to sustain the leadership which has made us indispensable to Princeton's Annual Giving efforts.   As you know, the Aspire Campaign is now in full swing and our gifts to AG will do triple duty, counting for our Class AG totals, counting toward the Aspire Campaign and, most importantly, doing our part to ensure continuing excellence at Princeton. You can contribute on-line at >https://makeagift.princeton.edu/, or you can proceed above, either directly or through the Reunion portal.

Third, let me again remind you of our Class Community Service Project ably led by Ralph Binder, which supports Princeton students serving as summer interns at various nonprofits. It began in the Princeton/New York City area, but has been expanded very successfully to include other cities, including Los Angeles this past summer. We can contribute in three ways—funding, connecting interns with our non-profits, and serving as mentors to the interns during their summer program. I combined all three for two Princeton students last summer at a couple of non-profits in Los Angeles and found it to be one of the most rewarding community service activities of my life. It is very flexible, not at all consuming, and most appreciated by the non-profits and the students. Please check the class website for details and contact Ralph at ralbin@optonline.net; . 

Finally, stay in touch and send information for Class Notes in the Alumni Weekly to our hardworking scribe John MacColl jamaccoll@comcast.net; and visit webmaster Pete Langer's informative and up-to-date entries on this, our class website at http://www.princeton1970.org/. 

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I hope to see all of you and your spouses on February 19-20, February 27, and  May 27-30. Best regards until then. 

Sincerely, 

Paul G. Haaga, Jr. 
President