The Class of 1970 2008-2009 Events

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

Class Dinner, Friday, February 20, 2009
6:00 pm, Nassau Club, Princeton, New Jersey

Class Mini-Reunion, Friday-Sunday,
May 1-3, 2009, Washington, DC


39th Reunion, Princeton University Campus,
May 29-31, 2009

Dear Classmate:

Class Dinner, Friday, February 20, 2009, Princeton, New Jersey

Hope you and your families had a great holiday season and Happy New Year. Please make plans to join your beloved and esteemed Classmates and their (even more beloved and esteemed) spouses and guests at dinner on February 20, 2009 at the Nassau Club in Princeton. We will begin with no-host cocktails at 6:00 pm (no host, that is, unless we can get the lacrosse parents to put us on their tab inadvertently as they did last year). Buffet dinner will follow at 7:00 pm. Our after-dinner speaker this year will be Steve Dawson '70, who served as technology adviser to the Obama Presidential Campaign; Steve will tell us what it was like behind the scenes of such a successful national effort in the primaries and general election. As always, we will also introduce ourselves and our guests during the dinner.

Please also plan to stay in Princeton for the remainder of the weekend. We hope and expect to involve the wonderful Class of 1970 Theater in Whitman College at some point in the festivities.On Saturday, there are programs for alumni in the morning, a luncheon in Jadwin for all alumni with seating by class, a beautiful and moving Memorial Service at 3:00 pm in the University Chapel for all alumni who have passed away during the year and, finally, a basketball game on Saturday evening at which Pete Carill will be honored. You can sign up for the Alumni Weekend events at the University website
http://alumni.princeton.edu/main/goinback/alumni_day/AlumniDay2009Brochure.pdf .

The price for the Friday Class Dinner (which will include wine) is only $75.00 per person (the same as last year and much less than when Jerome was President and the dinner was in New York). You may pay at the door or on the Class website through Paypal. In either case, please rsvp by email response to this message, copying me Paul Haaga; Rand Mirante; and our Class Treaurer Brian Hunter's loyal and hardworking assistant Denise Teti; . We promise better weather than last year.

Mini-Reunion in Washington, DC, May 1-3, 2009

Finally, please be sure to continue to make plans to attend our mini-reunion in Washington DC from May 1 to 3, 2009. Details and response information will follow in a later message. So far, plans include a hosted cocktail buffet on Friday evening at the Haaga condo in the former Columbia Hospital for Women (2425 L Street NW), guided tours of art galleries on Saturday, and a tour, cocktails and rooftop dinner at the beautiful new Newseum in downtown DC on Saturday evening. More to come--all guaranteed to be exciting. To accommodate various arrival times, the Friday cocktail buffet will be lengthy—from 6:00 p.m. until even John Loose is sated. Jack Wilmer and I (read: Genie Wilmer and Heather “QB” Haaga) will be organizing the weekend. The program will conclude with dinner on Saturday evening but, as always, there will be informal opportunities to continue in smaller groups for those who can remain through Sunday.

--39th Reunion with the Class of 1969 - Free Registration!-- Thursday-Sunday May 28-31, 2009 Princeton Campus

Please mark the date and plan to join us. This is our last off-year before our 40th and promises to be an excellent run-up to 2010. Remember that it is only every fifth year that we get to be hosted by the bizarre, quirky, two-time-Cane-Spree-losing Class of 1969—“Peace Love and Rock and Roll” was the theme of their last major reunion and they have already asked us to release our rights to “Hookah, Dookah, Doo” for this one. By the way, Bruce Millman, our Reunion Chair for Life, has already booked the Party Dolls for our 40th (May 27-30, 2010, which is Memorial Day weekend) so be sure to get that on your 2010 calendar and volunteer to help Bruce with both the 39th and the 40th BMillman@pipeline.com; .

Due to new rules governing off-year reunions that started in 2008, there is NO REGISTRATION FEE to attend our 39th reunion: wristband, beer, music -- all free! Just show up and sign up1 So now there are more reasons than ever to come back to Nassau Hall. Please do!

The only way to register is to show up in person. Under the new rules,we can't charge our class to register for an off year reunion, but onthe other hand, the major reunion can't collect any fees from the off-year classes. The registrars at the major reunion sites have class lists, provided by the Alumni Association, for each of the minor reunion classes. And registration is accomplished by showing a picture i.d. and vouching for your guests. If we can find our"registration book" we'll have it there to sign in, but that's more tradition than a registration device. Classmates can show up at the site and receive a badge, schedules, etc.

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, support Princeton through Annual Giving. We break records for our major reunions, but we also need to support Princeton in the off years, especially the years leading up to the majors. Our class goal for this year is $350,000; please respond as you always have when you hear from John Loose (and volunteer to help him if you can—John Loose; ). 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/ . If you are a Tigernet member, you can log in on the left side and it will pull up your information, or you can proceed on the left side

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

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I hope to see all of you and your spouses on February 20-21, May 1-3 and May 29-31. Best regards until then.

Sincerely,

Paul G. Haaga, Jr.