State of the Union Report - September 2008

The following message was sent to the Hunters group today.

It's been three months since I last issued a status report, so it is a good time to do another one.

'67 had a reunion in Vancouver in July. They now have 56 found classmates.

LH, my contact for '68, sent me a list of 60 found classmates. That's 56% of the 108 graduates, which is even better than '67! My wholehearted congratulations to '68.

AC also sent me a list of 49 found classmates for '70. That's a big leap from the last reported number.

I am happy to report that '72 has grown from 75 to 94 found classmates. In about April, KW and I had set a target to reach 100 found classmates by end of the year. Looks like we will achieve it very soon.

All the above classes have done well. The reason why I reported these classes first is that they have all started to organize themselves before the Alumni Search project was started. Now let's see how the other classes are doing.

I am glad to inform that '69 has found 27 classmates so far. That's a good progress despite a late start. Congratulations to WH.

Not to be outdone by '69, '71 has grown from 20 to 37 found classmates. They have organized two gatherings in July and September. Well done, KO.

'73 must be the superstar of this period. They have grown from 23 to 47 found classmates. Congratulations to CK and MK!

Luck is not with '74. They only added 1 person to reach 20 found classmates. Add oil, both JWs and RL!

I am happy that we have two new Hunters since the last report - AC for '77 and GM for '76. '77 has doubled the found classmates to 28, and '76 has jumped to 22 found classmates. Well done, AC and GM!

The Hunter post for '75 is still outstanding. 10 classmates have been found so far.

So here's a summary of the status:

1967: 56
1968: 60
1969: 27
1970: 49
1971: 37
1972: 94
1973: 47
1974: 20
1975: 10
1976: 22
1977: 28

Cheers,
-mw ('72)

Class of 72 North America Reunion

The Class of 72 had a rave success in the 4-day North American reunion at the end of August, as witnessed by some of the post-event feedback:

"Hence, let us salute the hosts for the effort and energy they had spent that gave us such joyous memories!!!!"

"Even though I might have never talked to some of you back 36 years ago, I had a great time in the reunion."

"Take you and I for example, I cannot recall we did even say Hi to each other in KCC, however, we did not have any STRANGER feelings. I enjoyed your humour, I learnt about your terrible accident at work and was impressed by your character."

"The kind of hospitality extended to us by our hosts in LA is immeasurable and my appreciation is equally 'wordless'."

"I want to add that all the spouses and family members blended in with us right away like other long lost 72ers. Wayne has to endure some language barrier but several of us tried now and then to keep him company and he came back the next day for the reunion dinner. He left me with a memorable very long and warm and hearty hand shake."

"I just received your photo CD for the NA reunion. You are so considerate that I don’t know what to say except thank you from the bottom of my heart."

"You should be glad that at least you showed up on the last day and still got so much fun. Imagine those could not make it at all."