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Len Stolba sends in this update: 

“We are both happily ensconced on our 1.6 acres in Fair Oaks, California, with our daughter’s horse. She is an equine veterinarian who lives up the lane and looks after us as we do her horse.

“I am long retired from 30-some years with an international engineering firm, plus some
teaching and consulting with the BArch and MS building construction [programs at] MIT—[degrees I] obtained after Wes U and four years in the USMC as a helicopter pilot. I also continued as a pilot and squadron commander in the reserves until retirement.

“After my retirement, as my wife, Soheir, continued to teach anthropology, consult internationally, and monitor our combined family—two sons, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild—I was able to travel to multiple countries. I now putter around our properties and follow my interests.

“To think all this was enabled by a local-boy scholarship from Wes U to a not-very-good
football guard, whose father was the campus mailman, attests to the value of luck in life and seizing opportunities and never giving up.

“Cheers to all.—Len”

Bud Johnson says that he at 93 and his wife, Lynn, at 91, “are dealing with a range of medical challenges. Rarely answers or solutions; mainly explanations!” Bud says they keep “optimistic and appreciative by eight grandkids, with their engagements and weddings.”

John Binswanger writes, “All is good. We are traveling to California to see two new great-grandchildren next week and will be in Florida for 10 days in March. Still playing a little golf (badly), but it is fun, so why stop? Gay keeps me in good shape.”

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