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While listening to the Pulitzer Prize-winning piece “Tempest Fantasy,” by Paul Moravec ’79, at last year’s reunion, Wiprud says he wondered how he could participate musically to his own reunion. After getting in touch with the reunion committee, he was asked to compose the music for the class’s memorial service...
...That really appealed to me because the memorial service is really a tremendous part of the reunion,” Wiprud says. “It’s about the only time of sober reflection, and it’s a chance to try to do something musically that isn’t only light...
Wiprud says his involvement with the memorial program makes this reunion even more special...
...fact, its destructive power will be levelled primarily at us and our society. For instance, with the increase in winter temperatures throughout North America, tropical diseases will spread northwards from the equator. The Pew Center for Climate Change estimates that, by the time we return for our 50th reunion, dengue hemorrhagic fever, a disease for which there is no known vaccine, will have begun entrenching itself in Texas and surrounding states. Malaria and untold mosquito-born pathogens will appear shortly afterwards...
Duehay, who also serves on his permanent class committee as a representative from Adams House, said he saw the upcoming 50th reunion as a way to initiate a special campaign for PBHA. The campaign has surpassed its stated goal of $1.5 million, with three weeks left in the drive...