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Penny Bamberger Fishman: We are well in Connecticut, mostly staying at home, doing a lot of walking, missing seeing friends and, especially, missing the grandkids. Our town has started to reopen outdoor places including the beach, but with limitations (fewer cars allowed, distancing and masks).

Judy Kaufman: We are fine, feeling lucky to be social isolating in an optimal situation. We live adjacent to a 500 acre nature preserve with wonderful walking paths and have been driving to other large wooded areas with trails. Of course, we miss our kids and grandkids - Zoom & Face Time don’t quite compensate for hugs!

Michael Nolte:Not much change in our situation since March!!!

Larry Reich -- Memories: Arts Quad: I remember going up to Morrill Hall on a wickedly cold night to review human bones before a prelim on Anthropometry taught by young Prof. Kenneth A.R. Kennedy. When I got out, it had snowed several inches. It was so cold, near zero, the snow was so light that I could blow a foot circle of snow away. On another occasion, I was up there studying so late that instead of going back to the dorms, I lay down on a table and put a sandbag under my head and went to sleep. The next morning, Professor Kennedy (he signed his name KARK,) came in and first thought he had a new cadaver to study. I remember the enormous St. Bernard that used to haunt the halls of Goldwyn-Smith (Is it still called GS?) I was at one end of the building, and I could hear his rumbling bark reverberate down the corridor, hit the far wall, and echo again. Fraternity Life: I remember being warned, "don't call fraternities 'Frats,'" because it wasn't cool. I understand the terms have waxed and waned several times since. College Town: The Unmuzzled Ox was a focus of counterculture and folk music under a church in Collegetown. Full of smoke and great hamburgers. University Halls Cafeteria: When I moved into UHalls 1 as a Freshman, I was on the third floor just above the vent for the cafeteria, otherwise known as the "Barf Bar." I remember my father leaving me to return home, and I was looking forward to having hamburgers and fries every day. That lasted maybe a week.

Margery Schiffman: The one bright spot and relief valve during this very trying time period of the last 10 weeks has been my occasional visit to see my horse at her barn Happy Trails here in Danbury CT. In normal times we ride along the 700 acres of trails in Tarrywile Park across the road from our barn. At the start of our period of isolation, we were allowed to spend 1 hour a couple of times a week one person at a time-no riding, so there couldn't be any accidents to divert the attention of our local first Responders. As of the last couple of weeks, we are now allowed 2 hours at the farm with riding, 2 to 3 people at a time. Horses, as well as people, get out of shape and willful with the lack of exercise. And, of course, the chance to graze on the wonderful new Spring grass

Margie Smith: (1) Upper West Side NYC May 13, 2020 -- Pretty much a ghost town during this pandemic! (2) Looking forward to when we can socialize again--lunching with classmates! (3, 4) Or dining and enjoying a beautiful sunset in Montauk.

Reeve Vanneman: Jane ('68) and I have found stay-at-home to to be (ironically?) a time to reconnect with old friends. We have used Zoom to reconnect with Bruce ('66) and Joan ('67) Cohen. Unfortunately, Bruce took the occasion to send me this old photo of lacrosse practice in the Polo Barns where he is clearly about to dodge past me. Probably the only time it ever happened.

Dave Yewell: All is well in Napa Valley, staying in, except for necessities, like making wine. No impact on grape growing.

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