Current List of Attendees - as of May 8th

Cate Class of 1968 40th Reunion

Attending (25 classmates and 9 spouses/partners):

Duncan Agnew and Kathy
Chris Blake
Don Davis and Wendy
Billy Steinberg
Albert Elzas
Fred Fisher
Courtney Price
Carroll Joynes
Doug Dyer
Phil Irwin
Earl Maize and Rosina
John Newnam
Michael Ladner and Laurie – Saturday only
David Chan – only able to attend Friday’s events
Stuart Anderson and Kim
Steve Gordon and Kathy
Dick Wheeler
Fred Bradley – Saturday and Sunday
Bob Marx
Geoff O'Gara and Berthenia Crocker
Hal Burroughs
Bill Noble and spouse
Simon Gaskell – Friday and Saturday
Scott Anderson and Dianne
Matt Walton
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Faculty/Staff:
Janet Davis
Betty Woodworth
Gaby and Selden Edwards
Sandy Smith
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Not able to attend:
George Souza- teaching in China
Bill Hammonds - wedding in Washington DC
John Coghlan- AIDS/HIV benefit bike ride from SF to LA in honor of Clark Henley and a friend
Neil Tennant
Jim Henry
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Haven't heard from:
Bruce Whitcher
Chuck Lyde
George Kuhrts
Fred Hyde
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No Contact Information:
John Hauk
Ken Hurd
Loring Edwards
Ernie Villasenor
Mark Davis

Geof's 1968 Writing & Perspective

Simon Gaskell- "Greetings from a Poor Correspondent"

Dear Phil,

I owe you multiple apologies for failing to respond sooner to your e-mails concerning the Class Reunion. I’ve been trying to work out whether it is feasible to attend – and it may well be so. It would be great to catch up. I am due to be in Denver for a conference that week, but if I skip the end of the conference I could be in Santa Barbara on the Thursday. It’s going to be difficult to miss commitments already made for the following Monday so I may have to take an overnight flight back to the UK on Saturday night, therefore missing (without too much reluctance!) the softball game and (with great reluctance) the dinner at Don’s place on Saturday and breakfast at Billy’s place on Sunday. I’ll confirm all this once I’ve checked schedules.

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Second Email- in response to pdi’s encouragement that Simon stay longer if possible….

Dear Phil,

By all means add my e-mail to the blog. I’ll see what I can do to escape commitments!

Best wishes, Simon
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As you will see from my address below, I keep myself occupied as a VP at the University of Manchester. My wife (a child psychologist) and I have two “kids” – a daughter (29) who is a lawyer and a son (27) who is an architect, both living in London – so the dinner table conversation is varied on the, increasingly rare, occasions when the family is together.
I’ve enjoyed your e-mails and the accompanying photographs and I look forward to re-establishing old friendships. I’ll be in touch to confirm.

Best wishes,

Simon


Professor Simon J Gaskell
Vice President (Research)
Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry
University of Manchester
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre
G.021 John Garside Building
131 Princess Street
Manchester M1 7DN

PA: Vicki Edwards
victoria.edwards@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 306 4532

Professor Simon Gaskell

Professor Simon J. Gaskell
Professor Simon J. Gaskell
Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry
Email: simon.gaskell@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: (011) 44 161 306 4532
Fax: (011) 44 161 306 4421

Biography
BSc,PhD, Bristol; MRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Glasgow; Principal Research Officer, Tenovus Institute for Cancer Research, University of Wales College of Medicine; Professor of Experimental Medicine and Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (USA).
Research interests
The research interests of my group, in the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry, involve the development and application of state-of-the-art mass spectrometry, with particular reference to applications in the biomedical sciences. In recent years, a major effort has been devoted to proteomics, an area of “post-genome science” that has been enabled by the international efforts to sequence the genomes of many organisms, including man. Proteomics involves the qualitative and quantitative determination of the protein compositions of cells, with attention to the characterisation of the protein/protein complexes that are the real biochemical machinery. The Michael Barber Centre hosts, in collaboration with the Department of Biomolecular Sciences, the Leukaemia Research Fund National Proteomics Facility. The strongly interdisciplinary nature of our research is further emphasised by our participation in the Consortium for Post-Genome Science, a heavily funded programme involving UMIST, the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, and the Daresbury Laboratory. Within the Consortium, we lead the Third-Generation Proteomics project which is funding the purchase of a 9.4 tesla Fourier-transform ion cylotron resonance mass spectrometer.
The chemist’s contribution to research such as this must be based on a clear understanding of the instrumentation used for mass spectrometry and of the gas-phase ion chemistry that is integral to this suite of analytical techniques. Thus, for example, we are concerned with aspects of instrument development (such as the exploitation of surface-induced decomposition in tandem mass spectrometry). In addition, much effort is directed towards studies of peptide ion fragmentation and this has enabled us to propose general mechanisms of charge-directed ion cleavages.
Based on such fundamental understanding of our analytical chemical techniques, we are able to contribute to the elucidation of problems of fundamental biological and clinical importance. Working with colleagues at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, for example, we have shown for the first time that the oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) from human blood may result in the formation of lipid-protein conjugates that may influence the uptake of LDL by the arterial wall. In collaboration with researchers from the University of Houston and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, we have studied the inhibition of a critical functional protein from Escherichia coli by synthetic antibiotics.
Recent publications
Meneses-Lorente G, Watt A, Salim K, Gaskell SJ, Muniappa N, Lawrence J, Guest PC. Identification of Early Proteomic Markers for Hepatic Steatosis. Chem Res Toxicol. 2006; 19: 986-998.
Broadhead R, Dawe HR, Farr H, Griffiths S, Hart SR, Portman N, Shaw MK, Ginger ML, Gaskell SJ, McKean PG, Gull K. Flagellar motility is required for the viability of the bloodstream trypanosome. Nature. 2006; 440: 224-7.
Beynon RJ, Doherty MK, Pratt JM, Gaskell SJ. Multiplexed absolute quantification in proteomics using artificial QCAT proteins of concatenated signature peptides. Nat Methods. 2005 2:587-9.
Konn DO, Murrell J, Despeyroux D, Gaskell SJ. Comparison of the effects of ionization mechanism, analyte concentration, and ion "cool-times" on the internal energies of peptide ions produced by electrospray and atmospheric pressure matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2005 16:743-51.
Doherty MK, Whitehead C, McCormack H, Gaskell SJ, Beynon RJ. Proteome dynamics in complex organisms: using stable isotopes to monitor individual protein turnover rates.Proteomics. 2005 Feb;5(2):522-33.

Compliments of Matt Walton

Note: Martin Luther King was Killed April 4, 1968. This article is a reflection of what happened in Washington DC the next day.......


washingtonpost.com
Embers From the Fires of '68
Washington at 2:30 p.m. on April 5, 1968. The Washington Monument is visible in the distance.


By Roger Wilkins

Thursday, April 3, 2008;

Late in the evening of April 5, 1968, the sky over Washington was empty except for our Air Force jet tearing north. On board was the delegation that President Lyndon Johnson had sent to Memphis before dawn that day to convey his condolences and those of the nation to Coretta Scott King and her family as they arrived to take the body of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. home to Georgia. Led by Attorney General Ramsey Clark, our group included Equal Opportunity Employment Commission Chairman Clifford Alexander, associate FBI director Cartha DeLoach and Justice Department public information chief Cliff Sessions.
There were no other planes in the sky because the Federal Aviation Administration had closed Washington's airports to commercial traffic after riots and fires had broken out in several cities. Considering the blows our country had just absorbed, the absence of regular air traffic was unremarkable, but I realized as I looked out the window that I was staring at something odd -- a dim orange glow that seemed to have a needle threading it. It brightened as we flew closer, and suddenly I realized that the "ball" was actually the glow of many fires and that the needle was the Washington Monument.
At the time, I was director of the Justice Department's Community Relations Service. Since the summer of 1965 in Los Angeles through the summer of 1967 in Detroit, I had seen violence, destruction and death that I tried to understand and to explain to people who were not black and poor and were not consigned by poverty to the worst living conditions in America. But this was different: It had been my friend Martin lying dead in Memphis, and now it was the home town of my adulthood that was burning.
That day, Mrs. King had been composed and strong -- regal, really -- in her graciousness. Others in the family party had a harder time containing their grief. We met with the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. King's best friend and colleague, and other leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Two things were obvious during our visit: These people were suffering mind-numbing grief. But they had no thought of abandoning the Poor People's Campaign they had been planning to bring to the nation's capital that summer.
As the administration official designated to interact with the campaign, I had had several conversations with Martin as he altered and expanded his conception. This was a pivot from his just-ended Chicago campaign, which had become, like Napoleon's armies in the snow of a Russian winter, mired in Northern racial callousness, the ham-fisted racism of the first Mayor Daley and the general inertia of a massive urban bureaucracy. Martin decided to dig more deeply into American culture and to seek a more encompassing justice than the civil rights movement would have been able to achieve. The new campaign was to bring the widest array possible of America's poor to Washington. Young and old; red, brown, white and black, they would come to the Mall to claim the parts of the American dream that had been denied them only because they were poor.
As we neared the heart of the city, we could distinguish the long streaks of fire, especially along 14th Street NW and H Street NE. Someone near me remarked, "Looks like Dresden." As the plane wheeled and headed back toward Andrews Air Force Base, I looked down at Anacostia, the city's poorest quadrant -- where I saw no fires.
In Chicago I had once watched Martin teach nonviolence to a group of gang members in his small living room in the ghetto. The kids (frightful young thugs to most people) were infuriated because the governor had sent the Illinois National Guard into their turf to stop a riot. Martin preached until they promised to return the next day to join in one of his ghetto-uplift projects. He probably saved several lives in that post-midnight meeting. There were no journalists there -- just John Doar, the legendary assistant attorney general for civil rights, and me. Afterward, Martin invited us to join him and Coretta for coffee. We talked about the relentless, corrosive effects of poverty as the sun rose over the ghetto.
When I got home the night of April 5, 1968, I looked out my front window and was stunned, and a bit annoyed, to see National Guardsmen in the shopping center across the street in Washington's "New Southwest." In 1968, Washington was moving toward democracy in the small steps permitted by the White House and Congress. Its instruments of governance were frail and young. The poverty in far Northeast and Anacostia should have been the shame of the nation.
Today, we have a much more seasoned government: a hearty democracy and a sense of professionalism (jolted by scandal from time to time) that is a far cry from the arrangement being put into place in 1968. We have a young, energetic mayor who is not afraid to take risks. The members of the D.C. Council appear to be able and effective politicians. And in my neighborhood there is a sparkling new baseball stadium where a promising young ballclub plays.
But Anacostia, just across the river from the stadium, and far Northeast still shame the nation, as do many of our public schools. The size of the city's homeless population is heartbreaking. The level of criminal activity among our young people is appalling. Martin's death sapped the energy and the will of so many of us in the movement that the Poor People's Campaign was barely a shadow of the effort forming in his mind. Our city still feels the loss. The interracial coalition that might have been born in the summer of '68 is still some distance off. And the people in the Anacostias of this nation are still poor; some have now seen two or three generations of their families mutilated by the brutal poverty that we thought we might begin to overcome. They miss Martin very much, as do all of us whose lives and spirits he touched so profoundly.
The writer, a history professor at George Mason University, was director of the Justice Department's Community Relations Service from January 1966 to January 1969.

'67/'68 in Lyrical Context....from Hal Burroughs

Hey Guys,

Greetings to all. Many thanks to Phil for doing all the communicating and for setting up this blog for us. I also thought Dick's pictures were outstanding and memorable, except that he apparently didn't get to be in any of them. We can fix that this time, of course. Anyway, I can see that the occasion of a reunion leads many of us to apply a little recall to what life was really like two thirds into the twentieth century. I don't know about you, but when I think of high school, it wasn't quite totally about Martin and Bobby. So I thought I would share some of these super 8 clips that I took on my travels with Albert Elzas' wind-up Bell and Howell ( just kidding, Al - no corrections necessary!):



http://youtube.com/watch?v=FPtsMlY6Oz8



http://youtube.com/watch?v=tah0OnS3nBU



http://youtube.com/watch?v=CjOQ9r35uiU





They still remind me so much of that time too, and of course two of these guys weren't around much past our graduation either.



Hal

Great 25th Reunion Pictures Compliments of Dick Wheeler

From Dick Wheeler:

I put up a set of images I took at our 25th way back in 1993...

Maybe put the link up on the blog, and I’m sending a few as small jpegs for inclusion somewhere, if you think that will work

See them at: http://www.richardwheelerphotography.com/cate1993/

I shot these that evening at Scott Mcleod’s home on the mesa, where there were 20 or so of us gathered. I think I got everyone in these shots somewhere, plus children, wives, both Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Betty Woodworth, and Scott McLeod himself. 15 years ago - ah weren’t we young then... I had intended to print these out and make up a small poster that will one day match up with some shots I had dreamed of making in June of 2018 – kind a like bookends with the “25th” on the left and the “50th” (God willing..) on the right. I didn’t get to far on the first leg of the project, other priorities being what they are, but I kept the negatives close by in case I “could get to it”. Anyway, perhaps I’ll still make the poster, but for now, here’s what we looked like in our early 40’s. Looking forward to seeing everyone in June, and to another cruise to victory on the softball diamond.

Dick

Registration for Our Reunion

Camp Cate - 40th Reunion Registration link (you will need to paste this):

http://www.catealumni.org/events/event_details.asp?id=10715

Cate registration is up and running! Please register as soon as possible to secure your early-bird discount.

John C's Ride in Honor of Clark Henley and Tom Gardner

3 Mar 2008
To the Great Cate of '68!

I decided a number of months ago to challenge myself physically while at the same time honoring two of my very best friends in life who died from AIDS—our classmate Clark Henley and a mutual friend of his and mine, Tom Gardner. I have a silly photograph of my kindergarten class, and Clark and Tom and I are all there.

I think back to the time you and Clark and I shared at Cate. Both in Lido and High House West, Clark and I had adjacent rooms, and our heads were up against those paper-thin walls. We talked every night when I wasn't out in the hall doing exercises under John Jordan's tutelage or racing out to the third field to get a leaf from some plant and beat my co-conspirator back. A few of you from the freshman year would even remember "Fish's Funeral," with a lengthy procession/cortege with Clark carrying his dead goldfish on a pillow as we marched out to the burial grounds. Michael Ladner presided, I believe.

I remember when Clark decided to run away from Cate. We all got very excited, and raised a few hundred dollars to finance him within a few minutes. I walked with him down to 101. I remember him standing on the on-ramp there at Casitas Pass Road, his thumb out to flag a ride. I watched until he got into a car, headed for LA.

Clark and I remained very close through his time at Athenian School, where they had a whole lot more fun with their teachers late at night than we did! Then Boston University, and when I moved back to SF after my first job out of school, we were thick as thieves going to midnight shows at the Nickelodeon. He was writing and illustrating children's books, or telling me about his outrageous sartorial choices for parties (and his choice of parties!). We talked about his day-long walks around the city of San Francisco—I mean every day, from Noon until about 9pm, when the real fun started. Clark was somewhere between legendary and notorious in this city.

When he got sick, things were alternately very tough or in virtual remission. I tried to be a great friend to him during these very difficult times, and we actually became even closer.

I miss him! I'm grateful for what was, and yet I think of what might yet have been, and what Clark could have added to the world.

So my ride is to honor Clark and my other friend Tom, and to support the SF AIDS Foundation. I hope you'll click on the link to my website and pledge—honoring Clark or Tom (you can use a credit card). Thanks very much!

Here's my home page; click on it or you may need to copy it up into your browser

www.aidslifecycle.org/2169

If you would rather write a check, this other link takes you to the form. Please make sure you put down my participant number, #2169. Thanks!

www.aidslifecycle.org/donate/index.cfm?addl=y&CFID=1476548&CFTOKEN=74055732

I hope you'll raise a glass to Clark at the reunion!

All the best,

John

Courtney's Reflection on Miss J

Ah, the beautiful Miss J. I remember a quite candid conversation with her on the procedure for applying Calamine lotion to one's genitals!