I just received the class news in the mail. Williams has such extensive class news that they decided to separate it from the typical alumni magazine, so it's a freestanding publication on its own.

But I never noticed how the book begins - I usually just glanced at the earliest class year out of curiousity and skipped to the end of the book (classes are listed chronologically, starting with the class of 1932, though alumni from as early as 1929 are apparently still around). Each of these early classes have pretty much the same news:

"The good news is that seven of us are still up and running. Keep running!"

"my first job is to apologize to Herb Gutterson. He noticed his name was missing from my last list of those who are still with us..."

"Sadly, my notes this issue all concern obituaries."

I mean, yeah, that's what you expect to see from class notes at age 98... but it is a bit morbid.

This is a piece I wrote for a choreographer friend. It was intended to match with the Philip Glass works on the program.

Enjoy.

Looking Through the Glass.

(comments welcome!)