Napa Valley, CA April 2017
posted by Paul Levy - 6/12/2017

Doug and Judy Weil organized a mini-reunion the last week in April in Napa Valley and San Francisco which began with an opening reception buffet dinner at the Silverado Resort where we all stayed. .  Classmates, spouses, and others joining were  Jim  AdlerTed and Barbara BromleyHank and Nancy BruceGeorge Daly and June Ball w’58 , Shelby and Gale DavisLee and Jan DavissonBill  Duncan and Ann JacksonEarl FogelbergJim and Kathleen GilbertDavid and Patricia GrubNewman Thor Halvorson and Shannon Fairbanks, Jim and Jane Haugh, Doug and Ginger LevickBill and Ingrid MarshGeorge and Charlotte McLaughlinEd and Nancy MetcalfRichard and Joan Miller, Al and Nancy MuseJoeand Nancy PapaLew and Mary Reid, Andy and Mary RobellAlan RodgersJohn and Lynn ScottGene Shahan and Diane Frohling, Fred and Jane Sillman, and Steve  and Eugenie Werbel.

We connected particularly with those on opposite coasts we see too seldom, tasting wine (including a $275 cab)  and olive oil at four of the Napa Valley’s 550 wineries and viewing art including that of classmate Frank Stella.  Our classmate Lew Reid arranged for us to visit the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, where he has been on the Board for many years and Chairman for several years.

Buck focuses on biology of the brain believing if we can slow aging, we can reduce the impact of chronic diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and dementia.  We heard a couple of speeches, watched a video, visited two of 28 labs, and looked through microscopes at miniscule worms whose very short lives Buck has already increased 50%.

In San Francisco, we were free to attend the symphony of which San Francisco is justly proud, the recently remodeled Museum of Modern Art with the Fisher Collection including some of Frank Stella’s art, Alcatraz, the number one tourist attraction in San Francisco, family, and other friends.

The last dinner when all together was at an excellent Italian restaurant all to ourselves.  It included speeches, thanks to the organizers, and a loud singing of “Old Nassau”.

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