First in!

[Jack Rose '70]

I'd like to state for the record that I am not a Republican any more.

Jack Rose '70

[d...@donberns.com]

Well, I never was a Republican. So there.

Don Berns '69

[pa...@paulpayton.com]

I never was, either, and regretted the one time I voted for a
Republican for a statewide office. Jack, to your great credit I
remember you as being highly articulate in your positions. What brought
you back from the red side, and when?

Paul

[Jack Rose '70]

> What brought you back from the red side, and when? -- Paul Payton

My ex-wife, who in twenty years of patient teaching finally caused me
to realize that we had a lot less to fear from world communism than
from the crowd that wrap themselves in the bible, the flag and the
fetus and keep trying to find new ways to find out what books we're
reading and what meetings we're attending.

August 8, 1974 had a lot to do with it, too. I was living in Germany at
the time. The TV stations came back on the air at 2 AM to carry Nixon's
resignation speech live. I set my alarm and watched the show. As one of
his true believers and staunchest supporters almost to the very end, I
realized how thoroughly I'd been conned by that contemptible SOB.

There were a few other things. Watching Orrin Hatch destroy Anita Hill.
John Ashcroft trying to gut the First Amendment. Or Trent Lott and the
Fourteenth.

I have to stop now, there goes my blood pressure.

Jack

[b&p]

Jack Rose wrote, re explaining his change away from the Republican party:

> I have to stop now, there goes my blood pressure.

I feel the same way these days. As bad as Nixon was (and I believe he truly
was), Bush scares me even more. Whatever happened to our generation
anyway?!?

I'll stop before I spike my BP. Great to hear from you - hope you can make
it to whatever reunion is coming up.

Paul

[Jim]

My wife, Noel, was '70, so I photographed the graduation. I have one
photograph I really regret not enlarging and trying to get some milage
out of. It is a shot of Jack Rose in aluminum hard had and gown
marching with the other graduates, and immediately behind him is a
poster on a phone pole, which had a large reproduction of the famous
image of the girl looking in agony towards the camera over the body of
a dead guy at Kent State. I reckon I should find that neg. and "print"
with my scanner (haven't used my dark room in several years) and send
it to Fred. Jack, you put on a great show that day.

Jim Brennan

[Jim]

PS- I agree with your and PHDP's current politic. The Bush man is NOT
a conservative as I knew the term.