Forum Flashback: April 1982
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
We begin our summer Forum Flashback series with this article from the April, 1982 edition written by alumnus Jim Levy '82.
Seniors Out to Lunch
by Jim Levy
On Tuesday, April 13th, the Senior class drifted down to the Chicago
Yacht Club, located at Monroe and the lake, to participate in the
annual Senior-Alumni Luncheon. Attendance at the luncheon was near
100%, not only because it was an excused absence from afternoon
classes, but also because most of the Seniors looked forward to getting
dressed up and meeting with some of their future fellow alumni.
By 12:30 p.m., all but a few fashionably-late guests had arrived.
Upstairs, Mr. Eaton tended bar for a while, serving up some mean
Coca-Cola and Seven-Up to the Seniors, while the alumni had real
cocktails, booze and all. With or without the booze, everyone mingled,
cocktail party style, for about a half-hour, looking as they might ten
years from now at an exclusive jet-set cocktail party.
The luncheon was served in a dining room with a breathtaking view of
the harbor. After being seated at random tables of eight, soup and
salad were served, accompanied by speeches from Gerald Grant, President
of the Alumni Club, and Jeri Stone Dry. Mr. Grant, after asking how
many people were fourteen-year vets, asked some trivia questions which
pertained to the class of '82. For example: "What was the name of the
kid in kindergarten who strangled a rabbit?" Jeri Dry spoke next,
reminiscing on how she has kown so many of the Seniors for so long and
how she couldn't believe they were actually graduating.
The lunch of beef and rice, followed by the ice-cream dessert, was soon
over and once most of the table conversations had ceased, everyone
slowly drifted out from the Yacht Club. Everyone had a good time, the
Latin School Alumni Club introduced itself, officially, to the class of
'82, and the Seniors missed half-a-day of classes. The Seniors owe
this pleasant afternoon to Mary Anne McFarlane who organized this
luncheon which has become a genuine Latin School tradition.
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