Author: Megan Klein

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Last year the Ski Group got caught with its vocal cords down and received demerits for failure to recite Benny Havens.

To remedy the failure, Bob Michela passed out the words to the song at the beginning of the Aspen ski trip and ordered all to stand tall for a rendition at the Business Meeting.

A spy in the Business Meeting surreptiously captured the results wth a spy camera, lead by Hork and Bobby B and other former members of the Cadet Glee Club.

Was there improvement? Judge for your self by clicking on:

www.west-point.org/class/usma1964/bennyhavens/bennyhavens.html

I,m experimenting with a pretty large file, so if you have a slow connection, don't try to load this file.  If you give it a try, be patient while the program loads, then click on the start button.

All have arrived  home safe and sound, it seems.  Inventory has been taken: two arms, two legs, on solid head per person.  Luggage – don,t ask!

The last night "business meeting" was a big success.  Bob Michela showed his excellent emceeing skills, distrubuting kudos and gongs in abundance. John Otjen had earlier received a fur garment to help him survive lost luggage (I've got it on film, John.  Call with your offer to buy the negatives.)

Throughout the trip, Bob Magruder showed an excellent ability to keep the herd moving in the right direction at the right time.  Everything was clockwork smooth.

Film to follow.  In addition, there are 468 pictures from six different participants posted at the Skiing link in the menu on this page.  Grab whatever you want by right clicking and either printing or copying. 

 For more photos go to www.west-point.org/class/usma1964/pixs/aspen_4/

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Skiing conditions have remained great here in Aspen.  Yesterday, a number of our skiers took on Ajax and came back with some stories of the challenges they encountered. If you ever wondered where old musicians go, we found one here on the slopes at Snowmass.  A former member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was performing at a small resturant mid mountain.  He had been part of the group of musicans who put together the rather famous "Will the Circle be Unbroken" album and, at our request, sang a version of it that combined the Circle story with other songs. He was almost as good as Bob Balderson.

Last night the group went to a local hangout named Su Casa and carried on a ski group tradition that had been started by Steve Perryman.  As the legend goes, on the first trip here to Aspen, the small group of class skiers joined with a few non-grad invitees and  were in the early stages of group development.  You know, that period where individuals are "feeling out" one another and conversation is still rather stiff.   It seems that Steve asked the waiter to "get me a margarita … and one for everyone in the group!"  Thusly the fun began with pool shooting and margaritas, an ice-breaking combination..

Some of the group took snowshoe hikes up in the mountains.  Others ventured out into the local shops and returned shell-shocked.  Those ain't K-Mart prices out there.

We are looking for another glorous day out there on the slopes.  Temperatures will remain in the mid 40's, sorry Chicago and the east coast.  You should have come along on this ski trip and avoided the bad weather!