European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday june 19.1987 of Lions the Good and bad of reunions Brand Rooney to return or not to return that is the question when it comes to class reunions. This was a reunion year for my College and High school classes and i attended both. It was alternately great terrible exhilarating de pressing fun and Boring. If As Thomas Wolfe wrote you cant go Home again it is equally Rue hat you can t go Back to school  at a reunion we re All looking for something that u As gone As yesterday. I was surprised though at How quickly old relation ship Bolh Good and bad were re established. The class mates 1 had t liked much in school almost instantly irritated me again and i could see they Felt the same hostility toward me. The Yean had t dissipated whatever it was incur personal lies that rubbed the other the wrong Way. The Good part was that when i met people who had been my friends in school the warmth of our friendships was instantly re Eslait thed. It was Sweet pleasure to be reminded of Why i liked them so much. You Don l talk to anyone for Long at a reunion. You envision spending hours reliving old limes but you Don t there is almost no Lime to listen to anyone s life Story or to Tell your own. I talked to Walt. We Sal next to each other in Chapel because his last name began with r and had been friends but not close Friend. He was t in my group i guess you d say. I never did much Here he said. "1 certainly did t distinguish  it had never occurred to me that he had thought that about himself when he was in school. What Are you doing now 1 asked. I m a heart surgeon in los Angeles he said. It was one of the depressing moments. I realized How cruel and exclusive a Small group of us had been. We thought of ourselves As the leaders and he doers and As much As half he class was shut out simply because of some quirk of personality that made them less acceptable to other kids when they were Young what business did we have shutting out of our group a 15-year-old boy with the ability inside him to become a heart surgeon e tribute Midi so Tam there la never be another Fawn Byar Buchwald when Fawn Hall testified to the congressional in Gale committee there were sighs of envy in offices All Over America. They had nothing to do with her looks but rather with How she performed As Ollie North s Secretary. No one bad Ever seen a Secretary who behaved like Hall and they Nury never see one gain. Faithful skilled and discreet beyond imagination. Hail is the yardstick by which an future secretaries will be measured As might be a peeled the National Security Council is having s difficult time finding a replacement for her. Miss Peters if 1 asked you to shred top secret documents would you do in "1 would if i had time but i still Haven l finished the a s on your  forget the Rolodex. I would like you to alter Sev eral pages of the most confidential material i have in my  i d like to but it would be wrong because i have a Date with my Boyfriend at 5 o clock. Cant the alter ing Wail Over the weekend this is hush hush stuff miss Peters. If anyone finds out whal we re doing we could gel 20 years or congressional immunity whichever comes  that in l Worth per Juring myself  How Loyal Are you. Miss Peters i m Loyal to a Point but this Job is. Nothing to write Home  suppose i asked you to smuggle out some very important documents under your dress. Would you do it for me sure if you re looking for a sexual harassment Uil please miss Peters 1 picked you for this Job be cause you had the makings of a first class shredder and paragraph altered. We May have to move against the Fri at any time. Are you willing to go hat far yes because i respect you and everything you stand for except for one thing. You might Lake the first amendment and leave me holding the  this country s Security is at stake so Start  what do you want me to delete everything in pile a. Then i want you to shred everything in pile b. After that out pile c in you boots and Trot out of the building. Why should do that because that s what Fawn would do if she were Here right  boy All you hear around Here is what Fawn would  i m sorry i blew my stack miss Peters. Here is 160 Worth of traveler s checks. Shred them and Sprinkle them Over Bloomingdale of. Is Here anything else you want me to do before i Start hitting the word processor be careful. Miss Peters. The things you Lypp on that processor could Start world War Iii 4"Why did t you say so what keys should t i use it is not your Job to ask. Fawn never questioned what went into her computer and what came out. 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