Open Letter: Reflections From the Class of ’61

To: Ms. Sandra Fellman Hugo, Minnesota Dear Sandi: Thank you for organizing our 65th reunion of the Alexander Ramsey High School class of 1961. We were an economically diverse public high school. There were lots of middle-class kids coming from families living in GI-loan houses (like me). The daughter of a Nobel Prize-winning chemist attended. Loni Anderson (WKRP in Cincinnati and movies) was at our school and graduated two years later. We might have been some of the last of the Silent Generation, but we represented the American ascendant middle class. A published novelist taught us literature, and a former 3M engineer taught us chemistry. Many of the faculty had served in the military, including under the UN flag (Korean War). But importantly, none of the faculty were easy on us, and all expected high levels of accomplishment. In the main, we delivered. Our class filled out a questionnaire for the reunion. Here are some of the results: 1. Most important lesson you learned? Of the 29