The beautiful Acapulco Princess resort hotel, set off a ways from the town proper.

Beautiful private beach, and George body surfed to his delight.

The Mayo Alumni meeting was at the Acapulco Princess Resort, and we had a difficult time deciding which medical meetings to go to because there were so many interesting ones going on at the same time! Teresa stayed for most of the Ophthalmic presentations, being interested in the LASIK discussions, while George visited the Physical Medicine meets, which had many topics regarding holistic healing. Both attended many other meetings, including Surgeon on Safari in Africa by Pavel!

I only saw one person smoking the entire time at the medical meetings or at the fancy hotel. Is there some co-relation between high IQs and non-smokers???

During time off meetings, we swam and body surfed in the ocean, built a Mayan sand pyramid, observed the lovely bikini-clad women, swam in several of the six pools, ate and drank like starving dehydrated pirates at the receptions, and saw the cliff divers. We were busy the whole time, had fun, and would do it again in a minute.

Pirate George ready to do "plastic surgery" with his surgical instrument.

Nurse Teresa had extra bones if we came up short somewhere...

The Hill School Reunion, GBM's 60th, was fun. His fellow classmates are all interesting, active, dynamic, and clever, and their wives are a super great group of women! We stayed in the Markle dorm, built in 1967 in honor of Alvan Markle, George's grandfather, who also attended Hill School. We met many interesting academians and their wives, such as Professor Bell who teaches Latin, Greek and French , and Alex Washington who teaches art and drama. The reunion was more leisurely paced than others have been. Teresa DID get to dance almost as much as she likes to...

Tree did NOT like new potatoes with EVERY meal, nor the 7/16th inch thick scapple (maybe she could handle 1/16th inch with plenty of apple butter...).

We had a chance to tour the campus, and found the alumni bookshelves where George's books are, as well as the Foxfire series. We toured the halls of the science building, and George showed where he made smoke and stink bombs, which he'd set off anonomously now and then way back when.

We attended the Alumni Memorial Chapel Service, where George sang in the choir. It was touching when the bell tolled in honor of the deceased classmates of each half-decade class.

Unfortunately, George had just recovered from complications from a unknown heart attack. We were staying with his sister Marian in the Poconos, and he finally agreed to let us take him to the emergency room. He was stabilized and taken to Geisinger Memorial Hospital, where he did his medical residency so many years ago. That is also the place where he met his beloved first wife, Mildred Donna Umstead! With deep regrets we found out he had a metatastic case of lung cancer, and died October 1st of that year.

Those of his class who attended are ex-New Mexican rancher Jake Chappell, who is much fun, and taught Tree how to get the most out of her shrimp;
Jack and Margaret Davis;
Al and Ginny Dumas (wonder how big and blue her granddaughter's eyes are now...);
and Bob and his beautiful wife the opera singer Marge Finlay.
Ned Grubb came with his wife Diane, who has a dog named Mindy, honey-mooners' eyes after eight years of marriage!
Ned's sister Peg attended with fellow classmate "Muzz" Molina.
Dick Keller, and Corny Knox and his lovely wife Nancy Knox helped make it more fun.
Dave Uihlein still continued on the tradition of being football captain and group leader with his energy, super smile, delightful wife,
and his pockets stuffed with cans of the great local beer!

Jack Markle, George's cousin, led the 50th alumni event, and is a Trustee. He picked up award after award after award for his contributions to Hill School, and for his alumni gathering. His beautiful wife Kathy attended as well. The Hill School even named the special board room off the Headmaster's office in Jack Markle's honor!