From: Xu, Yan

E-Mail: xu@athena.anes.pitt.edu

Subject: Good to hear from you all!

 Hello, ALL,
 
 The enthusiastic responses to the earlier emails and
 this post site suggest the necessity of a reunion. 
 My thanks to Lao Wen, Dai Sa, and those who are 
 organizing this event. Gu Yaojun asks in her 
 message how many of us are considering going. 
 Li Xiangdong made a valuable point about classmates 
 in China. May I suggest that we start a 
 pre-registration for the event. Dai SA, if this 
 is not of great distraction to your daily work, 
 could you please set a link for a simplest form 
 for registration, where one can check off “yes”, 
 “no”, or “maybe”. A proper registration procedure 
 will also help those who do not have the vacation 
 time to find an excuse to get off from their work. 
 Maybe we should consider registration with a small 
 fee to offset the expenses for group activities 
 (I assume we don’t just go there to hit the slot 
 machines - just kidding). Do we need to rent a 
 conference room for a day or so, or make a 
 reservation at a fancy restaurant for some exotic 
 drink and food? I am sure everyone has some ideas. 
 Since Lao Wen is organizing this, should we all 
 send him the suggestions and then give him the 
 authority to make the plan? I look forward to 
 seeing you all.
 
 Xu, Yan
 
 (I didn’t see response from Dong QiQi and Yang Zi Sao. 
 Anyone knows where they are? Hou Pei Yu, if you are 
 coming, please prepare a sequel to the following:
 
 “... ...,
 77 di wu (Geophys) dao LIN JIAN qu XIN JUN,
 ... ...,
 yi zhen SU FENG cui lai, ba QIAO SHEN cui duan,
 ... ...,
 zi XU YAN, bu XU SONG,
 ... ...”)