April 2024

Bill Spragins and Barbara welcomed the total eclipse in Mexico as it moved directly over their condo on an eight-mile stretch of beach south of Mazatlan, with eight other friends from the Denver area. “I would put it right up there with observing a full 360-degree color display of northern lights during finals week at St. Lawrence my sophomore year, 45-plus years ago,” Bill wrote, and observing the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997 from Whistler ski area in BC. The uniqueness of each is such that it sends chills down the spine as you’re watching while thinking that you may never see anything like it again in your lifetime, which I guess is truer every day at this point!”

Back in California, Bill added, “Spencer is knocking it in his sophomore year at UC-Santa Barbara after a paying internship at Sandia Lab in Livermore, California, last summer. Barbara gained ‘primary’ status at the U.S. Patent Office, and … I have all of the work I want right now around the nation as the heavy civil construction markets continue to be busy post-pandemic. We’ve been watching the developments around the Key Bridge with sadness, and one of my clients is part of the team that is cleaning things up.”

reported by John Wharton '76