For our Thursday night Early Bird gathering, we skipped “Joe’s Restaurant” for once and had a surprisingly good pay-as-you-go dinner at Oldport Harbor. On Friday, then President Charlie Williams led us to the ‘44 Memorial Corner at the junction of Central Avenue and Campus Road where, in his words, “we had underwritten a major Campus Beautification Project involving some big trees, very attractive shrubbery, and a marble bench inscribed with the words, ‘The Class of 1944 Corner.’”