This is being written in October, and Sally and I are fortunate enough to enjoy the beautiful fall foliage right outside our windows. Our apple tree has dropped enough apples to keep deer coming back every evening. Tourism during the leaf season is huge here, and if you happen to visit the small village of Bar Harbor, Maine, expect to see up to 60 cruise ships, of all sizes, even from Europe!

On occasion I receive notes from other classes that they read of the death of one of our class members. In this case, it came from Mike Mosher ’77, who commented on Jim Rudolph, whose name was published in the deaths list last month. Mike is a professor of art and communication at Saginaw Valley State University, but upon his graduation from Dartmouth he went to work for Jim in the two bookstores he owned. Jim was a devoted art dealer as well, and his teachings have helped Mike ever since. Mike says it for all of us: “Raise a glass of good wine to a continental man in a brown leather trench coat against the Michigan chill with a wry sense of humor.” And I surely will. Thanks, Mike

I look forward to stories from class members, or anybody, and as they say in the newspaper trade, are fit to print.

I received an email from Larry Goodman commenting on his letter that was published in the November-December DAM. Once you get the flying bug, it’s all over. Just ask Hardy Hendren.

We are saddened to report the deaths of Charles N. Howard on December 14, 2010, in Indianapolis, Indiana; Roscoe L. Radcliffe on October 10, 2011, in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Kenneth E. Brown on March 20, 2012, in Framingham, Massachusetts; Lloyd A. Smith on June 18, 2019, of Monrovia, Maryland; Edwin T. Wood on August 24, 2019; Leon M. Fiske on August 31, 2019, in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; jhayes697@yahoo.com