I recently received a note from Larry Goodman, which prompted me to call him. It seems Larry and his wife were invited for a visit to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington, D.C. They were invited by Chris Browne ’80, who is deputy director. According to Larry, the building is absolutely massive, with every vintage plane imaginable, including the F-14 Tomcat. He describes it as a massive piece of hi-tech and the landing of it on a carrier as a “controlled crash.” While at Dartmouth in the Navy V-12, Larry helped form the Dartmouth Flying Club at Bugby’s Field in White River Junction, Vermont, where he learned to fly on a grass strip.

I also received a note from Hardy Hendren, another Navy V-12 who left early and became a Navy pilot. I sent the article to Liz Sistaire for publication in the newsletter. The Hardy family has many connections at Dartmouth, including sons Will ’75, Rob ’78, and David ’83 and granddaughter Charlotte ’14.

The January/February 2020 issue of DAM had several articles that caught my attention. I have always been an outdoorsperson, playing shinny hockey at a very young age on a local pond when winter was really winter and then skiing and playing a variety of other sports. So, I was impressed reading about Kelly Wood ’14. She grew up in Hanover, loving the mountains, skiing, and nature, and majored in earth science and education at Dartmouth. She now teaches geology, wildlife, and conservation for the National Park Service at elementary schools and in the parks. It warms my heart to read about another outdoorsperson who’s traveling on a great journey.

We are saddened to report the death of Charles K. Barton in Glastonbury, Connecticut, on January 5.

—Joe Hayes, P.O. Box 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; (603) 964-6503; jhayes697@yahoo.com