Deke Jackson (Florida) saw Deke Jackson (San Francisco) mentioned in a recent column and wanted equal space. He lives in Mount Dora, where he moved after a 40-year banking career, spent mostly in Chicago. Deke has frequent email exchanges with our faithful class agent Paul Bjorkland in Ashburn, Virginia, and Rocket Reed in Boerne, Texas, where he operates a horse farm.

Bob Schmitz phoned from Cincinnati, having been out of touch since our 55th reunion. He worked as an accountant for several companies, including part-time for a funeral home. (Note: He knew where all the bodies were buried.) Bob played in the Barbary Coast Band at Dartmouth and then in Cincinnati until he “hung up his clarinet” two years ago.

Paul Woodberry called from Sea Island, Georgia, where he plans to live all year round after selling his home in Dallas. He extolled Dartmouth’s extraordinary professor JohnRassias, our honorary classmate, who died on December 2. Paul remembers a talk that John gave at one of our class reunions where he demonstrated how to hold the attention of students by breaking an egg on his head—with all the resultant mess.

Bob Rooke’s successor was promoted. Our new class treasurer is Rich Ryerson ’80.

Richard Gordon Commons died on September 13, 2015, 12 days after his wife, Phyllis, in Jensen Beach, Florida, where he lived. Dick received his D.D.S. from Penn and practiced dentistry in his hometown of Port Washington, New York, until 1990, when he moved to Jensen Beach. Dick, a life-long sailor, is survived by three daughters and two sons.

Albert Raymond Hughes Jr. died on October 21, 2015, at his home in Gladwynne, Pennsylvania. Bud raised his family in Bronxville, New York, and spent 42 years in investment banking with Lord, Abbett & Co. He leaves three sons and a daughter.

John Ambrose Carey Jr. died on October 24, 2015, in Canandaigua, New York, where he lived. Jack, 92, was married in 1943, when almost all of us were in high school. He spent his career as an insurance salesman for New England Life in Rochester, New York. He is survived by four daughters and four sons.

—John Adler, 1623 Pelican Cove Road, BA123, Sarasota, FL 34231; (203) 622-9069; (941) 966-2943 (fax)