There’s lots of news for this column, but quite a bit of it is about things that didn’t happen. For example: It was virtually cast in stone that that Gerry and Ginny Sarno were at long last going to visit Vero Beach, Florida. Friends had invited them to stay on Florida’s west coast and they were going to make the 150-plus mile trip across to the East. Not to be. Something or other happened—the west coast invitation evaporated—and the new plan put them at Sea Island, Georgia, instead, 500 or 600 miles from Vero. At least we had a nice telephone conversation. Then there was the visit from Dave and Karen Taylor, who contemplated a precedent-shattering trip to Florida, which never happened. Again, a nice phone conversation with Dave.


Dick Frey’s wife, Mary, called to say that they were planning an early departure from their winter quarters in Vero Beach in order to take up residence in a retirement home in Madison, Wisconsin—no visit with them.


Another phone event with Bill Turnio, who, with wife Mary, was actually in Vero but we didn’t get to see them due to scheduling problems.


Enough already! Randi and I enjoyed an excellent lunch with Bob Mauk’s widow, Joan, whom I first met when she was 14 and visiting her cousin, my best buddy Joe Eaton, a Harvard man.


Bob Kilmarx reports that his grandson Sumner is “loving and doing well at Dartmouth” and niece Annie McLane Kuster ’77 has been elected to Congress. Annie is the daughter of Mary’s sister Susan.


Bob McIlwain reports that Tap Dancing to Work, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, was written by Carol Loomis, a one-time roommate and maid of honor of wife Joan. Bob, no stranger to health problems himself, has been keeping a watchful eye on Clift Whiteman, who has recently been hospitalized and is, at this writing, in a rehab center.


I am saddened to report the death of our loyal class treasurer, Howard “Fizz” Nichols. His passing ended 13 years of debilitating and painful decline of health, throughout all of which he stalwartly attended to our class finances. More sad news includes the deaths of John Talley, Bushnell Keeler, Ray Marchant and Richard “Sal” Putney.


—Nev Chamberlain, 1835 North Garden Grove Circle, Vero Beach, FL 32962; (772) 569-2893; ranevero03@aol.com