I had a nice visit on my way to our “Mouse House” in Kennebunkport (Cape Porpoise), Maine, with classmate Nob Hovde, who is doing comfortably well at Wentworth Senior Living (after being emergency flown there from his abode in Naples, Florida). I played a few Lehrer ditties for him. Nob can be reached at 346 Pleasant St., Portsmouth, NH 03801; (508) 246-0947; cell (613) 558-8111. Got a hilarious email from “Da Prez” Bob Kirby called “Bull Fight Symphony.” (Have Bob send it to you—it is well worth the effort.)

I got a nice note from Bill “Carp” Carpenter with some College “old books, records, and remembrances” of his Dartmouth dad and uncle. He won’t be coming to our fall mini but awaits our 75th. Don’t we all, indeed!

Bob questioned dropping the Indian name of the football team, which came up at a board of trustees meeting at which our Bob “Killy” Kilmarx was instrumental thereof and later mirrored by many changes across the United States. Joe Medlicott gives me a jingle now and again with news (some good, some sad) about classmates he is in touch with. A little bit of parental pride here: My middle daughter, Molly, is instrumental in performing with and promoting several “porch feasts” around the Boston area. She accompanies and sings with two others in a neat trio that also has appeared in Aurora, New York, Kennebunkport, and MIT.

Our condolences go out to families of John C. Oakley and Edward W. Noyes.

—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369 5879; smileytmr229@gmail.com