To write these notes at the end of October knowing that when you read this, it will be January 2025 presents an interesting task. We will have a new president in what we hope was a peaceful transition. Thanksgiving has come and gone as have the holidays, which I hope you were able to spend with family. The World Series will be over. Football is complete (currently at 6-0), and we’ll know if they managed to repeat as league champs. The Buddy Teevens ’79 Stadium at Memorial Field was dedicated in October. President Beilock announced a $500-million investment in creating and renewing undergraduate housing.

The tensions of war and death continued in the Mideast and the Ukraine. We experienced deadly storms, floods, and tornadoes (Helene, Milton) here also in the North Carolina mountains and both coasts of Florida. Paul Merriken’s widow, Shirley Tenny, went 21 days without power and running water in their retirement home in Asheville, North Carolina. Dave Anderson left his summer home in the western North Carolina mountains the day before Helene and returned to Boca Raton, Florida, after a “rough trip.”

With all this chaos and distortion nationally and internationally, it is natural to ask the question, “What can we do for others?” This was asked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1957, as quoted by the director of the Hood Museum in the recent quarterly. The opportunities are there—go for it.

Don Charbonnier took in Dartmouth’s come-from-behind overtime victory against Yale. That win sparked a number of great win recalls. Marty Aronson reminded us of the win over Holy Cross in 1954, which he was broadcasting, when Lou Turner caught the winning touchdown pass and then intercepted the Holy Cross try as time ran out.

Sadly, we report the passing of John Barlow and James Beisman.

—Ken Lundstrom, 1912 Marsh Road, IL Apt. 132, Wilmington, DE 19810; (919) 641-5219; ken lundstrom@yahoo.com