“Tiny” Strong alerted several of us of the efforts of those wounded veterans former President Jim Wright personally located, recruited and welcomed to Dartmouth to start, or continue, their college education. Last fall a number of them, other undergraduates and graduate students formed Project Right Choice, a 501(c3) charity, that has two objectives: each year to raise funds for a selected charitable cause and to foster and encourage students to become leaders in this sort of activity. This year’s project is to raise $150,000 to benefit the Fisher House Foundation, which builds residential facilities near Veterans Administration hospitals to enable the families of wounded veterans to stay, without cost, while their loved ones are receiving medical care. A kickoff banquet was held at the Westin Copley Place, Boston, on July 31. Our class has welcomed these young men at our mini-reunions in Hanover and offered help and advice. You can count on being provided the opportunity to share in their efforts. 


Toby Julian wrote to describe the historical novel he has written and published of the American Civil War called Forever Wave, The Shaping of America. It’s “about one-half an accurate account of the Civil War and all of the major campaigns and battles, and about one-half a fictional account of a family living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that becomes drawn into the war.” Classmates can get autographed copies by contacting Toby at ftj13@windstream.net. 


Rona and Buddy Schattman, Judy and John Allen, Ginger and Doug Keare, Sherrie and Roger Schumacher and a few close friends and family traveled together to Turkey for two weeks in late May and early June, visiting Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya, and sailing for four days on the Mediterranean. This was but one of a number of very interesting and economical trips Roger has designed for classmates. If there’s some place you’d love to visit with friends of old give him a call. I had a great phone call from Tom Bechler describing a trip he and Barbara made to Australia and New Zealand. The description of those spectacularly beautiful countries whets my appetite for travel. Anyone else? Of course, one such trip is back to Hanover for our 55th, June 11-13, 2011. Put that in your calendar before all else!


Bill Barrett played co-pilot again for his wife, Jane, but this time for the “big ride.” The Concord (Massachusetts) Journal described her cross-country bicycle tour from Florida’s Atlantic Ocean to San Diego’s sandy beach, close to 3,000 miles away. Bill managed the van, and Jane logged an average of 50 miles a day for two months, carrying on her bike a water bottle, a cell phone, a two-way radio, some sour balls, Trident chewing gum and sometimes her wallet. If she invites you on a ride at reunion be prepared! Last year she made the trip from Concord to Florida in 24 days, a mere 1,600 miles. Her family calls her “a machine,” and who would quarrel with that?


Word has come from the College of the death of Richard F. Lang on April 2.


—R. Stewart Wood Jr., P.O. Box 968, Quechee, VT 05059-0968; (802) 295-8912; stewwood@aol.com