With this issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine our column is reduced from 500 to 350 words. It’s perhaps a sign that fewer of us have news about promotions or awards, but judging from our 55th reunion there’s no sign that things are slowing down for this class as it approaches its 80s. Following our 55th at the Trapp Family Lodge about a dozen of us were able to share an hour or so with Johannes von Trapp ’63, who told us a good bit of the family history behind the movie. Charles Morrissey got some of us thinking about capturing the oral history of our families while there is still time; and Alan Friedman,M.D., provided sound medical counsel for those who want to be around for our 60th in 2016. He’d be delighted to share his handouts with any of you at ajfmdpc@aol.com. Not a soul was acting his or her agewhen Fred Abraham’s 18-piece swing band closed our Friday night’s festivities at the lodge! This reunion set the bar pretty darn high!


Joel Ash will be crafting this columns beginning with the next issue, and he’d welcome news about yourself or some of our classmates at jash_125@comcast.net. He’s a real magician, doing one-man shows and hosting a monthly meeting of the Wizards of the Upper Valley Magic Club, but he’ll not make up news. 


Robert Grossman’s new novel, Another Time/Another Land, is about a Jewish naval officer on a two-year assignment handling court-martial cases at our base in Morocco. While defending an officer accused of a homosexual assault against an influential Arab aide to the monarchy the hero meets and falls in love with a married, Russian Orthodox woman whose family fled St. Petersburg in 1917 and ultimately settled in Tangier. That will keep you up reading into the late hours.


The College has informed me of Jack Welborn’s death on April 27 after a long illness. Look online at the DAM for an obituary.


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