My request for material in this column met with some success. Dick Hlavac wrote from New Zealand that after military service he “trained as a librarian and, eventually, became the university librarian at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. I retired in 2001 and have held a number of jobs at that university and in Christchurch.” He and his wife, Jackie, 62 years married, have four children, 10 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. “We visited the United States in 2000 and went back to Hanover, which brought back so many memories of the College.” He “always looks forward to reading about what all my old Dartmouth friends have been doing.”

Bob Mackay reports from Berlin, where he has lived since just after graduation: “I spent 15 days in Cuba in February, traveling by minibus from Santiago de Cuba in the South up to Havana. An amazingly beautiful country, lovely people, great music, little crime so few police—all immensely proud of their country. Sad that their stupid Marxist planned economy coupled with our equally useless embargo sanctions keep them in needless poverty. What threat is Cuba to us? I recommend a Cuba visit for everybody. Fly via Mexico or Canada.”

I have only one additional offering in the can to be published in the next edition. Please repair to your computers and send me news of events in your lives.

Word of the day: middlebrow—a person who is capable of or enjoys only a moderate degree of intellectual effort.

CPAP users: I alert you to the allegation that CPAP machines are now being used by insurers, doctors, and manufacturers to spy on patients. Others benefit from your assisted sleep. More next time on the risks of using a CPAP machine, unless I am flooded with news from all of you.

With sadness, I report the passing of Neil M. Barker, Cleto DiGiovanni Jr., M.D., William Droegemueller, Ernest M. Grunebaum,and John R. Weber.

—Chuck Woodhouse, 29 C Claudette Drive, Milford, MA 01757; (508) 202-2447; kirk8202@gmail.com