Response to our ’57 bookshelf column has generated an additional 12 books from seven authors. New total: 18 authors and 32 books! Let’s continue alphabetically, adding to the classmates and books listed in that previous column. First author to be added is Russ Brignano with two books, Richard Wright: An Introduction to the Man and His Works and Black Americans in Autobiography. I learned of his books from his widow, Mary, who has a book of her own, Beyond the Bounds, a History of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Mary’s book also serves as an introduction to Bob Creasy’stwo additionalmedical books, New Hope for Problem Pregnancies and Management of Labor and Delivery, leading us to Charlie Cummings and his Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery.

Now, after John Hobbie, add Don Hutchins for his Walking by Day; Steve Katz with three, his Kings of Cut-Rate, Guide to Cycling Kansas City, and Guide to Cycling St. Louis; and Art Koff for his Invent Your Retirement: Resources for the Good Life. I had submitted the previous column when Art notified me of his book, and I promised he would be included in this update. Sadly, Art did not live to see this addition, but, for me, it’s an important promise kept.

With Michael Lasser’s three books now in front of you, please add his fourth, Say It with a Beautiful Song: The Art and Craft of the Great American Song Book. And we’re ready to add our final book, the third from Larry Selig, Discovering the Counter-Culture Jesus: Insights from the Holy Land and the Gospel of Mark.

It sometimes appears ’57s are just writing books, but a visit to our class listserv reveals our attention to issues of the day. Today,it’s the spirited exchange between Bruce Bernstein and Jane Bancroft concerning the unionization of Dartmouth basketball and the outpouring of responses from classmates Tom Macy, Bob MacDonald, Gary Gilson,and Charles Tseckares. It’s also President Beilock’s measured response and remembering President Dickey’s instruction to us, “Your business here is learning, and that is up to you.”

—John W. Cusick, 105 Island Plantation Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 32963; (772) 231-1248; johnw cusick57@gmail.com