This column, written in late August, won’t hit your mailboxes until after the Oct. 11-13 fall mini-reunion in Hanover. But through the good offices of webmaster Andy Thomas, it will be posted to the class website as soon as it’s written. Meantime you’ve received the reservation form, which outlines the stellar arrangements made by mini-master Frank Gould—at Breakfast on the Connecticut, where we will stay and banquet Saturday night after the Yale football game, plus the pre-game festivities at Dave Bradley’s law office and Friday post-bonfire “food and libations” at Lewiston Depot in Norwich, Vermont. Do join us!


Gersh Abraham thanked John Murphy for “the very pleasant remarks about my presidency” in his final Sound and Fury—but adds this correction: “Our 2008 award as Class of the Year, just after the 50th reunion, was in recognition of achievements during Ralph Manuel’s presidency, not mine. I accepted the award as incoming president because Ralph was away.” This July, after Sally’s upbeat medical report, the Abrahams decamped for the summer to their Grafton home near Hanover.


News of Joe Jacquet’s sudden death on July 17 after cutting his lawn on Oak Island, North Carolina, came from his wife, Lynne, via Frank Gado: “When Joe didn’t return at the usual time she found him on the garage floor. Joe was an unselfish, loyal friend and treasured the fellowship he found in our class. Lynne spent the next day arranging donation of his body to Duke Medical School.” Later Lynne sent me the local obituary she wrote citing his many services to Dartmouth and the class and noting his Williamson Award two years ago. “But I left out that Joe was an Eagle Scout. Ralph Manuel said I should tell you that.”


Two other recent departures are Hank Reilly on May 22, also reported by fellow Deke Gado, and Ted Neely on July 20. Hank lived near Burlington, Vermont, and had become an award-winning painter. Ted had retired to Madison, Connecticut, with wife Charlotte after a long Washington career as a Library of Congress translator and Russian linguist with the Office of Naval Intelligence. Finally, I just learned that urologist Bryant Barnard died August 17 in Wenham, Massachusetts.


—Steve Quickel, 65 Chapel Road, New Hope, PA 18938; swquickel@comcast.net