Blame it on an uncooperative calendar. The October 28 deadline for this column falls on the weekend of our Homecoming mini-reunion in Hanover, so new news and views from classmates gleaned thereat will have to wait for the next Class Notes column two months hence. Alas.

If past is prologue, those of us who couldn’t be there missed a lively Saturday class dinner at the Lyme Inn, arranged by Frank Gould and presided over by John Trimble. Not to mention the pre-Harvard game brunch hosted by Dave Bradley following the class meeting, where Sam Smith and Mike Simberkoff debuted in their respective new jobs of vice president and treasurer. Homecoming postscript from John: The weather was “awful” and the Green “won a squeaker” over Harvard.

We have three departures to report since our super 60th reunion in June. One is the tragic death of Bob Gilges and his wife, Carroll, in a flash flood last spring on their way home from a family function in Virginia. Bob retired in 1995 after a distinguished career in management consultancy at KPMG.

John Kavanagh sends word of Dan Palant’s passing on August 18, 2018, of complications following a fall at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts. The musically adept Dan was John’s roommate in Hanover and lifelong buddy. His tribute to his pal will appear in the next Sound & Fury newsletter.

The most recent death notice from Hanover informs us of Stephen Jay Wilson’s September 6, 2018, passing from causes unknown in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Steve spent his career in the paper industry, where he served in a series of top-level corporate positions.

—Steve Quickel, 411 North Middletown Road, Apt. F-310, Media, PA, 19063; steve58@quickel.net