I am writing just days before the election, so let’s talk instead about the amazing October 3 virtual class of 1958 Homecoming via Zoom staged by John Trimble, Frank Gould,and, most of all, our adopted classmate Sandy Swain-Bromwell, who made two Zooms happen. The annual class meeting in the morning was mercifully brief, with VP Sam Smith subbing for John, who was rehabbing from eye surgery. Treasurer Mike Simberkoff reported we’re solvent and Dave Bradley and Dan O’Hara talked about class projects. The evening cocktail party kicked off with coach Buddy Teevins ’79 talking about Dartmouth football. Then came 60-second pandemic reflections from West Coast eastward. First we saw Hal Douglas in Oregon, then Vicky and Tryg Myhren in Colorado, Liz and Skip Coggin in Illinois, Joanna and Glower Jones in Georgia, Hal Bernsen in Virginia, Henry Hof in New Jersey, and all of the usual New England suspects. Bob Downey in New York said he lost 30 pounds. Someone else reported shooting his age at golf. Sam Silverstein chipped in with words of medical wisdom. We zoomed out to strains of “Dartmouth Undying” ringing softly in our ears on that October evening, thanks to Sandy Swain-Bromwell.

Other classmate contacts include the following. All’s well with Gersh Abraham in Evanston, Illinois, where he hikes five miles daily but steers clear of Northwestern’s campus, where few students wear masks. Coleman Colla continues to send his views from western Los Angeles. A personal delight arose from Ron Zwart’s suggestion last issue to retitle the Sound & Fury as The Quickel and the Dead. That drew an email chuckle from John Cusick,the ’57 class secretary and a fellow Phi Delt.

Sadly, we note the passing of seven classmates: John Diggs, M.D., in Georgetown, South Carolina, who ran cross country; Oliver Witte of Wheaton, Illinois, who worked on the Milwaukee Journal and taught architecture; John Blunt at Village of Golf, Florida, who managed family trusts, including those of his uncle, Carleton ’26, for whom the alumni center in Hanover is named; William DeGraw in Newburgh, New York, in Rip Van Winkle country; and Paul Wysard in his hometown of Honolulu, where he taught at Punahou School; Norm Sylvester of Connecticut, an ex-Marine, advertising executive, and class VP; and Jaegwon Kim in Providence, Rhode Island, who taught philosophy at Brown and other Ivied schools.

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