There’s been another resounding silence from the 424 of us who remained as of June 30. So you won’t read many ’58 names below. Since these notes were written in late August and won’t be read until late October, currency is of the least importance. Our mini-reunion will be past history and some of us will be creating plans for our 65th reunion that will take place September 15, 16, 17, 2023, headquartered at the Hanover Inn. Save those dates if you have not already done so! For many the winter diaspora to warmer climes will have commenced and then we’ll be looking down the throat of the holidays. Yikes! All has not been quiet, however. We’ve learned recently of two legacy gifts to the College and they provide a lesson for planners. One came from a classmate who had not been recently engaged either at the class or college level. He had achieved invisibility! It was a complete surprise of many millions, out of the blue. The other came from the estate of a familiar name who had given other gifts but a final distribution benefited Dartmouth again. Both are reminders it’s never too late to take the mostly simple steps to include Dartmouth in your estate plans. It’s easy for us to assume that old grunts like us have set those plans in concrete but sometimes that’s still only in gravel, so a shovel full can be easily moved from one spot to Dartmouth College. Do yourselves and Dartmouth a favor by promising to dig those estate plans out of their moth holes and modify your gift designations to include your alma mater or, as we have done, to improve a previous intent. We are always reminded that now may be too late when notices are received from the College of classmate deaths: Raydon C. Hitchcock, John B. McCloskey, David A. Shepard. Sometimes that news travels very slowly. Dave died more than a year ago and Ray, who spent just two years at Dartmouth, died very early in 2022. John died in July.

—John Trimble, 99 Mooncussers Lane, Chatham, MA 02633; jtrim99@comcast.net