During the weekend of September 30-October 1 about 60 classmates and spouses participated in a Hanover-area mini-reunion organized by Kathy and Al Munro.More than half of the participants traveled from beyond the Hanover area, including Anne and Herb Schoenberg and Betsy and Mark Gates from California, Vicki and Jim Lust from South Dakota and Lauretta and Stew Economou from Virginia. Among the many highlights was a presentation on the upcoming elections by Linda Fowler, a professor emerita of government at Dartmouth, followed by a discussion moderated by Scott Palmer with panelists Ed Hobbie, Jim Lust and Hank Wirts. Another highlight was hearing from a student-athlete whose recruitment was funded by the Athletic Sponsors Program, a program supported with funds from our class dues and also directly supported by nearly 50 individual classmates. The athlete was Grant Jaffe ’20, a freshman long-snapper and the grandson of Joan and Peter Jaffe, who are temporarily living near Hanover. All of us, including the grandparents, were impressed by Grant’s articulate and poised presentation. Grant was introduced by Bill Colehower, who, during our senior year, was the starting center on Dartmouth’s first Ivy championship football team and, in that era of less specialized, one-platoon football, the long-snapper.

Although most events that include significant numbers of classmates and spouses are major (every fifth year) reunions and annual Hanover-area and destination mini-reunions, other gatherings are noteworthy.

Charlie Pinkerton has been organizing monthly lunches at the Norwich Inn primarily attended by the 15 or so classmates who live near Hanover. In the San Diego area, several lunches each year are organized by Randy Malin and primarily attended by Jim Bybee, Bob Filderman, George LeFevre and Charlie MacVean. In June Arlene and Ray Johnson hosted more than 30 Delta Upsilon brothers and spouses in Mystic, Connecticut. The ’59 classmates and spouses joining Arlene and Ray were Judy and Doug Adams, Helen and Lee Gilliat, Linda and Karl Holtzschue, Chuck Hoyt, Bunny and Jim Neff, Judy and Vince Sawyer and Donna and Sam Swansen.

—Dick Hoehn, 845 Union St., Marshfield, MA 02050; (781) 834-4113; rhoehn@choate.com