It was only 67 years ago that we arrived in Hanover and quickly learned that “beanie” was an important part of our vocabulary. Soon we were in sensory overload as we were surrounded by the magnificent colors of the fall season as well as a growing stack of textbooks for us to ponder. Soon the totality of the wonders of Thayer Hall would be fully revealed to us. We began to navigate past places such as Topliff, Gile, Russell Sage, Ripley, Wheeler, Wilder, and Sanborn. Parkhurst was a place we tried to avoid. Also to be avoided was Dick’s House. The Tower Room at Baker was the go-to place for a nap—at any time. The centroid of our activities seemed to be located at a place run by two non-professors with the name of Tanzi—but they taught us a lot. Only Lou’s did better at attracting us. Many of us dream of those times and many would like to return for a fall visit. However, for a variety of reasons, it will most likely be Zoom or Teams get together. Standing by our class motto of “Stay Connected,” there are several grassroots efforts to have smaller get-togethers in several locales. Certainly, the classmates in the Hanover area are headed that way and Larry Friedricks is leading an effort to get those connected to the West Coast to coalesce in the Southern California region for a memory roundup. David Marr checked in from Australia. His experiences in Vietnam as a Marine led him to a professorship at the Australian National University Canberra with deep interest in the key factors in the history of Vietnam. His projects “Vietnam 1945-1950: State, War and Revolution” and “A History of the Vietnamese culture in the 20th century” are both worthy of a revisit in the world dynamics of today.

Do “Stay Connected” and let me know of those happenings or of your happenings.

—Charlie MacVean, 3528 Liggett Drive, San Diego, CA 92106-2153; (619) 508-4401; crmacvean@msn.com