Your correspondent is pleased to report that Ken Johansen, our penultimate president, was presented with the Dartmouth Alumni Award on October 23, 2013. He has served us well through the years and has earned our recognition.


The Upper Valley fourth Tuesday of the month luncheon club gathered with spouses and others on the third Tuesday before Christmas at its annual coed gala. If you are going to be visiting Hanover or environs in the back half of December (or the back half of any month), email Jim Adler to reserve a place at the table. Your lady will be welcome at the auxiliary table. Email or call Denny Goodman’s wife, Laura-Beth, for a spot. 


Larry Mayo’s wife, Gail, advises Larry passed away in September. His greatest joy was doing fieldwork; he suffered from the effects of Parkinson’s disease for almost 15 years but traveled about Alaska and participated in farming activities there for many of those years. His final passion was his boat, a wooden Grand Banks 32-footer, which was his second home in the wilds of southeast Alaska for almost 10 years.


Meanwhile, Reed Browning reports, “I’ve been listening this evening to a record that the Dartmouth Glee Club made back in 1958 or 1959. Heavy in nostalgia [he was on the glee team] though some of the lyrics wouldn’t pass political-correctness muster today. We sounded pretty damn good.”


Eric Sailer reports the death of Stephen Larson of Edina, Minnesota. “He was a prominent physician in Minneapolis and we were classmates in the 24-student class of Dartmouth Medical School ’61. His death is covered extensively in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The deranged son of one of his patients murdered him at his own home and the murderer was killed by the police. Steve was a wonderful guy, hockey manager and member of Phi Delt. He took his medical studies seriously but was always ready for the parties at our old medical fraternity and at the same fraternity at McGill. He was a very dedicated physician in his obstetrics-gynecology specialty.” 


It’s A Small World Department: Mike Stern ’59 was perusing ’60s notes and came upon Paul Cantor’s name. Mike said, “I asked my daughter, Ricki ’87, if she knew Paul’s son, because they are both in documentary film producing. She knew John very well, but had no idea I knew Paul; small world! Can you give me his email address?” Just one more service provided by the column. 


—John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., 14, Rutland, VT 05701; jmm00033@comcast.net