Phil Kron continues to show that nice guys don’t just finish last. He has brought our class to the leader of the van with the most members enrolled in the Bartlett Tower Society (those who designate the College in their wills) of any class. Mort Kondracke,a trustee, recently dazzled The Wall Street Journal crowd with a learned op-ed page screed, and Barry MacLean,a former trustee,brought distinction to the class as well. Barry decided it would be beneficial to some undergrads to bind humanities to engineering technology by extending $25 millon to get it done.

Take a peek at the spring issue of Dartmouth Medicine magazine, where Dr. Frank Virnelli is lauded for mentoring Adrianna Stanley at Geisel as a budding plastic surgeon helping kids in Guatemala. Not bad for a bunch of 77-year-olds.

But O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra continues with the report of the passing of Kent Kubitz in April. We received a letter from Jim Rogers ’51 along with a tear sheet from the University of Minnesota Medical Bulletin praising our late John Kersey as the founder in 1991 of that university’s cancer center and its director for its first 25 years. And Bob Kenerson’swife, Ruth, a wonderful supporter of our class and Bob’s tireless work with students the class helps financially, also succumbed to cancer.

October 28-29 is Homecoming, with football against Harvard, and is our class meeting weekend.

—John M. Mitchell, 300 Grove St., Rutland, VT 05701; (802) 775-3716; jmm00033@comcast.net