Jo Sherwood was married to Peter “Al” Sherwood for nearly 50 years before his death in 2013. Responding to an invitation from class president Al Rapoport to attend the mini-reunion in October 2014, Jo recalled: “Peter and I made special trips to the college over the years and I loved to hear him recall fond memories of the years he spent at Dartmouth. Peter was a visionary and very successful businessman. Dartmouth served him well. He left a legacy for the family we can all be proud of.” Jo sent her best regards to Peter’s friends and apologized for not being able to attend the reunion.


The class of ’62 is fortunate in being able to rely upon the knowledge, skills and experience of the many experts in its ranks. For example, Steve Reid, one of our guys with a sterling 50-plus-year career as a life insurance professional, has been appointed to act as gift planning chair for our class. He succeeded Tom Sturgill, who held the job when it was called the bequest chair. Steve is getting his arms around the new responsibilities involved in the job and will be communicating in one way or another with ’62 some time this autumn.


As this column is being written, the calendar is moving toward the arrival of the first of a long string of centennial dates related to the “Great War,” as professor John Adams insisted his history students call the event. My experience of two Adams’ modern history courses remain fresh in my memory, though many other subjects no longer do so. I cherish the time I spent in his lectures and preparing for each event he presented. It is not likely, I suppose, that any sound recording or film of an Adams presentation exists. Professor Adams and Lew Stillwell would have been great stars, each in their own fashion, if they could have recorded their teaching for use over the Internet. What, and when, will Dartmouth do about recording the lectures of its present-day faculty stars?


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—Denny Barnes, 17007 Barn Ridge Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20906; (301) 460-4523; dnbarnes62@verizon.net