Coping with Covid-19, continued. Books and TV programs recommended by classmates include the following. Steve Reid: Crash, the 2006 Academy Award-winning movie, deals with today’s issues of racial abuse by police in a very dramatic story. A real gem. Peter Brink: Worricker, a three-part series on Netflix, stars Bill Nighy in a sophisticated spy plot. Sandy Apgar: Paul Dickson’s The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1840-1941, details the Army’s extraordinary but little-known preparations for WWII. Sonia Purcell’s A Woman of No Importance is the riveting bio of Virginia Hall, the most accomplished female American spy and Resistance fighter. Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man and Masha Gessen’s Surviving Autocracy detail the ominous consequences of the Trump era and “a government at war with itself.” Ted Beal: Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen, a Black philosopher and political scientist, poetically and soulfully finds new meaning in Jefferson’s understanding of equality. Craig Dorman recommends Dartmouth alumna Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemmings of Monticello, andDick Brooks likes Raymond L. Roll’s George Marshall: Defender of the Republic. Ted Hessler: Just Getting Started by Tony Bennett is a history of American music and the immigrant experience and an autobiography of a great guy. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage is very psychological and a magnificent story. Roger Usborne: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is the inspiration for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical, Hamilton. He also recommends Enduring Vietnam by James Wright, Dartmouth’s own president emeritus.

Space does not permit including Bob Katz’s excellent list of 21 TV shows or Jim Lemen’s list of favorite authors. Look for these on the class announcement listserv.

Tom Laris checks in from the West Coast: “Exercising by riding my bike five hours a week. Staying five to 10 feet away from people. Tested negative for Covid by my doctor (had a few fatigue symptoms). Now recovered well from the fatigue and am taking Zoloft, which has boosted my energy. Turning 80 left me a little down, but everything else is okay.”

I regret to report the death of our classmate, Theodore F. Rochow, age 79, on June 26 in Brooksville, Florida.

—David L. Smith, RR4 Box 225B4, Galveston, TX 77554; (775) 870-2354; david@davidlsmith.com