Retired: Kent Hutchinson serves on the boards of directors of Fisher House, Charleston, South Carolina, providing free lodging for families of military veterans receiving treatment at the nearby VA Medical Center, and the USS Yorktown Foundation, supporting Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum across the Cooper River from Charleston. Quintessential “well-rounded individual” and former World Bank economist Peter Knight, Ph.D., remains active in retirement in Oregon, interacting with thought leaders internationally in the areas of innovation, sufficiency, and sustainability and campaigning for universal basic income. He practices competitive stand-up paddle racing and “lots of photography” (petertknight.com). After recovering from Covid-19, Tyko Kihlstedt is back playing tennis doubles in New York’s Central Park and photographing the city. He engages in liberal political activism on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (tykokdt), and in the blogsphere (tykokihlstedt.com). Retired foreign service officer and ambassador Henry Clarke founded a public charity dedicated to assisting disadvantaged children from Kyrgyzstan. He has written a book about establishing the first U.S. embassy in Uzbekistan in 1962 to 1965 and serves as an election worker in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Still at it: Bill Carpenter retired in Maine in 2019 after 50 years of teaching at the university level, but missed his students, so he took on three Zoom classes (T.S. Eliot, Yeats, and Freud) and looks forward to teaching a semester of Robert Frost next year. Professor Jerry Cohen, 53 years on, still teaching German and etymology in Rolla, Missouri, enjoys the interaction with students and the challenges of research, much of it in working-paper form waiting to be published. After relocating to Michigan Neil Drobny, Ph.D., returned part-time to teaching an honors course on sustainable business practices at the business school of Western Michigan University.

Mark your calendars: October 8-10 for the annual mini-reunion during Homecoming (Yale) and June 13-16, 2022, for our 60th(!) reunion in Hanover.

I regret to report the deaths of William E. “Bill” Mahaney, Ph.D., of Salem, Massachusetts, on May 3; Sidney D. “Sid” Trapp Jr. of Canoga Park, California, on May 26; and Alan P. Weeks of Frederick, Maryland, on June 3.

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