I parked down Maple Street to the west of Main on Homecoming Night, which was the best I could do. In return I got to climb a gentle slope lit by gracefully aging homes to the warm welcome of the Canoe Club, one of the best of eateries that have replaced the short-order Hanover we knew for four years.

There, amidst the crowded room at a table stretching nearly wall to wall, were 40 or so ’63s as hungry for the renewal of old times as for the Ahi tuna, vegetarian ravioli and sautéed Maine mussels. I sat with George and Mary Jo Heller, who divide retirement between Pennsylvania and Arizona; Chuck Wessendorf and Mary Ellen Sullivan, about to witness their 55th consecutive Dartmouth football game; and Sam and Deamie Cabot. Sam, with Dan Muchinsky, organized the weekend. Afterward we joined the parade of classes to Dartmouth Hall, till a sudden Dartmouth-style downpour caused us to scurry to our cars. Luckily I was able to catch a lift with Ken Kvistad of Berne, Switzerland.

Our exec committee convened Saturday morning in the stain-glassed Treasure Room of Baker Library. We heard from student scholar-athletes, introduced by Bill Wellstead, scholar-scholars, tended by Marty Bowne, and community service mentees, managed by Bruce Baggaley, all programs that have been funded by your generous dues and class contributions. We voted to continue our support of these programs and heard a report from Tom Perry on mini-reunions, which included Yankee Stadium in September attended by Dan and Lee Matyola, Paul Binder and ShelleyDoctors, George and Olga Badenock, John and Joan Merrow, and me. Reports were made by head class agent Bob Bysshe, Ed Mazer and Petie Subin (class birthday trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2016), outgoing Alumni Council rep Bruce Coggeshall (Bob Bysshe will replace), newsletter editor Dave Schaefer, treasurer Bill Russell, webmaster Terry Russell, gift planner Bob Chavey and this writer, who announced the appointment of Dan Muchinsky (dmuchinsky@earthlink.com) as class necrologist, responsible for obits in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

Sam and Deamie Cabot, Bill and Petie Subin, Dan Muchinsky and I had Reubens, lobster rolls and local beers on draught at Salt Hill Pub on Lebanon Street. Beautiful weather, front-row seats and victory for Dartmouth over Yale made time pass quickly in a four-hour game punctuated with TV timeouts. Gil and Deborah Knight, Dave and Judith Goodwillie, John and Melissa Lehigh, Chris and Barbara Harvey and Ernie and Jan Torres were among ’63s rooting through it all.

Dozens of ’63s packed Zimmerman Lounge at Blunt Alumni Center right on campus for our end-of-game party Saturday night, among them Bob and Sally Barnum of Lyme, New Hampshire; Dick and Carolyn Swett of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine; and Larry and Bobbie Chapman of Loudon, Tennessee.

We lost two standouts during this period: Roger Adelman, who was prosecutor of President Reagan’s would-be assassin John W. Hinckley in 1982, on September 12, and Tom Berger, the prominent Shakespearian writer and editor, on October 6.

—Harry Zlokower, 190 Amity St., Brooklyn, NY 11201; (917) 541-8162; harry@zlokower.com