Though ’round the girdled earth he roamed, David Halsted settled in an 1814 Federal-style home an hour from Hanover after retiring from 32 years in the Foreign Service with stops in Uganda, Lesotho, Tanzania, South Africa, Burma and Washington, D.C., capped by a three-year stint as U.S. ambassador to Chad in Central Africa. David and wife Michele, also a Foreign Service veteran, took up residence in 2001 in their Bradford, New Hampshire, home decorated by Rufus Porter, a mid-19th-century muralist who worked on some 160 houses and inns throughout New England and as far south as Virginia. The lifestyle suits David, a Vermont native who is as comfortable working with moldings and making furniture as he is skiing and enjoying the outdoors. David keeps up with class activities, including the Santa Fe, New Mexico, birthday trip, ski trips and a Red Sox game last year. An international relations major, David attended officers candidate school after college, serving in Ethiopia and Boston. He earned a master’s at George Washington University before embarking on his long, productive Foreign Service career.

Travel in the service of our country is also a big theme for Bob Davis, who still practices law in the state of Washington, after a journey beginning freshman year as a member of the Marine Corps’ platoon leader class program that included summers in Quantico, Virginia. After Stanford Law School Bob went back to Marine Corps training and was assigned to the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam as lawyer with collateral duties, and remained in the reserves until 1990 with the rank of colonel and a Bronze Star. In 1970 Bob joined Lane Powell, a large Seattle-based law firm, where he remains associated. “I like to say my specialty in environmental and natural resources (paper and timber companies) and railroad law is the cutting edge of the 19th century,” he joked, “when considering the Northwest is obsessed with high tech and media these days.” Mostly though these days Bob enjoys volunteering for Employees Support for the (National) Guard and Reserve, an intermediary for national guardsmen and their employers. He also loves to swim at the Washington Athletic Club. He and Suzanne, whom he met when she was working for the United States in Vietnam, have two married daughters in California.

Bob Reynolds, also a Vietnam veteran with a Bronze Star, retired in 2000 after 36 years in the telecommunications industry serving companies including New Jersey Bell, AT&T and Lucent. Bob enjoyed a taco dinner February 25 with his family, including three granddaughters, to celebrate his 76th birthday. Political consultant and real estate developer Tim Kraft and wife Molly found themselves relocating to Albuquerque, New Mexico, from nearby Las Cruces in the middle of the class Santa Fe birthday reunion. While they could not make the festivities, the Krafts did take time out to have an “enjoyable lunch with Jim Page, Bob Kaplan and Gil Knight and their spouses.”

I regret to report the death of Skip Eichin in Cashiers, North Carolina.

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