Summer recalls youthful days of beaches, hiking, sports, travel, and communing with nature. For Pete Brown, such memories are filled with the many family members and friends who taught and nurtured him through an at times rugged journey from age 5 through adulthood. Pete’s nostalgic, moving memoir, Dedicated to S.O.B., is available on Amazon and Kindle. S.O.B. are the initials (and affectionate nickname) of Pete’s great-grandfather, S.O. Brown, a 19th-century Maine mill owner whose log cabin or camp provided welcome retreat during Pete’s childhood in Philadelphia and in various placees in the Midwest and West, including Denver. His father, a geologist, was killed in a plane crash when Pete was just 9. As a result, the Brown Camp in the Maine woods, founded by S.O.B., became all the more central to Pete’s life. The book—a collection of essays for the benefit of Pete’s children, grandchildren, classmates, friends, and other readers—includes Dartmouth adventures and descriptions of Pete’s work after college as high school math teacher and gymnastics coach, his 26 years as a professional in college admissions, including at Dartmouth from 1968 to 1975, and his 15 years as proprietor of sports card and memorabilia stores in Idaho and the state of Washington.

For ’63s, consider our own collective annual mini-reunion retreat in Hanover, October 11-12, featuring dinners Friday and Saturday night, the annual executive committee meeting (all ’63s invited) followed by Yale football on Saturday, and breakfast at the Hanover Inn on Sunday. The class has booked a block of 16 rooms at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in White River Junction, Vermont, that will be held till September 1. Call (802) 299-2700 to reserve. For further info, go to the Dartmouth ’63 website.

Thirty-four tickets were sold for the class block near the 50-yard line for Dartmouth vs. Princeton on Saturday, November 9, at Yankee Stadium in New York City. Although advance sales are closed, you can purchase tickets for general seating at DartmouthSports.com or by calling (603) 646-2466. Watch the class website for info about a possible get-together.

While you are on the site, check out the fact-filled summary and photos of the class trip last November to Cortona, the picturesque medieval hill town in the Tuscany region of central Italy known for its wine, scenery, and attractions. In addition, Claire S. “Deamie” Cabot, one of the organizers and author of articles and books, shared with me personal impressions traveling with class president and husband Sam Cabot from the Florence, Italy, airport. “As we traveled closer to Cortona, in the Arezzo province of Tuscany, we began to see large plantations of olive trees,” Deamie wrote. “People were gathering the harvest with large nets on the ground. The locals seemed to be coaxing the olives out of the trees with long rakes. We passed a magnificent church on our climb to the old city: Santa Maria delle Grazie al Calcinaio, a High Renaissance church built between 1485 and 1513 by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. It was perfectly square covered with an impressive dome.”

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