John Dickey’s Quebradillas (AuthorHouse, 2011), a collection of poems about life in rural Puerto Rico, made me want to go there, and now comes The Solar System: A Tour in Verse, a companion to Earth: A Narrative in Verse (AuthorHouse, 2005). The Solar System is a rolling song of celebration, occasionally whimsical and ironic, but ground in careful research with great photos from NASA. It is a book written for all of us, the scientifically challenged like me and the more erudite who got respectable grades in “Astronomy I.” John, a geologist and former dean, has a way of pulling you in by combining the didacticism of a prof with the intimacy of a good friend. Earth is a “garden in outer space,” Jupiter “a bully in a striped sweater pushing asteroids around” and Mars “a planet smaller than the Earth, yet earthlike in its sunlit sky and connate H2O.” You can find The Solar System: A Tour in Verse on Amazon. It comes with a solar system glossary, which I love.


Philip J. Hanlon ’77, Dartmouth’s 18th president, will address us, his first class ever as president, at dinner during the 50th Reunion, Monday, June 10, on the Kemeny Patio. If you haven’t registered for the 50th June 7-11, go online to our site at www.dartmouth.edu, click on “alumni,” then “classes,” and find your way from there. If you need help registering, contact Mike Emerson, johnmichaelemerson@comcast.net, (206) 242-0992. He’ll gladly help. See you there!


A group of classmates got an early start in April at the third annual mini-reunion in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Planned by Mike Prince and Bob Silverman, who along with Peter Israelson have residences in Ponte Vedra Beach, the gathering included Roy and Betty Benson, Bill and Carol Hindle, Bud and Marci Weinstein, Howard and Janet Nannen, Ralph and Nancy Sanders, Peter Israelson and significant other Vanni, Mike and Jeanne Prince and Bob Silverman and significant other Barbara Berlin. Mike, Bob and Peter mapped it all out while riding Peter’s super-hot Chris Craft called the Flying Vonnster. Peter is a partner in Epic Entertainment, which develops IMAX sites throughout the world, most recently four sites in Israel.


The Dwight School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, whose chancellor is Steve Spahn, is opening a comprehensive athletic facility in East Harlem to benefit both Dwight students and neighborhood residents. “We measure our success by the number of young people whose lives we touch in a positive way,” said Steve as reported in New York’s Real Estate Weekly. Dwight will run joint student-resident programs on Saturdays and offer scholarships to qualified students in need.


Povl and Barbara Jorgensen dropped into New York from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to take in hit musical The Book of Mormon. Rich Borofsky and Jeff Rosen devote time helping others solve personal problems. Rich, a couples therapist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, leads couple retreats with wife Antra. Jeff, a retired hospital systems analyst, is a volunteer mediator in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, Dispute Resolution Center.


—Harry Zlokower, 60 Madison Ave., Suite 1010, New York, NY 10010; (212) 447-9292; harry@ zlokower.com