Keeping Kennedy’s Promise: The Peace Corps: Unmet Hope of the New Frontier by Kevin Lowther and Payne Lucas (1978) was reissued in 2020 following Kevin’s The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: The Life and Times of a South Carolina Slave Who Returned to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland (2011), both inspired by Kevin’s Peace Corps and Africare service. Kevin also writes for Kelleher’s Stamp Collector’s Quarterly; Maynard Wheeler ’61 is included among his many readers.

Retired emergency room physician Steve Chase released his first novel, Forever Sunrise: A River to Immortality (Amazon), a science fiction tale of life, death, and the quest for immortality. Paul Binder is working on an audiobook version of Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion and Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus (2013) with a live forward by actress Glenn Close and narration by Max Samuels ’15, graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Paul resides in Sarasota, Florida, where he’s in contact with Fred Jarrett, general and vascular surgeon who lives in the area.

With the pandemic winding down, Fred and Barbara Schmucker prepared to travel from their home near the bay in Coupeville, Washington, to visit sons Fred Jr. and Eric, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Fred Sr. played hockey as a freshman and sophomore for coach Eddie Jeremiah, then joined the Navy and earned his degree at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Beginning with Ashland, he launched a sales career in heavy industrial chemicals before retiring with Barbara, a registered nurse.

Happy 80th birthday everyone. Dave Schaefer planted a fresh crop of tomatoes; John Merrow biked his age plus three. Celebrate yours at the ’63 Homecoming mini-reunion October 8-10. After-the-game cocktail party and dinner will be held at the Dowds’ Country Inn in Lyme, New Hampshire. Rooms there and at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lebanon, New Hampshire, may still be available. Check the class of ’63 website.

I regret to report the passing of Barry Elson and Guy Vicinelli.Classmate obituaries by Tige Harris appear in the magazine online edition.

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