Lou Gerstner and John Merrow made news. Lou, retired chairman and CEO of IBM, published a Wall Street Journal op-ed on remote work which, he argued, is “highly detrimental [for] people who aspire to lead or manage others in an academic, nonprofit, governmental, or business institution.” Lou’s career, he wrote, was driven through in-office mentoring and supervisor examples. John, former Peabody and George Polk Award-winning education reporter for PBS, took on current public education issues in a DAM profile, including technology in classrooms, homeroom time, why we’re test crazy, unfair advantages for many students, charter schools, and need to recognize parents as primary teachers. John also spoke at North Country Community College in Saranac Lake, New York, alongside Pete Suttmeier, chairman of the board of trustees. A resident of Keene, New Hampshire, Pete was off to Norway, Scotland, and other countries on a Smithsonian cruise.

Retired attorney Bill King and wife Grace live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they support First Union School, an early 20th-century landmark they purchased around 2008. It is one of many schools to aid Black students founded by Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck, and Booker T. Washington. Bill and Grace have 10 grandchildren. Bill caught up with Chuck Pfeifer, freshman football buddy who left Dartmouth to join the Army, graduated from West Point, and served in Vietnam, winning Silver and Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. Writer, producer, and actor (Wall Street and Born on the Fourth of July) Chuck and Lisa live in New York and Florida.

Dartmouth ranks high in Peace Corps volunteers, the College’s news site reported. Class of ’63s include Sam Cabot (Chile), John Chamberlain (Nigeria), Ash Hartwell (Ethiopia), Joel August (Ecuador), Len Levitt (Tanzania), and Dave Dawley (Honduras).

October 2 is the deadline for favorably priced rooms for Harvard Homecoming, November 1-2, at Hilton Garden Inn Hanover/Lebanon, says reunion cochair Jeff Nothnagle.

I regret to report the passing of Dave Collyer, Mike Losee, and Dave Smoyer. Newsletter editor Dave Schaefer reports 272 classmates have left us. Read obituaries by Tige Harris on the DAM website.

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