This column provides the opportunity to write to all classmates. The world today is full of change and challenge. We may be retired, but we need not sit on the sidelines. Share your thoughts as members of a transformative generation. How do we or should we handle the corona contagion, the new Cold War, racial injustice, conflicting thought on campus, and increased partisanship in government? What lessons can our generation pass on to the next? Likewise, what experiences enriched your lives and should be shared?

Controversy can enhance the engagement of active minds: It would enliven this column. So share your wildest thoughts! For example, I think the College mascot should be the “evergreen.” It has the advantage of multiple meanings. Our teams should be called the Evergreens. After all, the unofficial logo or mascot of Stanford is the redwood. What do you think? 

I’m not the designated author-at-large, just the class secretary. For obvious reasons there is very little going on by way of Dartmouth alumni events to report. So I need your news to make this column worth reading: Write in!

—Jay Evans, 274 New Aldrich Road, Grantham, NH 03753; gjevans222@gmail.com