We are starting off our column this issue with a tribute to our departed classmate Dartmouth President Emeritus Jim Wright. As a master teacher for more than 40 years, he taught us that members of our armed services are valuable individuals deserving of higher educational opportunities after their tours of duty. He advocated this and raised substantial amounts of money to facilitate their further education at Dartmouth and elsewhere. He knew from the outset that our service men and women would bring wholly new and valuable perspectives of their experiences to the classroom and beyond. We are proud to have made him a classmate and convey to his dear Susan our cherished memories of this remarkable leader. Also departed are classmates Charles “Charlie” E. Greer, Whitney “Tooey” F. Miller, and Edward H. Merritt. Our sincere condolences go out to each of their families. On a more joyous note: Each year the Swedish Nobel Foundation committee announces its prize winners for the past year. This year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to three persons, including Barry Sharpless ’63. Barry was my (Ray Neff’s) “Chem 52” lab instructor. Professor Paul Shafer taught the course in organic chemistry. About 40 of our class among others took this course that winter 1963 term with Shafer and Sharpless. After some 60 years, I still remember Barry taught me two things: how to rigorously clean lab glassware (is that why I do the dishes in my house to this day?) and, in a science career first for me, how to research previous work published and available in the library (later I earned a doctorate in science and this skill became second nature to me). Interestingly, Barry also won the chemistry Nobel in 2001. He is the only person in more than a hundred years to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. Perhaps other of our classmates in his lab that year may want to relate their remembrances of Barry and “Chem 52”? Best regards.

—Ray Neff, 3685 Fairway Dr., Norton Shores, MI 49441-7016; (616) 551-8595; rkneff@gmail.com; Robert C. Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com