Grandma Moses started painting in earnest at 78, our class age this year. But the creative juices of ’66ers started flowing 60 years ago and give no evidence of slowing down. To wit, Nelson Lichtenstein, labor historian and research professor at UC Santa Barbara, is coauthor of A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism (Princeton), out this fall. Nelson reports the book explains in depth how Clinton’s policies led to the economic challenges of the 2000s and even how “Monica saved Social Security.” A must read.

James Lenfesty, former journalist turned essayist and poet, will have his eighth poetry collection, Body Odes, Praise Songs and other Oddities and Amazements, to be published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. More at coyotepoet.com.

Jim Lustenader’s 13 black-and-white photo series Times Square Nocturne was recently exhibited at Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.

Our sympathies to the family and friends of the following classmates who have sadly passed away recently: Chris Coombs, who spent a career in technology management, notably with the leading fire helmet manufacturer; Richard Naylor, a New Mexico-based geologist; Dr. Douglass Norwood, a Moravian Church pastor who conducted extensive missionary work in South America; Augustus “Buzz” Platt, a Fryeburg, Maine, family lawyer; Allan Ryan, who gained national attention as “the nation’s foremost Nazi hunter” when head of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations in the early 1980s; and Clement Wyson, who enjoyed the wildlife around his New Jersey home.

These brief comments do not remotely do justice to the diverse, productive, and loving lives our classmates led. Please find more fulsome remembrances on the class of 1966 and DAM websites.

—Larry Geiger, 93 Greenridge Ave., White Plains, NY 10605; (914) 860-4945; lgeiger@aol.com