Midwinter greetings to all. Light news lately…perhaps everyone is saving it up for in-person communications at the reunion later this year! June 13 through 16—mark it down! Henry Homeyer was profiled in two North Country newspapers about his new book Wobar and the Quest for the Magic Calumet. The story took shape in 1966 when Henry had a sophomore year summer job running a children’s recreation program in Saxtons River, Vermont. He had time remaining on one day’s program and lots of kids to entertain, so began to make up the story on the spot. Wobar, a boy with a mustache who can communicate with animals, and Roxie, a cougar, search for a long lost calumet, or peace pipe, that has been missing for 200 years. Henry, who has already written four gardening books, tried unsuccessfully to sell the Wobar story in 1982, when he returned from travel and work in Africa. The manuscript ended up in a drawer until 2005, when friend and columnist Nardi Campion loved it and restarted its travel to publishing. Arnie Resnicoff has been busy in recent months. In November he was a guest in Hanover at a Veteran’s Day remembrance breakfast and later addressed the student body on the topic of “Faith and Force: Religion and the Military.” He also penned an article for Veteran’s Day in the Washington Post. In addition he has been working on the February commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the event behind the Four Chaplains Day, the day when two Protestant, one Catholic and one Jewish chaplain gave up their lives to save others when the U.S. Army transport ship Dorchester was torpedoed by the Germans during World War II. John Melski is recovering nicely from liver transplant surgery and aiming his rapid improvement in part to attendance at the upcoming reunion. Professor Don Pease, our honorary class member, won the 2012 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Don has taught at Dartmouth for 40 years. Some interesting classmate activity noticed in Facebook: Gerry Bell solicited online votes, and got at least a few, in a mileage competition on LifeFitness equipment. I don’t know how he finished: He was in competition with someone who had lost 100 pounds. Dick Olson, lifetime United Auto Workers advocate, was proudly among the large crowds in Michigan opposing the Right to Work law. Marsha and Bill Adler shared pictures and a sense of awe about their recent visit to the Galapagos Islands and Quito, Ecuador. Their trip home included a flyover of an active volcano in Guatemala. Dave Walden moved from Georgia back to Hanover earlier this past year, giving him even more opportunities to work on class of 1968 activities. Jim Morrison praised the quality of the art in the Honolulu Museum of Art, particularly the Georgia O’Keeffe pieces. Thank you, Facebook. Incidentally, we now have 20 classmates on LinkedIn, another social media outlet. How about some more news, in any form!


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; davidbpeck@aol.com