One year away and counting: Our 45th reunion will be June 13 to 16, 2013, in Hanover. Save the date, which will include the musical efforts of a special occasion band of 1968 and 1969 hits now being assembled, tentatively called the Flagrent Neglect(s). Pete Wonson is coordinating. Be there, to play, sing, dance or listen. Another date to save next year: Larry Griffith shared the plans for the class ski trip March 2 through 9 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Thirty have already signed up. A little closer in time, 40 years of sculpture by David Strohmeyer will be exhibited in the Burlington, Vermont, City Arts Center from June 29 through September 8, with exterior pieces exhibited in City Hall Park through the end of September. His pieces are in private and public collections around the country, including the 3,284-pound yellow fin in the Los Angeles Omni Hotel lobby, to Tool de Force, a 13-by-17-by-18-foot painted steel work now in the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. He and Sarah plan a trip to the Amalfi coast in Italy this summer with dear friends Karen and Andy Epstein. David lives and works on a 190-acre farm in Enosburg Falls, Vermont. Gene Mackles won the 2012 Mensa Select Mind Game competition with his new game Iota. It joins the ranks of past winning games including Set, Scattergories, Trivial Pursuit and Taboo. Congratulations, Gene! Dave Berengren visited Hanover recently, with an eye to visiting new construction projects. Stops included the recently renovated Class of 1953 Commons (old Thayer Hall), the new snack bar at the front of Baker Library, the new Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center and the new softball field. He capped off his visit with breakfast at Lou’s. And didn’t yet see the newly renovated Hanover Inn or the new arts center, still in construction. Hey, guys, all good reasons to come to our reunion next year! Michael Ryan wrote, from his iPhone (!) from Morocco, where he is on a Dartmouth study tour led by professor Ron Green. He heartily recommends these, as a congenial group from multiple classes, sharing lots of Dartmouth memories. His wife, Phyllis, has been in assisted living with Alzheimer’s, and the last few years have been tough. This Morocco trip has been his first solo trip, and a wonderful pick-me-up. George Bruns retired from full-time commercial banking in 2007 but still does banking training on a part-time basis for the Risk Management Association. He and Karen enjoy their 259-year-old house on the Saco River in Saco, Maine, but spend four months a year in Kauai, Hawaii. Does that make them pineapple birds instead of snow birds? They have two grown children and five grandchildren, all in nearby Massachusetts. Keep the news coming.


—David Peck, 157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA 02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@ childrens.harvard.edu