Happy holidays to all. Six months to our 45th reunion, which will be in combination with the class of 1969. We hope you can make it: June 13 through 16. And an update to last month’s column: If you are interested in the May Virgin Island cruising, contact Norm Silverman at norman.silverman46@gmail.com. His other account got hacked. Now the recent mail: Pete Stevens wrote (for the first time in 44 years, he pointed out). He is currently professor of orthopedics at the University of Utah, specializing in pediatric deformity correction. He developed a means of correcting limb deformities (an eight-plate), which in addition to his teaching has created opportunities for international travel, lecturing and medical charity work in Bolivia, Bhutan and Sierra Leone. He met his wife, Gayle Maroney, at a Gamma Delt mixer in 1966, and they were married for 38 happy years until she tragically died in an automobile accident in 2008. They had two children: Colin, an inventor and musician, and Caitlin, an artist and designer, both of whom live nearby in Salt Lake City. No grandchildren yet, Pete noted. New happiness in hand: He married Susan Dolan this past September; she has an M.F.A. from University of Utah and is a screen and stage actor and director. Pete and Susan are downsizing into a LEED-certified home, now in construction in the high foothills overlooking Salt Lake City. Not quite ready for retirement, he reports, as he anticipates another five years or so of teaching, travel and practicing orthopedics. Dick Patrick was honored with the 2012 Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to hockey in the United States. After Dartmouth, where he played hockey, he got his law degree at American University. He has been president of the Washington Capitals hockey team since 1982, and spearheaded the construction of the Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the Capitals’ training facility and home to many youth hockey programs. Note: The Lester Patrick Trophy was named for Dick’s grandfather, but I’m sure that had nothing to do with the award. Dick’s accomplishments speak for themselves. Eric Hatch has released a new book: Explorations in Photography. According to the press release, the book is intended for advanced amateur photographers, covering topics from buying equipment to editing photographs, from taking people pictures outdoors to handling nasty lighting situations. It is available on Amazon. Bill Adler was yanked from retirement in California, and from improving his golf game, with a one-year fellowship at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. in international communications and information policy. He’ll work on global telecommunications satellite matters and cybersecurity. He and Marsha will use his son’s Dupont Circle digs, as coincidentally, his son is off to Boston for an executive M.B.A. at MIT at the same time. Marsha will look for some consulting work and reconnect with old friends left behind when they moved to California in 1996.


News always welcome, don’t be embarrassed to write even if it has been 44 years! And don’t forget next June.


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