Happy holidays. A very busy fall for the class of ’68. Check out the class website and newsletter for detailed reports on the 65th birthday in Williamsburg, Virginia, in September with 20-plus classmates and the third annual Bandon Dunes (Oregon) golf trip in early November, which also saw 20-plus classmates and friends. Bill Kolasky, one of the duffers who attended, shared with me that Bandon Dunes is ranked the No. 1 golf destination in the country—we don’t accept second best! And the class website is also the go-to place for online auction of Frank Couper’s Dartmouth memorabilia (open to all classes, by the way—tell your friends). All to benefit our growing 50th reunion gift to support the freshman trips. Early October saw a mini-reunion and executive committee meeting in Hanover, with Ron Weiss, David Peck, Gerry Bell, John Engelman, Joe Nathan Wright, Peter Fahey, John Everett, Bill Rich, Jim Lawrie and Ed Heald gathered. The weekend featured the first-ever night game, against Penn. Exciting game, though Penn came from behind to win with less than a minute remaining. Looking ahead, the next skiing mini-reunion will be March 3 through 10 in Aspen, Colorado. Jim Noyes is now lead organizer (and thank you, Gerry Bell, for your years as chief cook and bottle washer). Rumor has it Hans Preben Mehren will attend, coming from Norway.


Our listserv site did indeed serve. Lots of news, which will fill this and future columns.


Paul Grace wrote from Seattle. He retired from the Port of Seattle after 18 years, the last five as operations manager for Sea-Tac Airport, but restarted his labor arbitration practice, begun in 1992. That doesn’t sound like retirement! He and wife Claire bought the house next door so they could expand their garden. The design follows the concept of a French potager or kitchen garden, which will be featured in an upcoming issue in Sunset. He and Claire recently spent three weeks in Turkey, highly recommended by Paul, with one week in Istanbul and two weeks on a gullet (ketch) along the coast visiting Lycian, Greek and Roman ruins. Now that sounds like retirement! Also enjoying 22-month-old grandson Hayden, who lives nearby with Paul and Claire’s daughter Margaret ’01 and son-in-law James Mills ’00. Second daughter Maryclaire lives in New York City. Kathy and Scott McQueen enjoyed a long, great summer on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and capped it off with 10 days in Italy on Lake Como. This also sounds like retirement! He played golf over the summer with partner Randy Odeneal at the Congressional Country Club in Washington, D.C., and is still trying to get his handicap into single digits. Scott has a Costa Rica property that is growing in popularity, elcastillodeesparza.com. Check it out!


And as always, keep the news coming. Listserv is great, and we are on Facebook and LinkedIn. And stamps still work, though I hear the first-class stamp is going up soon.


Have a great holiday season—see you next year.


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