We remain a class with many classmate gatherings, both past and future. The second annual Return of the Green cruise and mini-reunion splashed around the Virgin Islands last May. Classmate crew included Adm. Gerry Hills and able seamen Norm Silverman, Jack Hopke, Jim Lawrie, Gerry Bell and Larry Griffith, plus Kevin Swenson ’71, Wayne LoCurto ’66, Tom Zurich ’81, Dave Boyle ’69, Bill Ernst ’65 and Tom Webster ’65 honorary. The group enthusiastically created the Dartmouth Alumni Club of the Virgin Islands, recently recognized by the College as the newest alumni club. They are planning a third annual cruise May 10 through 19, 2015—all classes welcome. Late August and early September will see the Class Connections events in the College Grant and on September 10 in Hanover. And later in September at least 14 classmates plus their guests will gather in New York City for the “’68s Turn 68” theater weekend, for a show called Kinky Boots on September 19. Deadline has passed for ordering tickets through Ed Heald (unless you get them on your own), but more classmates are welcome for other events during the weekend. And further into the fall: Hanover mini-reunion during the weekend of October 4, with a home football game against the University of Pennsylvania. Executive Committee will meet that Saturday morning (everyone welcome!) and plan for the usual pregame tailgate party and a class dinner that evening. November will see the annual golf event at Bandon Dunes, Oregon, November 2 through 6. Check the class website for details on any and all of our planned events.


Mary and Chris Mayer attended youngest son Luke’s college graduation in May, after which Chris and two friends motorcycled around the Southwest for eight days. Chris prayed that “all parts stay in place and functional (my parts, not the BMW’s).” And this August oldest son Zach ’10 will be marrying Lindsay Dean in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Steve Small, who has been a widower twice, married last fall to Judy Herman and lives just outside Philadelphia. Both Judy and Steve are retired and take great pleasure in visiting their blended family of children and grandchildren, plus considerable traveling. Steve also spends time volunteering, playing tennis and taking classes he never had the time or was afraid to take at Dartmouth. Jim Snyder still works full time as an in-house attorney for Edwards Vacuum, which generously allows him to work two days a week remotely from home in Parsippany, New Jersey, in the winter and from Barnegat Light, New Jersey, in the summer. He and wife Sarah (Mount Holyoke ’71) have been married for 44 years. Both are very active, with Sarah running half marathons and Jim biking. And they have become serious mountain hikers, with the Swiss and Austrian Alps and the Dolomites on their resumes and Pyrenees planned.


Sad news for the obituary files: George Moore and Bill Kendall both passed away earlier this year. Watch the class newsletter and the alumni magazine website for details.


—David Peck, 54 Spooner St., Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com