Everyone is welcome to come to a mini-reunion in Hanover during Columbus Day weekend: Be there! Andrew Winter was recognized by the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) for his many years of service to the association and the Foreign Service, both during his career and in retirement. He served eight years as chairman of the AFSA finance, audit and management committee, helping direct strategic investments; Andy also served on its scholarship committee. During his 30-year career in the Foreign Service Andy served as a deputy assistant secretary in three countries, traveled to more than 100 countries and was an ambassador to Gambia. He noted in our 40th reunion book that he survived two coups d’état and two death threats. Tom Couser and wife Barbara Zabel are happily enjoying life since retirement in 2011. Tom writes, reads work in his field (English and disability studies), referees journal articles and lectures. He’s given talks in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil as well as here in the United States. Barbara, who taught art history at Connecticut College, teaches courses at local museums in Old Lyme and New London, Connecticut, enjoying her enthusiastic older students and the fact that she doesn’t have to read papers and give grades. Tom is also an active member of New London Landmarks, a local nonprofit. One favorite activity on the nonprofit’s behalf: plaque research, searching out the histories of old houses and their owners for inclusion on plaques. He’s rediscovered the pleasures of hockey (“the new golf”). Both Barbara and Tom enjoy sea kayaking on Long Island Sound, the rivers of southeastern Connecticut and off the Maine coast. Susan and Terry Lichty were in Hanover in May, as part of the Connections Program, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of their meeting at a Choate Road dormitory on May 2, 1965. Three classmate books arrived in my mail recently. Jim Henle authored The Proof and the Pudding: What Mathematicians, Cooks and You Have in Common (Princeton University Press). One reviewer noted that the book explores “the natural connections between mathematics and cooking, and reveals how both can be creative, fun and memorable.” Jim teaches math and statistics at Smith College. Steven Reiss will be publishing The 16 Strivings for God: The New Psychology of Religious Experiences (University of Mercer Press). Steven reports the book puts forth the first, new comprehensive theory of religious experience since William James. Steven is an emeritus professor at Ohio State University. And Stephen Jenkins,who retired in 2011 from the University of Nevada, recently produced Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology, (Oxford University Press),in a way a companion piece and sequel to his 2004 book, How Science Works. Hank Paulson coauthored an article titled The Blame Trap, in a recent Atlantic magazine. And, unfortunately, two death notices arrived: John Hamer reported that Greg Fetler passed away in April of cancer, and Tom Russian passed away in May. For further details, check the alumni magazine and class website.

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