Spring has sprung. If you can, join the executive committee at their next meeting in Hanover on Green Key Weekend, Saturday, May 21. It’s a great time of year to be in Hanover (actually, any time of the year is a great time to be in Hanover!). The Big East ski trip 3.0 at Okemo Ski Resort in Vermont in late January was joined by Nancy and Dave Dibelius, Roberta and Dave Gang, Jackie and Gerry Bell, Cathy and Burt Quist, Bear Everett, Tom Enright, Peter Fahey, Steve Schwager, Rick Pabst, Bruce Seen, Allen Ott and Paul Rizzi. This is becoming a new tradition to match the western skiing mini-reunions. From my email box: Fred Gruder is still plugging away at practicing law (he notes that perhaps one day he’ll get it right and then retire). He also sees Dave Cooperberg (for whom he does some legal work), Roger Witten and Fred Price ’67 for lunch and occasionally with their wives. Roger, Fred ’68 and Fred ’67 are all still married to women they met and dated at Dartmouth. Steve Spitz has been practicing psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts since 1979. He plans to retire when the electronic medical record (EMR) hits the hospital, now scheduled for 2017. Interestingly, I’ve heard many physician friends of our generation and earlier say the same thing about EMRs. Steve married Cynthia Ingols in 1990. Cynthia is a professor at the Simmons School of Management. Vicki and Clark Wadlow spent three years designing, planning and building a new home on the Intracoastal Waterway near Wilmington, North Carolina. Son Ray ’95 is an oncologist in Fairfax, Virginia, with three kids. Son Tom has two kids, works for Amazon and lives in Portland, Oregon. Son Jeff ’98, who was head worker at our 30th reunion, has just finished directing The True Memoirs of an International Assassin, starring Kevin James, and is about to start a second movie, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, with Ryan Reynolds; both movies are due out late in 2016. And daughter Anne ’01 teaches Greek and Latin in high school and at Providence College. A very busy family! Dan Butterworth is working on an interesting project: a replica of HMS Victory, 10 feet long, that surrounds a wheelchair. It will be used in parades and theatrical productions.

We keep hearing continuing reminders of our mortality: James “Jock” Soper died in late December, plus we belatedly heard of the death of Bob Larson last year. Watch for the obituaries on the alumni magazine website. And as noted, I plan a series of quick online questionnaires about our class, who we are, our life experiences and to help in 50th reunion planning. I’ll share the results with all of you in this column and the class newsletter and, I hope, gather news to share. We now have two online surveys: surveymonkey.com/r/2N2HH6H and surveymonkey.com/r/DMKLMLB. Plus, keep the news coming in every way possible. No morsel of news too small!

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com