It’s fall now and we are really in the countdown to our 50th. Don’t be that guy Mark Twain was talking about: “Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off to the day after tomorrow.” Don’t be a procrastinator. Do, therefore, put June 7 through June 11, 2018, in your calendars. And, of course, there will be plenty of other events between now and then. Our fall mini-reunion just happened, during the weekend of October 7. Check the class website for info on the Vermont ski mini-reunion in January at Okemo, Vermont; at Snowmass in Colorado in March (incorrectly noted as Mammoth Mountain in last column); and another Danube-Budapest trip in April-May. One 50th reunion event I want to push (since I am the coordinator) is creating a virtual art gallery for classmates and their significant others. Digital images of all kinds of art will be assembled and run on a flat screen strategically located at one of our reunion venues. If you are interested in helping or contributing, please let me know. Eric Hatch has already indicated he will be helping and participating. He also will be having his first solo photography exhibit from this coming December 6 through February 1 at the Middletown, Ohio, Arts Center. Arnie Resnicoff delivered the prayer to open the U.S. House of Representatives pro-forma session once in August, once in September. Overall he has been honored to give an opening prayer to the U.S. House or U.S. Senate 11 times. In spite of his Dartmouth credentials, he’ll be the guest speaker at the Harvard Memorial Church for Veteran’s Day. Daughter Malka is a lawyer and has become active in politics since she took part in the Women’s March shortly after the inauguration. Son-in-law Justin started a cybersecurity firm, along with two friends, and the firm is doing well. Arnie has two grandsons, Simon (4) and Elliot (2). In addition, Arnie has a most interesting website, outlining multiple milestones in his professional life as a rabbi and officer in the U.S. Navy. Margaret and Peter Zack spent two weeks camping and hiking on New Zealand’s South Island. By the time you read these notes, the Zacks will have grandchild No. 2, a grandson, from daughter Sanno and her husband, Ed Scott. Gerry Bell has started a fun class question on his Facebook page: What were the most valuable courses and who were the most influential professors you had at Dartmouth? For Gerry, Don Kreider’s math classes led directly to a career in actuarial analysis. Rogers Elliott’s Psych 10 class helped him understand human motivation and Mike Choukas’s Sociology 43 helped him understand propaganda and fine-tune Gerry’s bullshit detector. News of two more classmate deaths recently arrived: Pete Ginder died of a heart attack on February 7 in Anchorage, Alaska, and David Engelbretson died July 8 in Redlands, California. Obituaries were included in the most recent class newsletter and will be on the magazine and class websites.

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