Holiday greetings and a happy new (reunion) year. As I write these notes in October, we have 237 classmates on board, and only a few months to go to June 7-11—anticipation is building! Be sure to participate in the Dartmouth 1968 “Who Are You” experience. The results of this should be fun and informative. Log on at www.D68WhoAreYou.org. Registration number is 1968. You have until March 31 to participate, and could save up to 20 percent in reunion fees. Another thing to keep in mind is legacy planning, both for Dartmouth and your own families; Ed Heald has put together a very nice outline of options to consider. It is available on our class website. In response to the Gerry Bell challenge to all of us about our favorite professors at Dartmouth, and why, my own favorite profs include Hugh Morrison, who introduced me to architecture (and my eventual career), and Matt Wienecke, who introduced me to archeology, my favorite avocation. And I credit Paul Zeller, Glee Club director, for my lifetime enjoyment of choral music. How about you guys? During Columbus Day our mini-reunion dinner at Dowds’ Country Inn gathered John Engelman, Bev and Jim Lawrie, Helen and Peter Fahey, Don Marcus, Dave Walden, Joe Nathan Wright, Marti and Cliff Groen, Barbara and Jack Hopke, Sylvia Griffiths and Bill Rich, Ed Heald, Joanne and Roger Lenke, as well as Barbara and Bob Grant ’79. Don’t forget upcoming mini-reunion opportunities between now and June: skiing at Vermont in January, executive committee meeting (everyone welcome) in February during Winter Carnival, more skiing in Colorado in March and a Danube River trip to Hungary in April. Interesting statistics: In 1968, when we graduated, an average house cost $14,950, an average wage was $7,850, a new car was $2,822 and gasoline cost 34 cents a gallon. And our peers, born in 1946, include Tommy Lee Jones, Jimmy Buffet, Cher, Dolly Parton, Stephen Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone…and Donald Trump. We and our generation certainly have been living through a period of enormous change! Other assorted news: Tom Couser has recently published Letter to My Father: A Memoir. One reviewer noted “the narrative reveals a son struggling to maintain respect, even love, amidst temptations to anger and disillusionment.” Ed Schneider did not lose his home in Santa Rosa, California, in the massive fires, but did come close. We did hear parts of the Silverado Resort, where we have had mini-reunions, were affected. Deb and Dick Olson took a “journey of reconciliation” to Vietnam this past fall. Mark Waterhouse was noted on Facebook as “croquet champion”—of what? News of two more classmate deaths recently arrived: Dirk de Roos died of apparently sudden onset pancreatic cancer on July 1 in Greenwood Village, Colorado. And we received very belated news of the death of Land Washburn, who passed away January 14, 2014. Obituaries will be included in a future class newsletter and will be on the magazine and class websites.

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