Just because you shouldn’t live in the past doesn’t mean its not a nice place to visit. An apt description for our 50th reunion this past June. We all had a great visit. Four hundred and two classmates and guests gathered for some or all of five days to renew or establish friendships and learn where life’s journeys have taken them. Day one, for some, included a Moosilauke hike, with a knee-challenging (complaining?) trip up and back that took nearly seven hours. For some reason the mountain has gotten taller since our freshman trips. The rest of our time was in Hanover, featuring days of glorious weather and interesting activities throughout. We had thought-provoking seminars prepared by classmates, a virtual art gallery, an address by President Hanlon, talks by adopted classmate professor Don Pease and about-to-be adopted professor Jennifer Sargent, and an honorary degree for outgoing class president Peter Fahey. Peter also announced that our Dartmouth College Fund contribution this year would be more than $2.8 million, our freshman trip fund gift totaled more than $1.7 million, and counting bequests and professional school gifts a total of $49.6 million will be provided to Dartmouth from the class. Dan Hedges welcomed us to a Sunday evening cookout at his house overlooking the Connecticut River. And the class tent was busy all weekend with classmates and guests catching up for the last five or last 50 years and planning for the future. Watch the class website and newsletter for all the details and photos from a superb reunion. Thank you reunion chair Gerry Bell, reunion treasurer Dave Walden, and the full outgoing executive committee for your work during the past five years. We also had an election to establish our new posse of class officers: David Peck, president (tag, you’re it); Roger Witten, vice president, Dick Olson, secretary; Mark Waterhouse, newsletter editor; Bill Rich, mini-reunion chair; Parker Beverage, head agent; and returning officers Jim Lawrie, treasurer and webmaster; Ed Heald, gift planning chair; and Hugh Boss, alumni councilor. Past executive committee officers will be invited to continue as at-large members. Our first meeting is planned for Homecoming Weekend, the morning of Saturday, October 27, and all classmates are welcome. Location of the meeting to be determined; check the class website. Later, tailgating at Alpha Delta, the Harvard game, and then a dinner that evening at Dowds’ Country Inn in Lyme, New Hampshire. Some other classmate news to share. Gary Horlick was honored with the 2018 Who’s Who Legal Lifetime Achievement Award. After Dartmouth and Yale Law School (1973) Gary worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce and in private practice, specializing in international trade law. He also received the Trade and Customs Lawyer of the Year award an unprecedented nine years in a row. Tom Laughlin has published his second novel, The Other Side of the Lake; his earlier book was Absence of Intent. Both are available from major e-book retailers. With those final words, I turn the column over to new secretary Dick Olson, rwolson68@gmail.com.

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