Our class connections co-chairs Norman Jacobs and Dona Heller reported on the perspectives program, which launched in September. The program is a three-year series of career and life-path panel discussions with the ’19s and any other interested undergrads.

The first two sessions were on the fields of medicine and education. The medicine panel was led by Peter Lawrence, Peter Elias and Pete Anderson. The trio addressed several dozen students about their experiences in practicing medicine and took questions from the audience. The education segment included Jim Staros, Bill Berentsen and Rick Willets with two ’11s who benefitted from Dartmouth’s department of education joining the panel. Both gatherings created successful interaction with our connected ’19s and will be followed by many more similar projects.

Larry Ebner used our new electronic Green Card to write a note describing his most recent move after spending 42 years with what has become the world’s largest law firm. He started his own Washington, D.C.-based appellate litigation boutique, Capital Appellate Advocacy, focusing on representing businesses and industries in high-stakes civil appeals, particularly cases involving federal interests or civil justice issues. Beyond business, he and Barbara are spending time with family including two grandchildren. Use of this method of communicating with us is easy and should be used by many of you to keep us updated.

Homecoming this year was very late in October, so there will be no news from that gathering until the next column. We hope a lot of our former professors will appear at the functions organized for them, the football team will emerge triumphant and all will have a wonderful fall weekend.

I received a long note from Ted Baehr describing the many successes of his family as well as some of the trials. He is still active in the media world, publishing Movieguide, with readership now beyond 34 million as well as the Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala & Report to the Entertainment Industry and receiving requests for their content from radio and TV networks. His bride, Lili, despite struggling for 21 years with an autoimmune disease, has designed their new offices for the television and radio studios and son Robby is aiding in the family business. Son Jim is moving to a prime prosecution position in the U.S. attorney’s office in New Orleans and eldest son Peirce and his wife are heading to Tasmania, Australia, to build their artist and faith retreat on a spectacular mountaintop. In Ted’s words, “Sometimes are we too old for all this grace?”

Bill Shade, still in Illinois after all these years, sent me a request to correct the obituary for Charles Fitz-Gerald, in which I failed to include among Fitz’s survivors his wife of more than 35 years, Chris. I apologize for the oversight, Christine.

We regret to report the passing of Maynard “Tuck” Miller Jr. in October of this year.

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—Steve Larson, 465 Miller Road; Winchester, VA 22602; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@outlook.com