Greetings, fellow ’70s. As I write this column two days after Christmas it’s 77 degrees here and I’ve just come from the golf course in shorts, of course. I’m beginning to think there might be something to this whole global warming thing. Despite a heartbreaking 1-point loss to Harvard we were still able to claim a share of the Ivy football championship. The class of 1970 was well represented in the stands and rewarded with a class tailgate and mini-reunion ably hosted by Star Johnson. Those in attendance beside Star included Wayne Osmond, Tom Peisch, Paul LeMarbre, Bob Mlakar, Joe Adams, Kim Cannon, Denny Brown, Kesang Tashi, John Hussey, John Lewis, Ernie Babcock, Bob Bergesch and Bob Stone (accompanied by his father, Ed ’41) as well as various spouses and significant others. Cannon gets the prize for traveling the farthest. Kim is an attorney in Sheridan, Wyoming, who just happened to be in Boston trying a case (a case of what, he didn’t say). Despite the game’s outcome the evening was, by all accounts, a great affair.

I would be remiss if I did not recognize the 2015 Dartmouth soccer team, which won the Ivy championship outright and made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Their exploits bring back memories of our classmates who patrolled Chase Field for four years under legendary coach Whitey Burnham: Greg Church, the late Mark Hebenstreit, Dave Irwin, Peter Linton, Rocky Nagel and my old Hanover High School classmate Fred Nitschelm.

Peter Logan reports having lunch with Tom Reddy and Bill Zarchy ’68; “a kind of Dartmouth-Foley House micro-reunion,” as he describes it. They recalled a prank from April 1968 in which Paul Ladenson, accompanied by members of “the press,” visited Smith College pretending to be Dustin Hoffman (shortly before the real actor was due on campus to speak against the Vietnam War). The Smithies fell for it, and the whole thing was chronicled in The Daily Dartmouth. Peter has posted that article on the class Facebook page.

I hope your 2016 is off to a good start. In looking back at my 2015 I realized it was the first year in 67-plus years on this planet that I did not spend a single minute in Hanover. I pledge not to let that happen again. See you in four months or so at reunion.

—Bill Wilson, 304 Highlands Bluffs Drive, Cary, NC 27518; wilson8689@aol.com