This from Pete Webster: “This past summer our class kicked off a four-year ‘mentoring’ program with the class of 2021, a relatively new tradition called ‘Class Connections.’ We met and interacted with about 120, or 10 percent of the class of 2021, in the College Grant during their first-year trips. Hard to believe in three and a half years we’ll be marching with these young people at their Commencement while we celebrate our 50th reunion. These ’21s were fortunate enough to be assigned trips in the Grant, and we were there to man the grills, cook and prepare dinners each evening. There were 10 groups of 12 trippers during a two-week period who came through, and we had a great contingent of ’71s perfecting their culinary techniques each evening as we set up in Sam’s Cabin. Willis Newton and Pete Webster were the coordinators for the program, ably assisted by Don Eberly, with Willis taking thefirst week and me handling the second week. The class of ’69 gave us great advice, loaning us much of the gear they’d purchased two years previously. Also helping out, usually for two to four days each, were Bernie Wysocki, Mark Totman, Peter Pratt, Steve Hoverman, Ron Harris and niece Ana Perdita ’09, John Hanley and wife Deb, Jeff Ashworth and wife Bonnie, Norm Webster, Tony Owens, Dave Ruml, Sheldon Perry, Parke Rublee, Jack DeGange, Martha Shanahan, Don Cutter ’73, Chuck Sherman ’66 and Dolly Cordin, an exchange student from our undergraduate years. We had the better part of each day to recreate, hike, canoe, mountain bike, fly fish or just veg out. Totally off the grid, no Internet or cell phones, a superb break from our too-connected modern lives. We’ll have many more opportunities to interact with this class prior to its graduation.” Nels Armstrong writes, “Each day is a blessing. I cross paths with John Orange and his lovely wife, Elsa, from time to time and look forward to catching up soon with Samuel Webster. Serving as president of the Hampton Road’s Dartmouth club keeps me feeling connected as well to our alma mater.” I was pleased to receive a letter from Craig Robelen, my freshman roommate in Gile Hall, who reports: “My wife, Lisa, and I have been living in Breckinridge, Colorado, for three years now. What a great place to live. Like Hanover, but higher and lots more snow. We are good friends with Tom and Lola Hancock,who live in Denver, and have run into many fellow alums from other classes on the ski mountains. The class of 1965 runs an annual CarniVail Dartmouth gathering of skiers in Vail each year that is lots of fun. We lived on a 51-foot sailboat based out of Jupiter, Florida, for four years prior to moving to Breckinridge. That was a blast. We have two married daughters who also live in Colorado and three grandchildren so far!” On a sad note, our classmate, Robert Uhlmann, passed away on October 23, 2017.

—Bob Lider, 9225 Veneto Place, Naples, FL 34113; liderbob@yahoo.com