Summer greetings to you and your families. Richard Wooster hosted a successful and well-attended N.Y.C. mini-reunion this past June at the Yale Club. Coach Buddy Tevens ’79 honored our class with his presence. Peter Pratt noted to me that our classmates have generously contributed more than $45,000 to Friends of Football. Buddy told me at a Dartmouth Club of Tampa reception in May that our financial support has enabled him to build a stronger football program and recruit top players. We hope they’ll be the caliber of the great players from our class. See my expanded class note in our class website, www.71.dartmouth.org for a list of all the N.Y.C. mini-reunion attendees. Pete Webster has kindly prepared the following write-up, titled “Lest the Old Traditions Fail,” on the Ledyard canoe trip down the Connecticut River to Old Saybrook, Connecticut: “On a Sunday morning this past May, 24 students, mostly seniors, pushed off from the Ledyard dock in their canoes to begin the 222-mile, seven-day journey down the Connecticut River to Old Saybrook at the mouth of the river on Long Island Sound. This tradition, dating back to the late 1950s, honors the intrepid John Ledyard, class of 1773, one of the College’s first dropouts and its most famous early American explorer. Ledyard felled a pine by the riverbank, hollowed it out, and set down the river to explore the world. The Dartmouth Club of Southeast Connecticut hosts the final day reception at the house of my brother, Bill ’65, right by the lighthouse, continuing a tradition started by my parents, Bill ’39 and Bunny Webster in the early 1960s. Each year this reception is the highlight for the local alumni club and gives area high school seniors, alums, and students alike the chance to mingle and enjoy a wonderful tradition. The class executive committee has placed this trip on the class mini-reunion schedule for early May 2019. Having done this trip myself as an undergraduate, and most recently with my youngest daughter the week after she graduated from college, a few days on the river paddling with this group will indeed make a great mini-reunion for classmates. And a wonderful way to get to know some students!” Here’s a link to see more about this year’s trip: www.news.dartmouth.edu/photos/galleries/2018-trip-sea. Congratulations to Art Hittner on the recent publication of his first novel, Artist, Soldier, Lover, Muse. It is a historical novel chronicling the life of a young, emerging artist in the New York art world during the late years of the Depression and run-up to World War II. Much more information is available at Art’s author website, www.hittnerbooks.com, as well as at Amazon.com. Art is pleased to note that the six reviews posted to date on Amazon are five-star. Janet Rosa retired from the College this past June. For many years Janet provided dedicated service to the Dartmouth College Fund and our class. Our class head agents Michael Maynard, Malcolm Jones, Sam Cuddeback, and Jim Rager greatly appreciated her expert guidance.

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