The Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the scheduling of our class events and our daily lives. Two popular events, the Nantucket, Massachusetts, mini-reunion hosted by Alice Reno Malone, Michael Maynard, and Frank Anton and Homecoming, were canceled. Our great class football players on the undefeated 1970 team that won the Ivy League championship and Lambert Trophy were to have a celebratory weekend of events during Homecoming. I hope this football team reunion will be rescheduled at some future date in 2021 when the Ivy League football season resumes. Our classmates are resilient and resourceful while distancing during this pandemic. Willis Newton’s weekly Zoom call on Wednesdays continues to attract classmates who actively participate in a variety of topical discussions that impact the College and our country. Some of the recent discussions have included the disparity of school funding and quality of education; what courses we took and the professors who taught them; the lack of acceptable public discourse these days, including the difficulty of overcoming tribal differences on social issues and whether it’s possible to establish a healthy dialogue to mediate issue resolution. The College’s removal of Baker Library’s weathervane sparked wide-ranging comments from classmates who supported the College’s action. The consensus view was that the weathervane represented to Native Americans a “demeaning symbol by depicting Eleazar Wheelock sitting next to a barrel of rum while lecturing to a Native American student in a patronizing and stereotypical manner.” Our classmate comments and a Valley News article written by the College’s former president, James Wright, are more extensively covered in my expanded Class Note at our class website, 1971.dartmouth.org. What’s clear from email exchanges on the weathervane removal issue is that we have classmates who are eloquent and witty in expressing their views. There’s great bench strength for the position of class secretary following our 50th reunion. The Naples, Florida, mini-reunion hosted by Jim and Yola Rager is scheduled for February 4 -7, 2021. More information on this popular event to follow. CarniVail 2021 will be held in Vail, Colorado, the weekend of February 26-28 contingent upon the availability of a Covid-19 vaccine. The class dinner that weekend has been moved to Alm Resi at the top of Bridge Street. Contact Wayne Hobin at dreunion71@gmail.com for further details. We have only 84 percent of the emails for our class. We urgently need everyone to update their email information by going to https://alumni.dartmouth/edu/update-your-information. Tony Owens reports: “I live in Maine, where I’ve served for 12 years as a district enrollment director for the College. I continue to fish and hunt together with my best friend and our fellow classmate, Norm Webber, in New England at the Grant as well as during trips to Alaska and Canada.” Finally, I’m sad to report the passing of our classmates Frank C. Lord, Stephen F. White, H. Allen Rheem Jr., Benedict Joseph “Joe” Semmes, Thomas Armand Martinez, Robert William Hand,and Oz Griebel. “The hill winds know their names.”

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