As you may know, President Hanlon ’77 and Cheryl Bascomb ’82, alumni relations VP, announced the cancellation of on-campus reunion events in June, including our 50th reunion. Cheryl advised Peter Pratt and me in a subsequent call that we couldn’t reschedule our on-campus 50th reunion later in the year due to logistics; for example, dorm rooms and other College facilities weren’t available since students would be attending the fall semester. President Hanlon’s announcement further clarified that only graduating seniors would be allowed on campus to celebrate Commencement. Their family members and friends won’t be able to attend. The College hasn’t set the date of Commencement as of February 20. Stay tuned for Peter’s announcement on a number of pre-Commencement virtual events in June leading up to Commencement, including a Kemeny legacy panel discussion; a remembrance service to honor our fallen classmates; a class meeting for announcement of awards, new officers, and class gifts to the College; a panel discussion on “where do we go from here”; and our class’ limited possible participation in Commencement. Our first scheduled in-person mini-reunion this year will, we hope, take place during Homecoming, October 8-10. Malcolm Jones will host virtual wine events on March 24 (Chappellet Vineyards), April (to be determined), and May 4 (Donum Vineyards). Class dinner events may be held later this year in Seattle, N.Y.C., and San Francisco (to be determined). Class notifications will confirm these events. Editing of the 50th reunion yearbook will be finished in February. Page proofs and printing will be completed in April, followed by the yearbooks mailing to all classmates in May. This hardcover magnum opus has more than 1,000 pages. More than 460 classmates contributed to it either by updating their profiles or submitting essays (372 at last count). Alice Reno Malone, Mike Brooks, and Roger Prince researched and wrote 125 obituaries of our fallen classmates. The College will receive two checks from our great class to celebrate our 50th reunion. The first check will include contributions to the Dartmouth College Fund (DCF), which presently total $905,000. The three amigos (Michael Maynard, Malcolm Jones, and Sam Cuddeback) have an aspirational DCF goal of $1.71 million. Keep donating! The second class check will be an aggregate amount of all other class contributions to the Call to Lead, Dartmouth athletics, and major class gifts and projects. The ’71 Dickey-Rassias scholarship program is a major class gift that will endow 12 annual scholarships for studies abroad. The class has raised $665,000 toward a $1-million goal. Class funding of the West End project has already reached its $5-million goal. This innovation neighborhood lab for Tuck and Thayer is to be named “The Class of 1971 Emerging Technologies Lab.” A video will be posted to our class website, 1971.dartmouth.org, that will include testimonials from Ron Harris and Mike Ross on the significance of this College project. Go to our class website to read the expanded Class Note for May/June that includes updates on class events and other news.

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