Dear ’72s, Demetry Papadopoulos and wife Valerie, visited me and Barb for a week in Vermont. We toured Vermont during peak foliage and Demetry built a telescope for enhanced viewing of the planets and stars. On August 25 Barb and I had a delightful dinner in Boston with our adopted classmates Arthur and Sandra Irving. I thanked them for their transformational gift to Dartmouth. In Arthur’s typical fashion, he thanked our class for our class speakers project, saying: “The speaker series brings the new building to life in a manner that will engage Dartmouth students, faculty, and the greater community in important conversations about the best ways to create and deploy energy for the betterment of society.” Carol Zwick, our adopted exchange student, chairs our newly formed coed committee and wrote that she invites sisters, spouses, and others of our class to be in touch for outreach, special projects, mini-reunions, and get togethers. Thanks, Carol, for your enthusiasm and energy. Edward “Ted” Swan wrote that he and his wife of nearly 50 years, May Goldberg, from Wheaton College, have owned a condo in Pelican Bay, Florida, since 2005 but remain Illinois residents. I hope Ted’s property survived Ian’s wrath. Thanks to many classmates who have inquired about my Naples, Florida, condo. Fortunately, we were not directly impacted. The September/October edition of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine carried a segment about our greatest 100 athletes. Without taking away from any of the named athletes, I was shocked that our own Peter Broberg did not make the cut. Peter played basketball and was one of two starting pitchers who took Dartmouth to the quarterfinals of the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Peter had one of the best fastballs in history and a sharp curveball, among several other pitches in his arsenal. Peter was a first-round draft pick of the Washington Senators. The famous Ted Williams said that Peter would not pitch a day in the minor leagues and, in fact, is only the fifth player in baseball history to go straight to the major leagues without playing a day in the minor leagues. I closely followed Peter’s storied career. Perhaps the selection committee thought one Broberg was enough. Peter’s father, Gus ’41, was an All-American basketball player who was a three-time Ivy League scoring champ as well as an outstanding baseball outfielder. Gus Broberg gave his right arm in service to his country and Peter earned his way into Major League Baseball with his right arm. What a dynamic father-and-son team and bad call for the selection committee to omit Peter, in my humble opinion.

—Shel Prentice, 2311 Tradition Way, #102, Naples, FL 34105; shelprentice72@gmail.com