You all will likely be reading this around the year-end holidays. If so, I wish you all a very happy new year and hope to see you at our 45th in Hanover June 13-16. I suspect that our class treasurer, Jeff Sassorossi, would think very kindly of you if you were to pay your class dues well in advance of this blessed event. The dues support the work of our class and go a long way to making the reunion a memorable event.

I am sure you will begin to receive numerous mailings about our reunion and the various events. I am not sure I have the energy to plan a full-blown supported bicycle ride, but I am hopeful of getting my hands on a bike and heading out for a jaunt while I am there. I have to redeem myself for the failed mini-reunion bike ride earlier this year. It was anticipated to be such an amazing event that Kevin McGillicuddy chimed in with, “I’ll notify the Austin City Council. They’ve been depending on the hotel tax revenue.” Let me know if you want to ride in Hanover that weekend, maybe we can get a gang together. It is a short ride over to the Etna Store and I think they sell beer.

A recent note from Coleman Tuggle follows: “I stopped off this summer, for the third or fourth time, to visit our classmate and my fellow TriKap Nick Hunt and his wife in Atlantic, Iowa, where he has a third-generation farm, growing 2,000 acres of corn to fatten 2,500 head of cattle (he’s halfway to Denver, where my daughter lives, so it breaks up our trips to visit her). Pretty amazing seeing where your food comes from—and where some ’75s ended up (his dad went to Dartmouth as well). I think he’s also planning to be at the reunion.” Well there are two reunion-goers!

How about those 6-0 footballers! Can they go all the way—or did I just jinx them.

Vox clamantis in Tejas.

—Stephen D. Gray, 3627 Avenue M, Galveston, TX 77550; (650) 302-8739; fratergray@gmail.com