Santa Fe, New Mexico, here we come! Our dream birthday party is becoming a reality! In case you’ve missed the class newsletter or emails and calls from friends or the last magazine column, here’s what’s happening: We’re celebrating our 65th birthdays on the 250th day of Dartmouth’s 250th year with camaraderie, conversation, culture, and catch-ups September 6-8 in scenic Santa Fe! The kick-off party is Friday night at La Posada de Santa Fe hotel, class headquarters for the weekend, where mini-reunion chair Jim Beattie has reserved discounted rooms through the following link, www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1549922126377&key=GRP (discount rate available September 3-11 for early arrivals and late lingerers). Reservations made by May 15 will be entered into a drawing for a king suite upgrade with fireplace! Email jbeattie45@gmail.com if you have any problems reserving. Plans are underway for golf with Andy Shaw, art and architecture tours with Carol Vaughan Bemis and Julie Miner, cycling with Rick Hill, guided city tours coordinated by Naomi Baline Kleinman, a customized shopping hot spot list from Santa Fe regular Julie Miller Shepherd,and an off-campus class dinner Saturday night. Here’s hoping Craig Reininger will reprise his reunion hiking leader role too! Classmates coming so far: Carolyn Allenby, Martha Johnson Beattie, Jamie Bergford, Cathy Joyce Brennan, Jack Brennan, Lynne Brooks, Brewer Doran, Kathy DeGioia Eastwood, Inky Ford, Nancy Steward Freidl, Bob Freidl, Amanda Green, Donna Humphrey, Sara Hoagland Hunter, Joe Jasinski, Jody Karp and Dave Magnus, Gretchen Kent Kerr, Andrea Lewis, Gary Love, Steve Melikian, Dave Robbins, Bill Saubert, Tom Souza, Annie Stockmar Upton, Steffi Valar, and Randy White. Kipp Barker, Anne Johnson, Paul Lazarus,and Tish O’Connor hope to make it as well. Amy Gillenson, who splits time between homes in New York City and Umbria, Italy, with her Italian-born husband, will skip the olive harvest this year to make it to the mini-reunion. How about a 2020 reunion in Umbria? Congratulations to Louise Erdrich, named one of the 25 most influential graduates in the 250-year history of the College by a panel of Dartmouth faculty. Check out Peter Stark’scool interviewon NPR with Ari Shapiro about his enduring tale Frozen Alive, one of the most requested stories on Outside magazine’s website for the last 20 years. My request for grandparent names yielded two Grandpas (Kenneth Carr Wright, Mike Chapman), aGrandma (Beth Howard Wilkens), multiple Mimis, including Pat McClendon and Jim Burns’ wife, Marion. Bob Deason is Papabob. Bob Cline is soon to be Bob-Bob. Bob Freidl is PopPop and Kirk Barker is Bebop. Noel Kropf’skids call his parents Sabba and Savta (Hebrew for grandparents). Both Marc Lacasse and Lois Gadway Tow honor their French Canadian roots. Marc’s kids called his parents Pépère and Mémère. Lois called her great-grandparents Mémé and Pépé. My favorites were Grumpy Moose (Bruce Wilkens) and Not Puppy (Joe Jasinski, whose grandson remains smitten by Joe’s puppy).

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, 72 Mount Vernon St., Unit 4B, Boston, MA 02108; sarahunter76@gmail.com