I’m thrilled to announce that Rick Zimmerman and class president Steve Melikian will co-chair our 45th reunion June 16-19, 2022. The reunion will launch quite a year as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of our arrival on campus, the 50th anniversary of coeducation, the 50th anniversary of the Native American studies program, and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association (BADA). Let’s kick it off with a terrific 45th! Rick and Steve welcome your ideas and volunteer skills. Contact them via email: rick@rickzman.com and stevem@joneshall.com. Our amazing webmaster Joe Jasinski has reworked the class webpage (1976.dartmouth.org) so we can access all of our newsletters since graduation. It’s a treasure trove of classmate names and history thanks to the work of our nine distinguished editors of the last 45 years (in chronological order): Jay Josselyn, Judy Burrows Csatari (twice!), Nancy Kepes Jeton, the late Pam Gile, Bill Schillhammer, Steve Bell, Lynne Brooks, Martha Hennessey, and Jim Burns. Ted Scheu checked in with news that after 30-plus years he recently reconnected with John Britton ’75 and hopes to continue connecting with long-lost friends and classmates. Ted’s in Middlebury, Vermont, where he continues happily writing for kids and teaching writing in elementary schools. Ted’s teaching, hospice volunteering, travel to France, and grandparenting are all virtual at the moment. He and wife Robin enjoyed a “marvelous visit” with John Olsen and wife Kristie two summers ago in Seattle. He is collaborating with the mega-talented Peter Gergely on a picture book about bedtime. Our ever-dedicated gift planning (bequests) chair, Steffi Valar, reports that she has been traveling virtually with Road Scholar and the Smithsonian and non-virtually on snowshoes while exercising her new hip. She reads a lot and highly recommends Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman. Michael Shnayerson’s eighth book, Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, received praise from The New York Times (“fast paced and absorbing”) and The Wall Street Journal. Ken Mickens lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he spent more than 26 years as a lawyer for the Public Utility Commission. He writes, “I have been in private practice for about 12 years, focusing on public utility law and wills and estates. I get back to Hanover on a regular basis to attend BADA events.” He says the flexibility of private practice has allowed for quality time with his two grandkids as well as work on a $2.6-million church building project. David Lockard, who was married to my friend and dormmate, the late Katy Lebowitz, now lives in a world-renowned one-person house designed by architect Robert Venturi, known as Mother’s House or the Vanna Venturi house, in Philadelphia. The constant flow of curious visitors ebbed during Covid but David says the return of his and Katy’s adult kids has made up for any lull in activity. Read expanded versions of David’s and others’ news in Jim Burns’ next fabulous class newsletter. This 500-word limit is killing me, but do send news!

—Sara Hoagland Hunter, c/o DAM, 7 Lebanon St., Suite 107, Hanover, NH 03755; sarahunter76@gmail.com