Once again, news of your challenges and victories fills me with hope and admiration. Nessa Flax reports from her “piece of heaven in the Vermont woods” that having survived a subarachnoid hemorrhage in 2019, she wakes up every morning “grateful to be alive, able to go into my own kitchen and make my own cup of tea.” The ever-creative Nessa is doing a lot more than that. After a 25-year gig as a weekly columnist for the Journal Opinion newspaper, she still contributes a biweekly column and is busier than ever with freelance editing work. She writes, “I currently have three clients: a doctor writing his first novel, an 82-year-old woman writing her memoir, and a Ph.D. candidate completing her dissertation. It feels like a natural extension of the 16-year teaching career I left in 1993.” Bill Duke serves his small town of Andes, New York, as a yoga teacher and emergency services volunteer. He adds, “I go down to the city every four months where [periodontist] Matt Neary helps me keep my teeth in my head.” Jack Horak graduated from Notre Dame Law School in 1980 and spent 36 years in private practice in Hartford, Connecticut, as a specialist in tax exempt organizations. He “retired” in 2016 to help develop The Alliance for Nonprofit Growth and Opportunity (TANGO), creating partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit organizations to help nonprofit organizations thrive. Jack wrote TANGO’s training manual and continues to teach its methods in professional development settings. Jeff Zesiger’s career as a “family doc” has morphed into hospice work and palliative care. He writes, “It allows me to use my love of science, interpersonal skills, teaching (including some tricks learned from professor John Rassias), and yearning to bring some relief and even joy to those going through their toughest times.” Jeff and his artist wife, Dorien, who, Jeff says, “brings such beauty into my life,” worked for two years in a Seattle hospice residence before returning to their home base of Northampton, Massachusetts. Thanks to a class newsletter article from Jack Bothwell,Jeff was able to reconnect with Jack in Seattle. To read more inspiring news from both Nessa and Jeff, please check our website 1976.dartmouth.org and class newsletter. For your own reconnections, gather with us June 16-19, 2022. The growing group of enthusiastic planners led by Rick Zimmerman and Steve Melikian now includes Sharon Ali, Mary Kay Beach, Martha and Jim Beattie, Jim Burns, Judy Csatari, Rick Hill, Rich Horan, Joe Jasinski, Naomi Baline Kleinman, Andrea Lewis, Ann Paulson, Jeff Reed, Cindy Shannon, Tom Reinhart, Dana Rowan, Andy Shaw, John Sherman, Steffi Valar, Bruce York, and Randy White. Arrive early for a June 15 Moosilauke Ravine Lodge kickoff with hikes, food, friends, and all that lodge manager Margaret Nichols ’20, daughter of our very fun classmate Larry Nichols, can stir up.

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