Now that I am back inside the Beltway, I am reconnecting with friends old and new. Watched the Washington Nationals trounce the Florida Marlins on a beautiful Sunday in early May with Gerry Widdicombe and his brother Toby. Gerry continues his dedicated work as director of economic development for Downtown D.C., and gave us a wonderful personalized tour of revitalized southeast Washington after the game. And at the Dartmouth Club of Washington’s annual Daniel Webster dinner in late May (this one honoring Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ’83) I bumped into Steve Strauss, who recently relocated to D.C. after many years in New York. And I got a great e-mail from Rick Bennett: “After many years on the full-time faculty at Johns Hopkins in the division of geriatric medicine, for the last two years I have been the president of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a growing academic medical center and formerly Baltimore City Hospitals (the ‘s’ is correct). After returning to Baltimore for medical school, I began my internship at the municipal hospital in 1982.”


In other news, your class officers are planning for the class mini-reunion on the weekend of November 5, featuring the dedication of the 1978 Life Sciences Building, Events are planned for Friday evening, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon (in addition to the home game against Cornell), more stuff Saturday evening, and even more Sunday morning. So please come for any part of it. If you haven’t been to a reunion recently you’ll be amazed at what a great group of people your classmates have become. 


Also, check out the class website, www.dartmouth.org/classes/78. It has actual pictures and the latest, greatest stuff about what our class and classmates are doing. No purchase required.


Finally, I’m always asking for news about classmates, but rather than poach material from our class page on Facebook, I have opted for a more scientific approach—taking a note from our world-class class agents, I’m starting to send out directed e-mails asking for Class Notes-worthy material. Of course, if you haven’t got a current e-mail address in the College’s alumni directory, I’m going to be wasting a lot of electrons, so please take pity on your class secretary and either update that e-mail address or better, send me something about yourself. 


And FYI, you might be unaware that the deadline for class secretaries to get our columns into the magazine is a full six weeks before you see the magazine in your mailbox. So for future reference, please get your stuff in to me before the 28th of August, October, December, February, April and June, and you’ll see it in the next issue. And don’t make me come after you!


—Dave Hov, 6742 Towne Lane Road, McLean, VA 22101, (571) 643-8040, davidthov@gmail.com