Congratulations to the “Partycipatory” class of ’79 for setting another year-out Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) participation record. Thanks to the volunteer efforts of our class officers and our 75 class agents (do I hear 79 for the new fiscal year?), our dynamic support duo of Kim Frydman and Ban Waldrop in the DCF office and the generosity of 632 contributors, we captured the Raymond J. Rasenberger 1949 Award for most donors in a non-reunion class for the 18th time in the last 19 years! We owe a debt of gratitude to the anonymous challenge benefactors whose matching funds helped us surpass $1 million in non-restricted gifts and reach our non-reunion year 1769 Society high-water mark of 90 members, as well as to authors Gina Barreca, Carol Gieg and the “Boys of the Grant,” head coaches Buddy Teevens (football) and Bob Whalen (baseball), vintner David Jeffrey and wine investor Rick Magnuson, all of whom donated raffle prizes that helped us raise the fundraising bar yet again. Last but not least, we deeply appreciate the charitable giving of the nearly 200 classmates who raised an additional $553,000 for various “friends of” groups.

It is with great sadness that we must report the passing of long-time DCF supporter and beloved classmate Rachel Krevans. Rachel, always a winner in life, lost her courageous two-year battle with cancer on July 19. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Rachel’s family and friends. We encourage you to visit the ’79 website to read class historian Ben Riley’s moving tribute to Rachel on behalf of the class.

Judith Blake kindly responded to our milestone “happy birthday” email with the following good news: “I relished turning 60 on August 6, but I was also fortunate to have gotten together with former classmates to celebrate the 60th birthday of Laura Benjamin Heyward this summer. It was great seeing Laura, Danielle Dussek and Karen Lynch ’78, who I had not seen since my time at Dartmouth! On the personal front, I continue to enjoy working in N.Y.C. as a financial insurance manager and assistant vice president. My husband, Barry, and I are blessed to have raised two wonderful and intelligent daughters, Rachel and Jessica, both of whom graduated with honors from Princeton University and are now embarking on their careers. Rachel is a physician in her second year of medical residency in Boston. Jessica is a language translation specialist in New York.”

Infectious disease specialist David Perlman, one of my fellow first-year Lord Hall denizens and a former Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble member, turned 60 on March 30. David returned to Hanover in May to bid farewell to Don Glasgo, who retired after 40 years leading the acclaimed ensemble composed almost entirely of non-music majors. “Saw all sorts for the first time in decades, including Jason Forsythe, Jack Ringler, Michael Geilich, Bill Gottesman and Pete Desrosiers ’81. They had about 40 of us former coast folks join the current group on stage—it was quite an event, quite a scene.”

—Stanley Weil, 15 Peck Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; (917) 428-0852; stanno79@gmail.com; John Currier, 82 Carpenter St., Norwich, VT 05055; (802) 649-2577; john.h.currier@dartmouth.edu