Another Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) campaign is in the books, and for the 20th consecutive year the “Partycipatory” class of ’79 captured the Raymond J. Rasenberger 1949 Award for most donors in a non-reunion class (607) while also setting year-out records for dollars and participation (62.9 percent). On behalf of the class leadership team, our thanks go out to everyone who made Dartmouth part of their charitable giving mix, including all those who donated to a Dartmouth friends program. Special thanks also go out to Kim Frydman and Rut Mendoza, our dedicated partners in the DCF office; our indomitable volunteer class agent corps; our anonymous DCF challenge benefactors; and our generous raffle prize contributors Gina Barreca, Carol Gieg, David Jeffrey, Todd Scantlebury, Buddy Teevens, Bob Whalen, and the boys of The Confluence—Ed Baldrige, adopted classmate Bob Chamberlin, Bill Conway, Dave Klinges, Phil Odence, Norm Richter, and Dave “Guy” Van Wie.

Congratulations to Chip Debelius and Channing Lynn, “two curious and passionate designers,” who tied the knot on August 11 in Watauga County, North Carolina. Our wish for Chip and Channing is that the canvas of their new life together be filled with vibrant watercolors.

We were so pleased to hear from Arlington Economic Development director and first-time Class Notes contributor Victor Hoskins, who wrote: “My wife and I just returned from a trip to London and Paris, where we celebrated our anniversary and my [61st] birthday and got to dine at Le Jules Verne restaurant at the Eiffel Tower. Time flies when you are having fun! We feel so blessed and so appreciative of the life we have been given. Be well and laugh often—it heals the soul and makes you younger.” When asked what anniversary he and Diane were celebrating, Victor replied, “We just call it the first.” And to that we say, “Well played!”

Cindy Marder Calder, a mere puppy compared to Victor, responded to our August 4 birthday well-wishes with some ’round-the-girdled-earth news: “I am in Tuscany, Italy, for my 60th. Had lunch with Tim Prager and his two brilliant (adult) children yesterday and am having lunch with Eleanor Shannon tomorrow. Great ’79 friends are everywhere!” Cindy teaches Latin at Trinity School in N.Y.C. and tutors students of all ages for Latin and Greek during the school year, then dons her Calder Classics cape in the summer months to “offer high school students interdisciplinary Latin and Greek language programs abroad.”

With gladness came sadness this summer due to the unexpected passing of Proctor Reid (June 20) and Dave “Emmett” Hall (July 17), whose deaths feel especially poignant considering we’ve now lost 40 classmates just eight months shy of the 40th anniversary of our graduation. We encourage you to email reminiscences to class historian Ben Riley (briley@bzbm.com), so that they may be added to the obituaries posted on the “In Memory” page of our class website (www.1979.dartmouth.org).

Please join us at our milestone 40th reunion June 17-21, 2020, to celebrate friends here and gone.

—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