It has now been seven years since our last summer reunion in Hanover. Our 45th reunion will be held June 19-22, 2025, at the College. In the meanwhile, classmates creatively made their own reunions during the winter. Ted Winterer lives in Santa Monica, California, and works in real estate for Compass. He celebrated his 65th birthday by booking a Zoom with faraway friends, most of whom are Dartmouth alumni. “Few things would please me more than to catch up with old pals I haven’t seen often enough in the last decade or so,” he wrote. In attendance were Ben White, Paul Krupka, Jerry Bird ’80, Bud Stacy ’77, Kevin Sullivan, Steven O’Neill, Stanley Weil, Harry Griffith, Bill Stout ’77, Peter Renner ’78, Albert Ellis ’80, Charlie Vieth, Rich Pugh, Eric Copenhaver ’77, and Todd Scantlebury. After the Zoom, Ted enjoyed birthday dinner with his wife, Beck, and son Steele; daughter Eleanor was away at Amherst. Days later he enjoyed his Dartmouth ’79 regional mini-reunion.

Another mini-reunion was held in Park City, Utah, but this did not prevent Billy and Bray Mitchell from using the whole season to connect with a “’79 Blizzard” of skiers, starting with Park Cityites Dave Klinges, Ellen Oppenheim, Steve Morrison, Laurie Laidlaw Deacon, Sam Winebaum, and John Carson. Early visitors Duff Horton, Tim Higgins, Jon Orloff, Ed Heilbron, and Chris Campbell chose Park City for their annual group ski trip. Other visitors included Peggy Epstein Tanner, Michelle Lavigne, Andy Schoder, Burr Gray, T. Weymouth, Rick Katz, Laura Powers-Swiggett, Mark Horton, Megan Topping Horton, and Tom Tomai. Billy joined Bones Gaters Steve Franklin, Terry Gould (the only snowboarder among the lot), and Richie Brown as well as Dawn Hudson and Charlie Vieth in Colorado. Coinciding with the mini-reunion, Alpha Delta-Zeta Psi-Psi Upsilon alumni including Dave Wilson, Dave Springer, Carl Yerkovich, Mark Sullivan, Chase Ashley, and Larry Wolf came for their annual March ski trip. Beth Blatt, Anne Boulet, and Deb Jennings came for cross-country skiing and the mini-reunion. Others whom Billy regretfully missed skiing with were Mark Snyderman, who has retired near Snowbird; Holly Grainger Clark in Salt Lake City who helps adaptive skiers at Snowbird; Renee Diao Graham at Vail for CarniVail; Lizanne Galbreath skiing Big Sky, Montana; and former captain of the Dartmouth ski team Harry Griffith,who skis Sun Valley, Idaho. Yet all this contact gives Billy “hope for even more in-person connections next year.”

A couple of classmates living in Utah get “passes” for missing the reunion. Bill Hicks was at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. Cindy Vitko, M.D., was hard at work running the hospital in Park City.

Julie Weisman participated in “a fun mini-reunion here in Franconia, New Hampshire. I believe it was a first!” Participants included Steve Chardon, Doug Arion, Tim Sykes, Joan Crane Barthold, Polly Ingraham, Dave Van Wie, Rosa Van Wie ’11, and Cheryl Bascomb ’82.

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—Janie Simms Hamner, 7327 Centenary Ave., Dallas, TX 75225; jshandkids@aol.com