Tracking down a lead regarding an annual flotilla of the Dartmouth Club of the Virgin Islands I ran into Tom Zurich, a charter member of the club. If you want to join Tom and other members of the club, the only requirements to join are having visited or lived in the Virgin Islands at any point in your life and a willingness to pay $0 in annual fees. Annual meetings are held at the Pub, a local restaurant in Road Town, Tortola, the night before the flotilla heads out. Tom has a lot more to report on life in the islands. “I moved to the British Virgin Islands [BVI] in 1990 as a charter boat captain. Aside from a few years in Little Cayman in the mid-1990s I’ve been here every since. In my years as a boat captain I sailed to most of the islands in the eastern Caribbean and made a few trips from this area to the northeastern United States via Bermuda. My wife and I went to Tonga on our honeymoon, which is another place known for great sailing waters. I can honestly say that although Tonga is quite a bit more culturally exotic for a North American, the sailing isn’t as good as what we have here in the BVI. The waters are protected, the anchorages are calm, you can eat out most nights to avoid galley duty, there are plenty of anchorages with nightlife if you want it or nothing much at all if you prefer to truly get away from it all. We have a rental property here for anyone interested, www.villamatija.com, so we’re used to answering questions about the area.” Reunion: For the first time in 15 years we will cluster again with the classes of 1979 and 1980. The reunion will run from Thursday, June 18, through Sunday, June 21. The reunion committee is rounding out nicely, and in a gratuitous effort to get as many classmate names in the column as possible, here is your class of ’81 reunion committee: Rick Silverman, chair; Lynne and Bob Gaudet, food and entertainment; Claudia Sweeney Weed, treasurer; Julie Koeninger, souvenirs; Molly Sundberg Van Metre, Emil Miskovsky, Chip Bettencourt (another noted sailor), Veronica Wessels, Sally Ankeny Reiley, Cathy Haley Rost, Kirk Eveleth Arnold, Kim Young, Dennis Ryan, Danielle Dyer, Su-Moon Paik, Robin Smoller Sullivan, Jim Jankowski and Debbie Williamson. You know what they say about more hands—if you want to help, please let Rick or Lynne know. Congratulations to our class co-agents, Lon Povich and Martin Weinstein, for their great leadership of our Dartmouth College Fund-raising effort for the class in 2014-15. Our class raised an extraordinary $737,530 with 41 percent participation. For the second year in a row, we exceeded the largest non-reunion gift in our class history.


— Brian Cusack , 26 Ocean Ave., Marblehead, MA 01945; (617) 710-7228; briancusack13@gmail.com; Robert Goldbloom , 324 Warburton Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706; (914) 231-5117; robertgoldbloom@gmail.com