I was very happy to hear from Richard Morell, who writes: “I’ve been in a loving relationship with my partner, Simcha Pollard, for 18 months now. Simcha has taught economics at the university level off and on and has been an administrator with Trident University, among other things. He hails from San Francisco. We bought a house together in Laramie, Wyoming. (For those who don’t know, I ended up in Laramie seven years ago at the tail-end of a spiritual odyssey that included living in a couple of intentional communities in the South and attending the Rainbow Gathering in Montana that year. Someone I met in Montana said I should have an open mind, despite Laramie’s history as the site of a hate crime, and I’m glad I did. It’s my ‘Big Eden.’) Simcha and I also have two dogs, Junior and Bowser, and a cat named Baxter we inherited from the previous owner. We just love it here in Laramie. I’ve been doing local theater, still keep my hand in acting. I was most recently Torvald in a reading of Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part 2 and also played a polar bear in an environmentally conscious Christmas play performed in nearby Centennial, Wyoming. (Nothing compares though to playing Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest a few years back. I was born to play that role!) Also, I’m still writing screenplays and plays, working on a gay romantic comedy set here in Laramie and a couple of other projects, and I’m having fun as a volunteer alumni ambassador, interviewing kids applying to Dartmouth! I’ve talked with a couple of bright young people who are inspirations. Life is good!” Pamela Taylor shares exciting news: “I just found out I’m going to become a grandmother. My eldest (a ’12) is due in late September! So exciting! In other news, I’m now working in development with the Cincinnati Youth Choir and playing cello with the Cincinnati Civic Orchestra, one of the oldest community orchestras in the country.” Steven Stichter writes, “After dozen years of tracking hurricanes around the globe and providing real-time hurricane hazard and impact information through a startup that I cofounded in 2006, I hired a replacement for my role as CEO early in 2019 to get back to questions of how we can reduce risk and vulnerability to current and future natural hazards. And, as of January, I’m excited to be doing just that as director of the Resilient America program at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. I’ve been in D.C. for more than 20 years now, the last 15 with my husband, Mark Ewert. My sister-in-law lives in a group home in Hanover for adults with disabilities, so we get to New Hampshire a couple of times a year. In the past year we’ve seen Liz McClintock here in D.C. and Chris Hubble (plus Julie Park Hubble ’87) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.”

—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com