It’s the week before New Year’s, and it’s been great having my daughter, Maia ’23, home from Dartmouth; we flew out to Boston to get her and then drove down to New Jersey to have Thanksgiving with my parents and sister before flying back to California. Nowadays, winter break goes from the week of Thanksgiving to the beginning of January, so it’s extended—and makes more sense than when we’d have Thanksgiving off and some classmates would go home and some would stay. Since she’s been back, we’ve gone through all the Harry Potter movies, almost all of the Bond films. Will miss her when she goes back to Hanover in a week.

Speaking of my daughter, Mike Sowa now lives up in Quechee, Vermont. I saw him at our 30th reunion, and he emailed me this past fall saying he ran into Maia, who helped him with tickets at the Hop! Small world. Mike said, “Too funny seeing the next generation in operation on campus.”

Fiona Bayly emailed to let me know that for the third year in a row she won the USA Track & Field 15K Masters National Championship! Fiona Bayly is also the current Masters women’s age division 50-54 world champion in the half marathon and the new American record-holder in her age division for the road mile as of August, timed in 5:23 while racing in Flint, Michigan.

Tanya Timms Egenolf emailed and let me know, “We are just keeping busy in Oceanside, California, with three kids—17, 14, and 12. Starting to look at colleges and trying to keep them on the West Coast! I keep in touch with Stacy Higgins, Harriot Cato Pinkerton, Robin Byrd Winters,and Cortney Worrell.”

Hoping again to see many of you in my travels, and if you make it to southern California, let me know! If you have news to share, email me and I’ll include in our next edition.

—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com