Words in the Dartmouth alma mater include the line, “Tho’ round the girdled earth they roam,” but in the case of our class today, not so much. We still have a handful of classmates, widows, and partners living abroad, but the rest of us are hanging out domestically in some 43 states and D.C. (Openings exist in the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Utah, the Dakotas, and in Arkansas and Mississippi.) Recent contacts in our stateside abodes include a chat with George Sherman, who resides in Chelsea, Michigan. George had a most interesting career, first as a newspaper reporter in California and Washington, D.C., and then, for most of his years, in the foreign service, including several years in India. He is in good health and busy compiling his memoirs. We also talked with John McDonald, who lives with his wife, Anne, in Ticonderoga, New York. He is also doing well, retired from law practice, and reports he enjoyed the Dartmouth-Princeton football game in Yankee Stadium last fall. We know Ken Roman also saw the game and we believe James (Brud) Leiter attended as swell. Others? By the way, we’re most proud of the 2019 Big Green, led by Buddy Teevens ’79, son of our late classmate Gene Teevens. Another recent contact is with Gil Ellenberger, a retired banker, originally from Cleveland, but a longtime resident of California. He and his partner, Jo Howard, are among the many who have comfortably adopted the retirement community lifestyle in Palo Alto. Gil has, for many years, traveled to Arizona in February to watch the San Francisco Giants in spring training. Not this year, he explained. We had a nice message from Ruth Guild, widow of Alden Guild. She is a longtime Vermonter, but now has moved to North Carolina to be near family and she is doing well. We regret to report the passing of four more classmates, Joseph Novak, Ted Stampfer, the Rev. John Mathews,and the Rev. James White. The latter two died a number of years ago, 2009 and 2015, but we just learned of their passing.

—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com