Through the years members of our class have been recognized for many public service commitments and, when we learn of them, we are most fortunate to be able to pass the news along. Here’s another. In the July/August edition of the alumni magazine we reported the sad news that Charles “Doc” Dey had passed away in April of this year. His obituary can also be found in the online edition of this publication. We now have an additional story and another well-deserved recognition of Doc’s achievements. One of his many efforts was to become involved in the National Organization on Disability (NOD) along with our late classmate, Alan Reich, the founder of the NOD. The NOD has established the Charles F. Dey Award for Equal Opportunity. This award will be presented each September at NOD’s Corporate Leadership Council annual dinner and it honors a company that works to open doors for all people with disabilities. This year’s recipient is the Coca-Cola Co. Alan and Doc were longtime friends and Alan challenged Doc to “do in the ’90s for kids with disability what he did for minorities in the ’60s.” That reference is the founding of A Better Chance (ABC), providing seriously disadvantaged students “a better chance” at college and lifelong leadership by placing them in top private and public schools. In its nearly 60 years, ABC has graduated more than 16,000 students. The result of Alan’s challenge was NOD’s Start on Success (SOS) program in 1994, providing paid internships and workplace mentors to poor high school students, 85 percent of whom went on to jobs or further education. The SOS program continues today. In 2005 NOD launched its National Employability Partnership under Doc, who became vice chairman of the board. A positive story in a year that has very few. Unfortunately, we close with news of the loss of two additional classmates, Paul Rosenberg of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Thurston Egbert Jr. of Glen, New Hampshire.

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