Mort Smith advised that he and Nan are doing well and are reasonably mobile but staying closer to home. They are used to traveling and following the sun in the winter. They spent two months a year for 15 years in Marco Island, which is just off the coast of Naples, Florida, and subsequently three months for seven years in Green Valley, Arizona, between Tucson and Nogales, Mexico, which is blessed with a cooling altitude of some 3,000 feet. Mort stressed they both were great places to walk in the winter. Their current home for 23 years is Melvin Village, New Hampshire, just nine miles from Lake Winnipesaukee, where there is a family home where everyone gathers in the summer. They have a continuing Dartmouth tradition with a son and grandson in the classes of ’73 and ’01.

In his January letter to me, our head agent Warren Daniell had some interesting comments that I would like to excerpt and pass along to you: “With the class now numbering only 36, it is heartening that the gifting of you and others (including as many widows as classmates) shows that we are still valued members of the Dartmouth community and even more than that we respect what Dartmouth has meant to us through the years. The 75th reunion will arrive in a couple of years. I would like to be there, but both Dot and I have had recent operations which, along with Covid-19, currently restrict our mobility. My father, Dartmouth class of 1922, was able to enjoy his 75th and it would be nice to be able to do the same.” Warren, we certainly hope you can and look forward to seeing you there.

Robert F. Wieler died January 2 this year. Bob came to Dartmouth during World War II and left to serve as a Navy radio operator in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. His ship participated in the landing at Okinawa. After the war he attended Stetson University, graduating in 1949. He earned a master’s in personnel administration at the University of Pittsburgh and then joined the Royal Insurance Co. for a long career, retiring as vice president of personnel in 1988. He was active in the U.S. Air Force Reserve for many years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He and Sally married in 1960 and settled in Long Island, New York, to raise their family until her death in 2018. Bob was an enthusiastic sportsman and played tennis singles until well into his 80s.

—Dave Kurr, 603 Mountain Ave., Apt. 331, New Providence, NJ 07974; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@verizon.net