Green Key weekend will once again bring festivities to the Dartmouth campus in May. And this June class reunions will return to campus. The joy of seeing friends in Hanover, especially after the isolation of Covid, will be good for the soul. I imagine that these class gatherings will be even more festive than usual. I know the class of 1945 has remarkable reunion memories, having heard of them from my dad. If you have some special memories, I would love to share them with the rest of the class. I hope you have seen the plans for the spectacular addition to the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The new design honors the original 1962 architecture by Wallace K. Harrison, the architect of New York City’s Lincoln Center, maintaining the building’s overarching frame, distinctive arches, and other important spaces, including the Top of the Hop, the lobby outside of Moore Theater, and Spaulding Auditorium, each of which will be renewed. It is being designed by the architectural firm Snohetta, based in Oslo, Norway, and New York City, because of the firm’s experience in honoring historic architecture and seamlessly merging it with forward-looking design. If you have the chance you should go to https://hop.dartmouth.edu/projects-ideas/hop-reimagined to be inspired by a fabulous new home for the performing arts at Dartmouth. Earle “Bud” Street checked in again with me and shared that the daughter of John S. Wheeler ’44, Joyce Wheeler, shares meals with him every day where Bud lives in Hyannis, Massachusetts. I heard that Sidney “Sid” French peacefully passed away in February at his home in Naples, Florida. He came to Dartmouth from Grand Rapids, Michigan. As so many of the ’45s did, he served in WW II. He worked for Merrill Lynch for his entire 40-plus-year career. He was predeceased by his wife, Barbara “Twink” VanWinkle French, and is survived by children, grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. Sid enjoyed squash and golf and valued his friendships throughout his life. Our heartfelt condolences to his family. Have a lovely summer wherever you may be spending it. Please send me your news.

—Martha Johnson Beattie ’76, 6 North Balch St., Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 667-7611; mbeattie76@gmail.com