Dave Halloran, erstwhile editor of ’53 Out, and I have pooled resources in our quest for news of our classmates and we have come up with a treasure trove this month. Your scribe will be running in the New York City Marathon, for which he is training by climbing Bartlett Tower surreptitiously. An anonymous source in Hanover has told us on the sly that our veep, Donna Reilly, longtime docent at the Hood, is first in line for consideration as its chief executive. Lots of luck, Donna. Dick Cahn will be running for governor of New York State. His expertise in constitutional law and experience as a trustee of Adelphi University makes him uniquely qualified for the position. Jet pilot Dave Halloran has scheduled a launch of his glider this coming fall on the back of a Space X missile. He will attempt to fly from Cape Canaveral to Bloomington, Indiana, and land at Indiana University Memorial Stadium at half time of the Indiana vs. Michigan football game, and by so doing insert himself into the Guinness Book of Records for powerless flight. It is comforting to know that ambassador Peter Bridges has been recalled to duty by the U.S. State Department to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. It will be a difficult job, but we know that Peter can handle it. I can report that Ron Lazar and Dick Fleming, the yin and yang of our class funds, will be taking on an additional task as co-comptrollers of the College. Ron brings in the money; Dick oversees it going out. Watch that endowment grow. Finally, there is a rumor that the periodicals room in Baker will be renamed the John Kennedy Reading Room. It will house exclusively all of the books that our class has donated to the library through the years. Should you be thinking that this column was written on April Fool’s Day, you are correct, but frankly, it is the only news we have. Please send us your latest doings or risk another. Thanks! On the serious side we must report the deaths of our dear classmates and offer our condolences to their families. They are Sherwood Salitsky, Sidney Woodrow, H. Elton Clarke, Harold Presson, Warren Fisher, Richard Blum, Fran L’Esperasnce, Edwin Grant, Wayne Hansen, Michael Zarin, John Horne Jr., and Phil Beekman.

—Mark H. Smoller, 401 Lake Shore Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579; (603) 845-5066; dartmark@gmail.com