The holiday spirit continues to fill us as these notes are written the end of December for you to read them in the March/April issue of DAM—Happy New Year! Jingle bells and baseball spring training is here or the season may already be open. No subway series last year. Try again this year? The Phillies should be back in the picture, but these things are hard to judge with all the signing of free agents for huge amounts.

A nice note was received from Howie Howland ’57 regarding a Dartmouth Green bench the alumni of Falmouth, Massachusetts, had dedicated to Lou Turner and installed on the edge of the Coonamessett River, where Lou had headed up the yearly herring run. In November John French, as chair of the Salzburg Festival Society, led the annual New York City gala and began the celebrations by honoring Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Paul Zimmerman’s son, Jon, recently wrote in Liberties of the importance of his late father’s service and leadership in the Peace Corps. Paul, as you may recall, entered the Peace Corps after graduation and provided significant contributions as director in South India and Iran. Dick Aberle in his delightful annual Christmas note reported that he meets each morning with a small group of coffee-drinking male friends at his retirement village to review and solve without success the world’s problems.

A recent mosey through the pages of June’s issue of Yankee Magazine revealed the Mount Monadnock Mega Ice Cream Sundae. The most-climbed peak in North America serves as the inspiration for this creation at Ava Marie Handmade Chocolates in nearby Peterborough, New Hampshire. In brief and not to spoil your fun to search it out yourself this spring, it consists of, among other goodies, 35 scoops of ice cream. Also, we were delighted to note Jud Hale as senior editor emeritus on the listing of all the staff.

Sadly, we report the passing of Preston B. “Mike” Fletcher, Frederick Lione, Richard Mount, Peter von S. Stevens.

—Ken Lundstrom, 1912 Marsh Road, IL Apt. 132, Wilmington, DE 19810; (919) 641-5219; ken lundstrom@yahoo.com