With a little more than six months to go till our sensational 60th reunion, plans are coming together promising to make it one of our most interesting and fulfilling. Harlan Fair reports that Donna Reilly, Chuck’s wife, who is a docent at the Hood Museum, has arranged two special events for us. The first will be a firsthand description by Michael Taylor, director of the Hood Museum, of the plans that have been formulated for the extensive addition and renovation of the Hood, which will be undertaken shortly. In addition Donna has arranged for docent Roland Kuchel to revisit with us the exhibit of the Orozco murals, which are presently undergoing an upgrade and improvement scheduled for completion by June of 2013. It will be fun to return to these wonderful murals now and have the opportunity, perhaps unfulfilled 60 years ago, to more fully understand Orozco’s work. Put Blodgett is organizing a full mountain hike up Mount Moosilauke, a first for 60th reunion classes. The sign-up, however, will include the scheduled option of returning from a point determined by Put about halfway up. Look for more news about the reunion in future notes and in our ’53 Out. Dave Siegal reports that with 75 already signed up for the reunion as I write this in August, we are off to a great start.


Ron Lazar and his agents were brilliant once again, as the class raised $252,000 for the Dartmouth College Fund against our goal set at $200,000. Ron suggests that with the assistance of participation chair, president Allen Collins, and the response of our classmates in honoring our beloved Donald Carpenter Goss we came within 1 percent of our participation goal of 68 percent. Two-thirds of donors responded to the Goss initiative, which essentially added an additional $50,000. Congratulations to all!


Sadly I report the death of Richard H. Dudley and offer our condolences to his wife, Susan, and their children.


—Mark H. Smoller, 4 Schuyler Drive, Jericho, NY, 11753; (516) 938-3616; dartmark@gmail.com