The new college year was off to a robust start with the inauguration of Sian Leah Beilock as the new president of the college. She set a high mark with her five imperatives and then followed that with a conference of surgeons general to discuss student mental health issues, which attracted national attention. Also included in the early fall was a poignant and touching campus-wide memorial for Coach Buddy Teevens ’79.

Sian was the first Ivy president to comment on the Hamas attack on Israel, and her comments were spot on. Football is off to a slow start and is 3-3 as this is written. Nonetheless, interim coach Sammy McCorkle was named the Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach.

Don Charbonnier attended the Yale game loss, did not report seeing another classmate, and also joined the 90-year club this summer. John Levitas of Whitesboro, New York, attended the overtime loss at Colgate. John continues local volunteer work and visits with his wife each afternoon at her long-term care facility. Tom Byrne reports from Quitman, Georgia, that they had some old branches on their pecan trees come down from the storms this fall; meanwhile, he is attending to two new groups of feral kittens. He also is a 90-year member now.

Sadly, we report the passing of John Bryan, Leon Martel, Paul Merriken, Ronald T. Murphy, and Harry Teder.

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