I enjoyed running into Alan Eagle, my Hitchcock next-door neighbor, for the first time in years this past June. Alan began 2024 with the release of his new book, Learned Excellence, coauthored with Eric Potterat, Ph.D., a world-renowned performance psychologist. Alan describes their book as “a comprehensive guide to the mental disciplines of high performance. It is based on Eric’s career working with thousands of top performers from the military, sports, business, and first-responder worlds, and my career working with several Silicon Valley startups and as a managing director at Google.” Both New York Times’ Bestsellers: How Google Works and Trillion Dollar Coach were coauthored by Alan. Now for the admirers of political humor, check out Late-Night in Washington, coauthored by classmate Stephen Farnsworth with Robert Lichter and Farah Latif and available on Amazon. Stephen is a professor in the department of political science and international affairs and the director of the University of Mary Washington Center for Leadership and Media Studies. The book is the ninth coauthored by Stephen on the presidency, the mass media, politics, and public opinion. Stephen’s publisher writes, “This book traces the trajectory of late-night political humor, which has long been a staple of entertainment television and is now a prominent part of social media political discourse.” Our classmates have long admired the acoustic-based folk rock and Americana songs of “Best of Boston” singer and songwriter Kevin Connolly. During Covid Kevin broadened his horizons and began taking virtual acting courses with the country’s top acting coaches and was hooked. In 2023 Kevin was a lead actor in Confessions of a Namedropper, a short film he cowrote and starred in with James Dumont. In Kevin’s words, “It’s a twisted little, short film about a mixed-up, middle-aged guy and his unconventional therapist.” Screened at numerous film festivals stateside and internationally in 2023, the film won “Best Comedy Award” at the Istanbul Movie Awards and was a semifinalist in the Rome International Short Festival. Speaking of Kevin’s international recognition, New Shot Records, an Italian label, has remastered Kevin’s Violin Sirens from his music cassette recording from 30 years ago and released it on CD, available at newshotrecords.com. Finally, Kathy Provost and Mark Flessel have agreed to become our class head agents for the Dartmouth College Fund. Please continue to keep us up to date on your stories and adventures!

—Shanta Sullivan, 1541 North Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; shantaesullivan@gmail.com; Elliot Stultz, 2600 N. Flagler Drive, #503, West Palm Beach, FL 33407; elliotstultz@yahoo.com