Thank you, Ron Lazar and Linda Kennedy O’Toole for pinch hitting for me and writing this column for the last issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Unhappily, my wife, Bobby, as enthusiastic and loyal a Dartmouth spouse as there ever was, passed away after a long and courageous battle. She hosted 10 Dartmouth Alumni Club of Long Island meetings a year in our home for more than 30 years, hosted pool parties each year for accepted Dartmouth students for more than 30 years, and critiqued my interviewing for more than 60 years. Dartmouth has lost a most enthusiastic spokesman and supporter. Anton Phillips writes from the Netherlands: “I have been promoting the fact that the best way for people to fully develop is in a lasting relationship with their spouse, and therefore it is worth spending energy in sustaining that relationship. We have a nationwide campaign to reverse the trend of divorce as soon as things become difficult in a marriage. In Holland the rate is four of 10 marriages ultimately break up. Our aim is to bring back two in 10 in the coming five years, which would need rather a miracle.” Anton’s lifetime concern for the communal welfare is a tribute to Dartmouth for inspiring this value, still alive and thriving even in nonagenarians. News of our activities is hard to come by. Please send me whatever news you have. Our classmates would love to hear about you.

And, sadly, I must report the demise of the following classmates: Richard Mainzer, Allan Brewster, John Joy, Leonard Johnson, Anson mark, David Florence, Charles Buchanan, Edward Wood, Andrew Padegs, William Murray, Richard Davenport, Andrew Guntekunst, and Max Pepper.We offer our sincere condolences to their families.

—Mark H. Smoller, Lake Shore Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579; (516) 526-9130; dartmark@gmail.com