I love this job! Welcome calls, letters and e-mails from Dave King (Chicago), Frank Bruch (Middlebury, Vermont), Joe Spound (Wayland, Massachusetts), Dave Leslie (Minnetonka, Minnesota) and Bill Leffler (Kennebunkport, Maine) brighten my day.


Keep the news coming!


A recent lunch with Ted and Ellie Davidson provided a pleasant ’51 sighting (Ted is now disguised behind a bushy white beard). They have moved from Sarasota, Florida, to a continuing care facility in Barrington, Illinois. Ted is in regular touch with Dave Angell, an ardent birder living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Jim Asker (Walnut Creek, California).


Emerson Pugh (Cold Spring, New York) left Dartmouth after his freshman year and completed B.S. and Ph.D. in physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He spent 36 years in technical and executive jobs at IBM while authoring or co-authoring a college physics textbook and four books on the history of IBM and the computer industry. He was very active in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, serving as president of this 400,000-member technical and professional society.


George Bissell (Wellesley, Massachusetts) continues his long-standing service as a trustee of Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece. That country’s economic problems pose pressing challenges to the school and its leadership.


Reed Badgley, Herb and Nancy Knight, Jean and I attended President Jim Yong Kim’s farewell luncheon at the Dartmouth Club of Chicago. Dr. Kim received a prolonged standing ovation from the overflow crowd.


Stu Johnson (Deltona, Florida) and I discovered a shared love of symphonic music and opera (Stu has a collection of 800 CDs!). Stu has a graduate degree in physics, which he put to good use in a career at Schlumberger. He has also been a real estate investor and developer.


Bob Sanderson (Punta Gorda, Florida) is retired from work as a golf course superintendent but still plays regularly (“if less well”). His retirement project: building a boat.


We report the deaths of Nelson Brown, David Emerson and Carlos Mayorkas.


At the recent funeral of Joe Welch’s wife, Donna, our class was represented by Howie Allen, John and Marcia Clayton, Loye Miller, Henry Nachman, Dave and Susan Saxton.


—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis St., Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com