Class Note 1964. Bill Fitzhugh retires later this year after 56 years with the Smithsonian Institution, where he has served as a curator of archaeology and director of its Arctic studies center. Bill writes, “It has been a rewarding career producing exhibitions, training students, and researching Arctic peoples and cultures across the circumpolar world. As of January 2027, I will join Lynne in Fairlee, Vermont, where I plan to do some teaching at Dartmouth and catch up on unfinished projects. Recently, I published books on the narwhal—now rivaling the polar bear as the Arctic’s iconic species—a volume on rock art and archaeology in the Mongolian Altai, and a study of Basque contact with Inuit in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A web-based project is also opening inaccessible polar archives to a wider audience, including the Arctic records of Vilhjalmur Stefansson in Dartmouth’s Rauner archives. Visit circumpolarnavigator.org, which now includes records from nearly 50 institutions. If you are planning a visit to Washington, D.C., be sure to see the three bronze bison recently installed on the steps of the Natural History Museum.” Roger Simon continues to be an avid writer. His latest fiction is Emet, a thriller about a brutal murder and tornado that shakes Nashville, a doubting rabbi who confronts evidence that a Jewish legend may be real, and a threat. Roger has since moved to Miami from Nashville, and we expect another story to come. The reviews have been good. Classmates, please send us updates.
—Robert Goodman Jr., Kaufman & Canoles, P.C., 2101 Parks Ave., Suite 700, Virginia Beach, VA 23451; (757) 624-3238; rcgoodman@kaufcan.com