Greetings, fellow ’70s. First off, congratulations to head class agents Wayne Bardsley and David Graves for leading 1970 to a successful close of the fundraising year. Our class contributed $534,512 to the Dartmouth College Fund, a 24-percent increase over last year. We had 20 more donors this year to get us to a participation rate of 41.3 percent, slightly below the overall College average. For the 58.7 percent of you who chose not to participate, I’m sure there a plenty of good reasons. “Oops, I forgot” is not one of them. Wayne and Dave look forward to another good year in 2014, especially in boosting our participation level.


The Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association named Tom Peisch defense lawyer of the year at their annual convention in May. Congratulations, counselor. Too bad for Whitey Bulger that he couldn’t retain Tom’s services for his recent court appearance in Boston.


The June edition of Speaking of Dartmouth features a piece on recent Dartmouth graduates being commissioned as officers in the U.S. military. Among them is Brian Holekamp ’12, now a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Brian is the son of classmate Bill Holekamp. Bill also made news recently for endowing the Holekamp Family chair for athletics at John Burroughs School in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he prepped for Dartmouth.


T.J. Rodgers, founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor, has again made his feelings known in a Wall Street Journal opinion page piece titled “Targeting the Wealthy Kills Jobs” that was published on August 18. Whether you agree with T.J. or not, his views are, as always, certainly thought-provoking.


On a visit to the New Jersey shore this past summer Ann and I had a chance to catch up with Cindy and Sandy McWilliams over dinner. The following day I was treated to a sail on Sandy’s boat. Neither heavy seas nor winds gusting to 30 miles per hour could keep Sandy in port. In fact, as far as I could tell, we were the only boat out on Barnegat Bay. So passionate has Sandy become about sailing that he rarely pulls his golf clubs out of the closet anymore. Cindy and Sandy’s older son, Thomas, began his freshman year at Lehigh this fall.


That’s all, folks. Feel free to shoot me an e-mail with news from your neck of the woods.


—Bill Wilson, 304 Highlands Bluffs Drive, Cary, NC 27518; wilson8689@aol.com