Our annual mini-reunion held October 3 and 4 with dinners at the Dowd Country Inn and Barbara and Bud Munson’s house was enjoyed by all. Although it poured rain, it was a pleasure to beat Penn for a change. While the class is shrinking and dues income diminishing, our cash position for fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, was a healthy $17,600 and we are able to sustain various College projects that are not fully funded. Our class participation rate of annual gifting was a strong 50.4 percent and received an award from the College. Silas Talbot ’15 and Ari Savage ’15 were selected as our scholar-athletes of the year. Silas comes from Anchorage, Alaska, and is an engineering major, captain of the cross-country ski team and a member of the cross-country track team. Speaking to us at dinner, he expressed a strong sense of family at Dartmouth and feels the College is making progress toward more inclusiveness and addressing its other problems. He noted that fraternities are considering independent corrective initiatives and believes President Hanlon is well regarded by the student body. Ari, who could not join us, is a neuroscience major, comes from South Wales, Australia, and is captain of the field hockey team. She’s a prolific scorer and for three years has been a unanimous first-team Ivy League selection. Thanks to Pat McAllister, 10 widows attended, including Alice Becker, who organizes monthly luncheons for the Dartmouth Club at the Hunt Club in Westport, Connecticut. Bill and Marjorie Scott still spend five months of the year at their summer home at Lake Morey, Vermont, and the balance in Peabody, Massachusetts, where Bill assures me they have no TV, although he allows going to the local pub for an occasional NFL game. His nephew, a lawyer in Wilton, Connecticut, is a genuine Thoreau, with a cabin on Lake Morey without electricity or running water. I remember summers as a youngster in East Otis, Massachusetts, under the same conditions, with ice cut from the lake in the winter, kerosene lamps, an outhouse and a wood stove for heating and cooking.


—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net