I hope when you read this column we will have thawed out from the blanketing snow and freezing winds of February.


Thanks to our industrious class vice president Jack Howard and Jennifer Casey, director of class activities for alumni relations, we have secured the Drake Room at the Hanover Inn for Friday and Saturday nights, September 25 and 26, for our class mini-reunion reception and banquet dinner, respectively. This mini is scheduled for our first football home game weekend with Sacred Heart College. It is our last mini before our 70th reunion planned for 2016.


I will be attending President Hanlon’s New York City reception February 24. He will present the Moving Dartmouth Forward reforms, enhancing the College’s ongoing effort to address high-risk behavior and lack of inclusivity and efforts to improve the undergraduate learning environment. Our classmate C. Welles Fendrick Jr. has already weighed in on this issue in a letter to President Hanlon suggesting a plan to return to Christian-Judeo teachings and principles.


My wife, Susan, and I attended a N.Y.C. Dartmouth Club evening special event at the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center February 11. It included a guided backstage tour by a ballerina soloist and champagne followed by the ballet performance. Barry Weeks ’72, the club’s executive director, orchestrated this successful event.


Mailbox: Robert C. Hunt Jr. writes from his Avon, Connecticut, condo that he spends more time at his getaway home, Looking Place, Connecticut, caring for fields and a barn with a workshop. He is finishing another book about the overlooked life and times of an early Boston silversmith and his wonderful works, with law office duties, twice weekly as counsel for a Hartford, Connecticut, law firm. He is in touch with Bob Winstanley and wife Jean, who are considering signing up for the 70th reunion.


Dee Kruschwitz, widow of Hank Kruschwitz, writes from her retirement community, Foulkeways, in Pennsylvania, about her pleasant visits with fellow resident (and my brother) Al Wolff ’38, a classmate of Hank’s brother, Gilbert. Al will be 98 March 24. Dee says he is remarkable and so many of the staff and friends enjoy his company.


Our sympathies to the families of deceased classmates Henry Walter Colmery Jr., December 12, 2014, and William Theodore Carlson, January 1.


—John L. Wolff, M.D., 1160 Fifth Ave., Suite 105, New York City, NY 10029; (212) 772-1700; (212) 772-9933 (fax); jlewolffmd@aol.com