Just spoke to Jack Howard, class vice president, who wishes to remind all classmates to get on board for our upcoming mini-reunion the weekend of Friday and Saturday, September 25-26, for our first home game with Sacred Heart College. It will be our last mini before our 70th full reunion, planned for 2016 at the College’s expense, but, we hope, not our last.


Our class executive committee has unanimously agreed for the class to donate $3,000 to the Memorial Park Fund as part of the refurbishing of Memorial Stadium, built in 1923. Memorials will be for those Dartmouth students killed from World War I probably through Vietnam.


I attended President Phil Hanlon’s reception in New York City February 24 and had a pleasant, informal few minutes chatting with him and his wife. He addressed the Dartmouth Moving Forward Plan reforms regarding high-risk behavior, lack of inclusivity and improving the undergraduate learning environment. While the older classes were outnumbered by the younger ones, I felt less lonely when Saul Nirenberg sat next to me during the presentation. Following graduation from Dartmouth, including one year at Tuck in 1945, Saul went from the family shirt business to the stock market, including a partnership with L.F. Rothschild and, before retirement in 2013, for 23 years as an expert witness for small investors suing stockbrokers who had misled them. His third marriage is going strong. He has two sons and a daughter, who created a magazine titled Chop Chop, acclaimed for reducing child obesity.


While awake and chatting with my surgeon during a recent pacemaker reinsertion, we were both surprised to discover that we were fellow Dartmouth alumni and roomed at Lord Hall. He fortunately didn’t drop his scalpel. Dr. Nicholas Skipitaris, the surgeon, was class of ’86, DMS’90.


Our sympathy to the wife, Betty, and three sons (all Dartmouth grads) of Dr. Arthur Purell, who died January 17 in Vero Beach, Florida. He served as a medical officer on troop transports to South Korea, followed by 50 years of practicing obstetrics and gynecology.


Condolences to Douglas Leigh and family for the loss of Doug’s wife, Nancy, after more than 60 happy years together. Doug recently visited Stephanie and Bob Stevenson in Santa Barbara, California.


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