“Time begins on opening day,” according to Thomas Boswell, so we decided to check in with perennial Brooklyn fan Dick Barr about the upcoming season. Dick, naturally, tabbed the Dodgers to win it all. “We have a great all-star roster with Campy, Duke, Pewee and Jackie; expect young lefty Johnny Podres to have a good season; 2015 will be Brooklyn’s year,” he opined. Since 2015 is our year, too, we’ll see from the wide, wide world in October how it all turns out. Doug Melville got a jump on the season when he and Diana traveled from frozen Old Saybrook, Connecticut, to visit Jim Wiggin in Sarasota, Florida, where they enjoyed the warm sun at a Red Sox spring training game.


We received a delightful email from Ryutaro Shindo, Takarazka, Japan, that his wife and he “are so far fairly well.” They enjoy living in a quiet, small town, do not move around a lot, but try to keep themselves busy for social activities and contribute to the local needs as much as possible. As with a number of us, his hearing and vision sensitivity is a little by little declining with age, which he takes as a matter of course. Ryutaro states that he always remembers Dartmouth with pleasure, pride and gratitude. Sometimes he enjoys walking around the campus on Google Maps.


The North Carolina ’55s had their spring mini in Statesville on April 16 hosted once again by Mary and Jon Anderson, who are planning to travel to Seattle this summer to visit family. The group included Dave Conlan, Kathy and Ken Lundstrom, Betsey and Dave Miller, and Shirley and Paul Merriken.


Gus Aberle proudly reported that his granddaughter, Meredith, has been named a Phi Beta Kappa at Southern Methodist University.


Tom McGreevey, Aaron Simon and your secretary represented 1955 for the conversation with President Hanlon ’77 at his visit to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 18. Aaron recently moved from snowy Connecticut to the milder climes of Raleigh, North Carolina.


Sadly, we report the deaths of Neale Clapp, Bernie Fulton and Robert Saidel. 


—Ken Lundstrom, 1101 Exchange Place, #1106, Durham, NC 27713; (919) 206-4639; kenlundstrom@yahoo.com