September was mini-reunion month for 1955s. We had an outstanding gathering of 33 classmates, wives, partners and widows at Flat Head Lodge, Montana, hosted by Pete and Annie Teal, September 6-10. Joe Mathewson’s newsletter has already provided the details and photos. Also, September 14 saw our North Carolina people gather in Statesville, hosted by Jon and Mary Anderson: Dave Conlan, Paul Merriken, Tom McGreevey, Ed Barry, Ken Lundstrom, Dave Miller and spouses. All were in good spirits and good health; conversations were robust with the requisite number of comments about local events, recollections and speculations about Dartmouth’s new president and the upcoming football season.


Football: With Doug and Diana Melville we took in the most recent end to the Yale jinx, 34-14, Big Green, at the Yale Bowl. Dartmouth now stands 4-2, with Harvard next at Homecoming, and three more tough games after that. 


Congratulations are in order for Joe Kagle and Dick Roberts. 


Joereceived two special recognition awards for artwork in the 14th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Art Exhibition, hosted by Upstream People Gallery. Joe’s submissions were The Butterfly Effect, 12 in 1 #19 and 96, Little Bit of Everything #15, which show his signature collage and photo-process works with all its rich imagery and delightful coloration. 


Dick is the subject of Haverford School’s “Profiles in Service,” which presents his outstanding medical career. Dick continues his work at St. Vincent and in the Grenadines, West Indies, where he established this fall a national program for the control and prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease—a very significant problem in the resource-limited countries in the tropics. 


Jim Wiggin contributed that he also has a Civil War great-grandfather (mother’s side) who survived 10 months imprisonment in Andersonville, Georgia, and other Southern prisons. Jim’s sister compiled a memoir based on Andersonville archives and his letters and recollections. As Jim says, “An inspiring story of survival!”


Next mini-reunion: The Woodstock Inn hosted by Dick and Jill Hastings, May 28–31.


We sadly report the passing of David Elder at a hospice in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.


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