John Boggia came to Dartmouth in 1944 as part of the U.S. Navy V-12 and V-5 programs and completed his service in air training before returning to Hanover. While at Thayer School he recalls climbing from his fourth-floor room at Middle Mass to the roof during a night snowball fight, falling off, losing his spleen and breaking a variety of bones. More productively, he supplemented his G.I. bill working at Wards Department Store. He married Dorothy, whom he dated for 10 years, in 1948. In 1950 they moved to Lexington, Massachusetts, where he spent his business career with the New England Candy Co. (NECCO), retiring as VP about 20 years ago. Dorothy worked for the New England Telephone Co., to whom I used to sell packaging. NECCO’s roots go back to 1847, when a founding company invented the first American candy machine, a lozenge cutter, to make chocolate wafers, still its most popular item. It sells a wide variety of candies worldwide. In 1864 it operated in Paul Revere’s house in in the north side of Boston and in 2003 consolidated operations in an 810,000-square-foot plant in the suburb of Revere. John and Dorothy winter at Saint Martin in the Caribbean, where they have a time-share. John had been in good health until last fall, when he had congestive heart failure and trouble with his sight that left him legally blind. His heart condition is being controlled with a pacemaker and he’s hopeful of improving his sight. John’s hanging in there with good spirits. I’m sure he’d enjoy hearing from you. I fondly recall our annual, bacchanalian parties after the Princeton football game. One year, to extend the cocktail hour, we partiers organized a “Tinkers to Evers to Chance” combo, flipping the hot potatoes from the oven and past our unsuspecting Tiger hostess through the kitchen, dining room and out the backdoor. Please send by phone, email or Morse code information of past or present activities of you or your progeny from anecdotal to archival and avoid future such gross remembrances from me.

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