Our annual mini-reunion class meeting and dinner, where we were joined by 12 widows, were held September 25 in the Vermont Room of the Coolidge Hotel in White River Junction, Vermont. The Coolidge is a charming, old hotel with a mixture of regular and semi-permanent rooms primarily for Dartmouth faculty and graduate students. The walls were covered with pastoral murals by Peter Michael Fish and innkeeper and owner David Briggs gave us an interesting presentation of their meaning and history. The class continues to be financially healthy. Our participation rate for annual fund gifting was a record 51 percent. Our scholar-athlete award-winners, Jacqueline Friedman ’16 and Dovydas Sakinis ’16, joined us for dinner. Jackie, from Del Mar, California, is a psychology and brain studies major with a 3.6 GPA and an All-Ivy first team selection as a top defensive player for a soccer team that gave up just 11 goals while recording nine shutouts. She worked with Goldman Sachs in San Francisco during the summer, but is unsure where her interests lie. Dovydas comes from Lithuania and has a double major in economics and Russian with a 3.67 GPA. He was named Ivy League tennis player of the year, qualified for the NCAA singles championship and was asked to try out for the Lithuanian Davis Cup. He has worked in the summer with Morgan Stanley, but is uncertain as to his career and country. Both winners made us feel good about Dartmouth. Joyce and I had a very pleasant dinner and bridge with Judy Cross and John Hatheway,although their bidding and making two small slams in the first rubber was a bit much. John suffered a cardiac arrest in San Francisco, was hospitalized for several days and had to fly back with oxygen. He’s recovering nicely and played his first golf last fall. Most of us had a delightful dinner Saturday at Bud and Barbara Munson’shouse Saturday, skipping the football game with its ridiculous 7 p.m. starting time. Foxy and Helen Parker had a fascinating trip to Iceland last summer that I’ll cover in detail next notes.

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