Sweet 2016! Bob Jones (whose email signature is followed by alphabet soup: “Robert B. Jones, J.D., CPA, CEBS, CSCP”) has a law degree and certifications as a public accountant, employee benefits specialist and supply chain professional. He spent 20 years with E&Y National Tax and as a regional practice leader starting practices that grew from zero to 15 people in Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia in executive compensation and employee benefits. After that he was the head of U.S. compensation consulting for Aon-Hewitt for several years, with 170 consultants nationwide. Now his business does both executive compensation and employee benefits consulting for his company’s clients in the United States and worldwide. Bob and family also own 30 sections (a section is 640 acres) in east and west Texas that are fully leased to oil companies. He discovered masters swimming after age 50 and last summer participated in the National Senior Games at the University of Minnesota aquatic facility in Minneapolis. Bob earned two firsts (100 fly and 100 back), a second, a third, a fourth and a fifth in three days of swimming: “I’m lucky enough to have 25 percent of our state’s medal total.”

After many years Paul Sehl has left the windy city, Chicago, and relocated to Coachella Valley in California with his wife, Katy Dillon, to pursue their retirement agenda of lots of sunshine and travel.

A nice email from Woody McGinnis notes, “After six years in New Zealand—as it was, a very good place to think—our family moved back to Oregon so as to not miss out on a certain young grandchild. My medical career essentially divided in halves, the first in general practice in Tucson, Arizona, followed by 20 years of full-time research in autism. The latter culminated in peer-reviewed publication of a brainstem hypothesis for autism in 2013 and the keynote presentation at the International Congress of Neuroimmunology and Therapeutics in San Francisco July 20, 2015. The basic idea is that a common class of neurotoxins in the modern environment—monosodium glutamate, mercury, cadmium, fluoride—potentially trigger autistic regression by entering small portals in the brainstem unprotected by the blood-brain barrier. One of these key areas of brainstem is also highly sensitive to low oxygen delivery, which could account for the strong association between early-onset autism and complicated labor and delivery.” Woody now resides in Medford, Oregon.

My predecessor scribe Bob Conway, recipient of the 1999 Class Secretary of the Year Award, who currently serves as class necrologist, also pens the clubs and groups report found in this magazine and holds the office of secretary for the Dartmouth Club of Eastern New York. In addition, he is a member of the Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni (DUSA), which was named the 2014 Affiliated Group of the Year, in only its second year of existence. DUSA is a shared interest alumni group for armed service veterans and their families (dusa.dartmouth.org). Bob also serves as an Aquinas House trustee. Bob remains the director of legal affairs and counsel at the New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs.

Make and keep a New Year’s resolution to send me news to share with classmates!

—Val Armento, 227 Sylvan Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403; valerie.j.armento.73@dartmouth.edu