It’s marvelous to see Fifty-One Fables, our class newsletter, back in circulation! Hats off to Charlie Russell for stepping up to fill Dave Batchelder’sshoes as editor. Thanks also to Tom Barnett, Jim Cavanagh, Spud Grey, Bob Meyer and Art Worden for volunteering to reach out to classmates in search of news.

Bill Halpin and his long-time partner, Calvin Temensky, were married last June. “Who would have thought back in 1951,” Bill asks, “that such a marriage would even be thought of, let alone an actuality? What a long way we’ve come!” Bill and Calvin have settled down in Wilton Manors, Florida.

Twenty-four of our classmates spent their fourth and fifth years at the Dartmouth Medical School, then went on to receive their M.D. degrees elsewhere. Thirteen of them are still living. The group has reuned every year for 63 years. Last fall’s gathering (“Better Sooner Than Never!”) included Jim Cavanagh, Pat and Don Clark, Marie and Bill Goulburn, Giles Hamlin, Kay and Jack Hyland, Jane and Tyke Miller, Barbara and Ace Mueller and Stan van den Noort’s widow, June.

Stan Shipper reports in from Florence, Alabama, one of a handful of ’51s whose hometown is the same as it was when he arrived in Hanover 68 years ago. Stan had a long career as a banker in Florence.

Les Richard (Appleton, Wisconsin) spent his professional life in the paper industry, combining his Dartmouth degree in chemistry with an M.B.A. to manage a research and development program. A Glee Club member in our class, Les still sings in Appleton church, chorus and theater groups.

When you are next back in Hanover check out the large poster prominently displayed on the first floor of Wilder Hall, home of Dartmouth’s physics department. The photo, from the cover of Physics Today, shows Stu Johnson, then a graduate student, and four distinguished Dartmouth professors involved in building a neutron generator in 1955.

I report with sadness the recent deaths of Vince Albo, Hugh Aronson, Dick Pugh and Ralph Watkins.

—Pete Henderson, 450 Davis Street, Evanston, IL 60201; (847) 905-0635; pandjhenderson@gmail.com