Sad news from our class treasurer, Pete Volanakis: “I received news that our classmate Dave Funsch passed away on December 7 from a massive heart attack. Dave was my high school classmate (Fair, Pennsylvania). Dave was a good guy, quiet and very, very smart. He was a doctor in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, who received his M.D. through the Navy and traveled through the Middle East. At Dartmouth he was a member of Beta and majored in mathematics and economics.”

Island news from Will Davis: “My wife, Mary Rose, a Cornell graduate and I moved to Lihue, Kauai. I am working as a healthcare professional at Bayard Health Care and privately as a swim instructor and masseur. Swimming and surfing with sea turtles and soaking up sunrises on the beaches is invigorating. Our residence and much of the island is getting solar panels.”

Postscript: In Mary Rose’s Cornell Alumni Magazine, there is a copy of The Dartmouth, the oldest college paper in America (5 cents) dated November 18, 1940. The headline was “Cornell concedes 3-0 Dartmouth victory.”

Place-kicker Bob Krieger kicked a field goal while Cornell end Nick Drahos caught an apparent game-winning touchdown. However, referee Red Friezell admitted his error of a fifth down and Cornell sent a telegram to Dartmouth offering congratulations. Cornell quarterback from the “fifth-down” game, Walt Scholl, would fly over the Mediterranean 72 times, ultimately earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.

—John T. Bird, 1920 Chateau Circle, Apt. 306, Birmingham, AL 35209; (205) 276-4609; jtbird.com@gmail.com