In the olden days, i.e., when we were gainfully employed and making a difference, we used to pick up news about our classmates from sporting events, weddings, reunions, press releases and the like. Today we get news by electronic communication, telephone, the grapevine and, yes, by snail mail. Sadly, and this is a serious comment, we sometimes get news when we lose a friend. In early April, for example, at well-attended services in Greenwich, Connecticut, for our classmate Peter McSpadden, we were joined by George Davis (a neighbor of Peter), Nels Ehinger, Roger Pierce, Jim Rosenfield, Ann Mandel and Nancy Watt and all are doing well. We learned that Jim Rosenfield, a veteran of Dartmouth radio and CBS, was the featured speaker in Hanover at the dinner commemorating the 75th anniversary of regular, College-sanctioned radio broadcasting at Dartmouth. Good old WDBS is now something called 99Rock WFRD-FM —music we wouldn’t understand, but today’s kids love it. We also recently had a very good phone conversation with Jack Crowell out in Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Jack (his family calls him John) is also doing okay, but the call was prompted by the passing of Dr. Howard Geist of nearby Portland. Finally, in the same vein, we heard from both Harry Wachen in Great Neck, New York, and Dick Hull in Potomac, Maryland, with stories and reminiscences about our classmate Herb Roth, who passed away in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 4. Harry and Herb were long-time New York friends and Dick was a Harvard law school classmate of Herb’s, along with several other ’52s. Obituaries for each of our three late friends mentioned here are in the online edition of this issue of the alumni magazine, along with those of Jacques William F. Allen, H. Donald Staubes, Stewart M. Rose, Jay R. Schochet and William T. Brandfass, all of whom we recognize equally and mourn. We close with a note to watch your mail for news about our annual New York City luncheon, our class dinner in Hanover on October 1 and our 65th reunion on September 22-24, 2017.

—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com