I was happy to read an article on Philly.com that featured our classmate Lisa (Yaffe) Sprafkin. The article recounted her accident our Sophomore Summer, where she was hit by a truck while riding her bicycle, her five weeks in a coma, her five months in a recovery facility in Pennsylvania working her way through a traumatic brain injury. But she made her way back and was in the same chemistry class with me senior year and graduated a year after us. The article told the inspiring story of her life since, including her 2011 wedding to her husband, Neal, and their subsequent efforts to have a baby and the arrival of their daughter, Sydney, through a surrogate.

My fellow Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra viola sectionmate Marianne (Ruhl) Nikas visited the greatest city in the world (besides, in her opinion, Philadelphia) to see the Broadway musical Hamilton. On a different musical front and in a different city, Annie Edgerton performed our national anthem in 107-degree heat at a Texas Rangers game in Dallas in August. It was her 24th anthem in her quest to perform it at all 30 home baseball stadiums.

Did anyone catch Rob Simmelkjaer covering the Rio Olympics for NBC? He wrote of how he nurtured his passion at Dartmouth in a SportsBusiness Journal column: “I called my first game (hockey) on WDCR radio as a freshman at Dartmouth College, and it was love at first mic. I loved the adrenaline rush from calling a two-on-one break. I relished traveling with the team and interviewing the coaches. And yes, like most talent, I adored the sound of my own voice.”

—Suzanne Spencer Rendahl, 224 Route 120, Plainfield, NH 03781; suzandj@comcast.net