As recently reported in the Forty-five Journal the ’45 second Thursday of the month luncheons will now take place at Stella’s in Lyme, New Hampshire. Should you be in the area and able to join us (which would be wonderful) it would be wise to check in case there has been a change in venue.

The College announced that Jake Tapper ’91, CNN’S chief Washington, D.C., correspondent, is scheduled to be the 2017 Commencement speaker.

Eric Fossum, professor at Thayer School of Engineering and director of its doctoral innovation program, recently received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for his role in helping create the “camera on a chip” that shrunk imaging systems enough to put in smartphones. He will share the $1.25-million prize with three other researchers, including one who has already won a Nobel Prize. Fossum said he will use much of his prize to boost Camp Invention, a program for science, technology, engineering and math education in elementary schools.

The status of the proposed new indoor athletic facility is still unresolved.

Classmate Bud Street will become your class secretary as soon as he returns from Florida sometime in April. How about welcoming him by filling his mail box, either postal or email, with your up-to-date news? I know he would be appreciative. In the meantime, I look forward to hearing from you.

—Shirley Robinson, 80 Lyme Road, #253, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2203; shrobinson@kahres.org