I recall talking with Al Foster at his place in Naples, Florida, shortly before our 70th reunion, hoping he could make it. He was eager to see his prep school and Dartmouth classmate Doc Sanders one more time. I checked and had to tell Al that Doc had passed on recently. While chatting about our football days at Hebron Academy, I mentioned to Al about the stunning hockey game upset in 1941 when the Hebron team came down to Hanover and beat the Dartmouth freshmen squad with famed first line of Riley, Rondeau and Harrison, 5-4. Along with Al, Jack Riley’s younger brother, Billy, was a star center and my roommate, John MacDonald, played on Hebron’s second line. With both of her sons contesting together, Mrs. Riley had come up from Medford, Massachusetts, to see the game. Al said that at one point he flattened Jack Riley with a hard but legal check at his end of the ice. Mrs. Riley, sitting in the front row of old Davis Rink, took offense at her eldest son’s abuse. As Al skated back close to her seat, she lashed out with her pocketbook and hit him on the head. Al thought she must have had a pint of gin or something similar in her bag as he was seeing stars for the rest of that period.

I received a very positive note on Nick Nichols and wife Terry, who celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary back on March 1. Nick is a published author with variety galore on subjects ranging from Darwin, climate warming, baseball and gold. Nick and Terry were athletic enough to have won the New England mixed doubles ping-pong title three years in a row in younger years while living in Massachusetts. Terry has produced oil paintings and sculptures for 60 years. They’re still active at their Oakmont Gardens assisted living quarters in Santa Rosa, California.

Advice was received of the loss of Edgar E. “Bud” Thomas, M.D., La Jolla, California, in January. Our condolences to his five children.

—Bud Street, 99 Locust Lane, Barnstable, MA 02630; (508) 362-3780; mlnbud@comcast.net