Our giving to the Alumni Fund, ending June 30, wasn’t the best, as our percentage dropped from the previous year’s 38 percent to 30 percent. However, we still managed to do better than the ’44 and ’46 classes. In answer to my cry for classmates’ status, Harry Hampton’s reply was, “I’m still here.” He says longevity is achieved by not stepping on your own feet. Otherwise there are painful difficulties, including a wobbly walk. With his heartbeat Peg, he continues to enjoy contented comfort at Riverwoods, an upscale nonprofit continuing care retirement community in Exeter, New Hampshire, with aid of a landline phone and the U.S. Postal Service—no email or electronic wonders of any kind. He welcomes phone callers speaking slowly and distinctly at (603) 772-6055, and sends best wishes to all ’45s upstanding. He reports our elm on Tuck Drive in memory of a great class is doing well.

I was given notice of our loss of Henry N. “Hank” Blansfield, M.D., July 24. He was a valued fraternity brother of mine at Delta Tau Delta. After graduating cum laude from Dartmouth and Yale University School of Medicine in 1947, his medical career was in surgery with stints at New Haven, Connecticut, and Nashville, Tennessee, and in World War II as an ensign and captain in the U.S. Air Force in the Korean conflict and winding up as chief of the surgical service at March Field in Riverside, California. He then returned to his home base of Danbury, Connecticut, as a top surgeon for the rest of his career at the Danbury Hospital. He also spent time for 15 years as a clinical surgery instructor at Yale Medical School. Our condolences go out to his wife, Lorraine, and his four children.

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