Don Smith is no longer driving, but is mobile, healthy, still “mean and nasty,” and enjoying the weather in Los Angeles. He was very sorry to hear of John Hatheway’s passing, and we reminisced about when he, I, and Sonny Drury lived in the Tuck School dorms in 1949. He stayed in close touch with John and would get together for dinner with him and Judy during their annual visits to the L.A. area. He met with Sonny and Joan on occasions in Houston and commented on Sonny’s remarkable memory. Carl Felsenfeld joined the Fordham Law School faculty in 1983 and was teaching commercial law courses fulltime until he suffered a stroke two or three years ago. He now lives mostly indoors on Riverside Drive and says he has trouble remembering words (who doesn’t), but sounded vigorous and articulate over the phone. Incidentally, Judith’s name does not appear on our ’48 directory or the College list, but they have been happily married for nearly 40 years. I told Hank Woodward he could not join my LinkedIn network because I don’t have one. I casually asked what he was doing and found out one heck of a lot! In the past year he’s had a book titled Up River, Down River, Out to Sea published by Nook Press and available on Amazon. The story is about growing up in a commercial fishing community at the mouth of the Merrimac River, which flows southeast from New Hampshire into the Atlantic at Newburyport, Massachusetts. Undaunted, he has finished writing another book whose publication is only delayed by being digitalized (whatever that means). It’s to be titled Canoeing Guide to the Geology of the BWCA Quetico, which is a wilderness area in northern Minnesota and Canada. Tad and Georgette Comstock live in the same very attractive assisted care retirement community in Exeter, New Hampshire, as Ron Spiers. Tad uses a walker, enjoys the community, and plays some duplicate bridge to stay sharp. They are visited by lots of family and had 17 for Easter. Don’t forget the 70th and the Hanover Inn hospitality.

—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (781) 801-6716; djkurr@verizon.net