We located two more class authors. John Bird compiled a collection of 23 oral histories in Twin Killing: The Bill Mazeroski Story. John spent a decade researching, publishing, and promoting the book, which became a regional bestseller. John considers Hall-of-Famer Maz, the master of the double play, “perhaps the best fielder ever.” Peter Kenworthy wrote a short historical fiction novel titled Bank Job, based on an infamous bank robbery in Telluride, Colorado, in 1929. The bank president pulled off the heist, saving depositors’ funds before the institution collapsed. Peter spent three years doing the research and writing, while holding down a full-time banking job, raising a family…and procrastinating. “I once heard it said that the hardest thing about writing is cleaning the refrigerator. Too true.”

Tim Carroll missed reunion “for the best possible reason: baseball.” His son, Ryan, was the starting catcher for the Wellesley (Massachusetts) High School varsity team in the state Division 1 championship game—“an unforgettable experience after an improbable playoff run.” Ryan will matriculate at Dartmouth this fall, while his twin sister begins at Cornell, the alma mater of Tim’s wife. Tim anticipates some intra-family fun during green-red athletic contests.

In June five ’77 women gathered in Andover, Massachusetts, for their 45th high school reunion at Abbot Academy. Sarah Bayldon Beaman is an information technology specialist at the U.S. Department of Justice, lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and commutes—30 miles round-trip by bicycle each day. She has three children and one new grandchild. Being a grandmother is “fantastic!” Jenifer McLean Cooke lives in Andover and teaches English to young elementary school learners. She has recently enjoyed traveling with husband George and their two grown children. She is brushing up her French for their next expedition. (Parlez-vous français?) Down the road in Watertown, Massachusetts, Bets Kent revels in her first two years of retirement and marriage, while learning the craft of basketry at as many workshops as she can manage. Lucinda Leach teaches art at Edmund Burke, a progressive independent school in Washington, D.C. She and her photojournalist husband, Jeffrey Macmillan, have raised three sons: an illustrator, a cinematographer, and a painter/print-maker (Dartmouth ’14) who is now a teaching assistant in the art department at Dartmouth. Betsy Fauver Stueber lives in Cleveland. She serves on several nonprofit boards and as our head class agent along with John Ogden.

We reached out to Chicago classmates. Our thanks to Doug Cogswell, the lone respondent, who recounted being recruited to Chicago 26 years ago for a quick technology turnaround. It was, but others followed. The current one has taken longer; this is year 16. Doug became heavily involved in his mega-church (20,000 weekly attendees) and co-led the effort to break it into 60 sub-communities, where fellowship really happens. He has also led initiatives in Zambia to connect local churches to improve educational, health, and economic opportunities in rural villages lacking governmental alternatives. Go to www.ZealForZambia.com for information. His grandson “was born wearing a Red Sox jersey.” Play ball!

—Robin Gosnell, 31 Elm Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540; robins.nest@icloud.com; Eric Edmondson, Signal Hill Capital LLC, 425 California St., Suite 19, San Francisco, CA 94104; eweedmondson@gmail.com; Drew Kintzinger, 2400 M St. NW, Apt. 914, Washington, DC 20037; akintzinger@hunton.com