VP Harry Hampton is standing in as guest columnist: “Bud Street was on a roll composing our Class Notes, but he’s sidelined presently by severe sleep deprivation, and you are reading lines by his substitute. The other sad news is that John Halstead and John Jennings, roomies their last two years in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, died last year. They were two of DOC’s most avid chubbers.

“Halstead became a history professor at the University of Buffalo. His research efforts led him to find reasons to praise British colonialism in the Victorian era for its provision of good government, public education, and sanitation. Jennings helped to introduce Brown-Boveri ski lifts to Colorado slopes and was president of Redfield Gun Sights before intentionally undertaking a hermit’s life on the Rockies’ western slopes. During WW II Halstead rose from Marine private to captain. Jennings survived the 10th Mountain Division in Italy. Both were Tuck graduates.

“Did anyone ever give thought to how one’s Winter Carnival or Green Key date, arriving by train in White River Junction, Vermont, suffered on the rails? I’m reminded of Jean Gousha, Dick Fuller’s date for Green Key in April 1942. Luggage then was lugged, not rolled. She came from and returned to Chicago via Albany, then Boston, then White River. Dates from Wellesley, Skidmore, and Smith had it easy. Who remembers the dance band at Green Key that year?”

—Bud Street, 1212 Heatherwood, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675; (774) 994-8463