First things first: Our (probably last) reunion (the 75th!) is Sunday to Tuesday, September 28-30, and the College is footing the bill. We get the inn (for two) and all we pay for is parking!

Got a call from John Schalles saying he is living in the same neighborhood Glenn Fitkin lived in. John is turning 100 and he says he’s “hoping to play some golf soon if I can find a player who has a driving license.” “Rusty” Rodriguez writes she “played the score of Les Misérables for friends!” Bill “Carp” Carpenter ’s wife, Terri, writes, “Summer is really here. Just had a fancy lunch at the ‘hot dog wagon’ in downtown Winfield. It was so great to sit ’neath a tent with people you’ve never seen before, brings us back to those good old days when strangers were only strangers until the first person says hello.” Carp is heading for Rochester, New York, to celebrate a joint birthday with his first grandchild, Kelly ’99. She will be 48 and he will be 96. Peter Johnson’s daughter, Sigrid, writes: “Dad turns 98 and is living in a senior residence in Ottawa. He is continuing to winnow his papers and enjoys spending time with his two toddler great-granddaughters.” Bob Wilkinson writes of the sad demise of his wife of 73 years, Carolyn. He has two Dartmouth children, Amy ’78 and Monty ’83. John Caldwell writes, “I am pretty good except I keep losing teeth! I’m struggling with this machine, win a few and lose many more.” Adrianne met our Mal Hill in a Gilbert and Sullivan group in New York known as The Blue Hill Troupe Ltd. She said Mal sang all his life, most recently in the choir of their church, Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.

Tom Tomasi’s wife, Barbara, writes that he passed recently at 98 but was “downhill skiing up until 86, played tennis and worked into his 90s.” Joel Leavitt writes he and Veda were welcomed at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, by children and “grands.” They will be there ’til October’s end and say, “See you all at reunion.”

Our class has the distinction of having seven members in the honor roll of the Bartlett Tower Society: Francis M. Austin Jr., William H. Carpenter, Phillip C. Chapalis, Kenneth F. Clark Jr., Richard A. Robie, K.V. Rothchild, and Robert S. Wilkinson Jr.

Finally, I send an apology to Peter Johnson for misquoting him in the last issue. It was in bad taste and had absolutely no relevance whatever to the news about his life in Canada. My sincerest apologies to any I may have upset or offended.

—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369 5879; smileytmr229@gmail.com