1961

The Alexis Boss Tennis Center, gift of Ron and Marge Boss, is rising just east of Thompson Arena. It is named in memory of their daughter, Allie '93, who lost her fight with cancer in 1995. She was an all-Ivy singles and doubles player who was team captain for two years.

For those of you who haven't been back to Hanover since graduation, the Tennis Center is just one of many athletic facilities that have grown up east and south of Alumni Gym. (It's worth coming back to our 40th next year just to see all the new buildingsathletic, academic, social, dormitories and other facilities. But of course we hope you'd like to see your classmates too.)

Anyway, according to the Big Green SportsNews, the Boss Tennis Center will feature six synthetic surface courts, locker rooms for both men's and women's tennis teams, a varsity tennis suite, coaches' offices, and additional locker rooms for community and recreational tennis players. It will be a far cry from our day, when tennis teams had to contend with uncertain weather that often prevented practice until late in the season.

The clipping was passed along by Ron's former roommate, Oscar Arslanian, who writes, "All is most busy in Hollywood. This past year has been a whirl, very electric, invigorating times as we are in the midst of a $1 billion renaissance." (Can't you just tell he is chairman of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce??)

Oscar reports that he and class projects chair David Birney went to see MosesPendleton a couple of weeks ago, and he adds, "I would love to see a Performing Arts Evening as part of our 40th with David and Moses doing their thing. It would be an outstanding evening and might serve to raise dollars for the Performing Arts Fund."

There's an opportunity for another minireunion before our 40th. The class of 1963 and the Dartmouth Club of Washington are putting on "Springtime in the Shenandoah" for all the classes of the 1960s. It will be on Saturday, May 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Skyland Lodge in Shenandoah National Park in Luray, Va., about a two-hour drive west of Washington, D.C. It will cost $65, including a lunch. (Overnight accommodations are available both Friday night and Saturday night.) There will be a Saturday afternoon (come-as-you-are) Hiker's Dance (with swing dance lessons included).

They're also promising time to chat with classmates; "enjoy a walk or hike in the beautiful woodlands, see the deer and rare birds, smell the flowers and pine air, and listen to the mountain streams." So it should be a wonderful opportunity for all the '61s in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and even states a bit further away to get together.

(There also will be activities Saturday evening and Sunday after the mini-reunion officially ends.) Additional details are available on our class Web site, www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/61/.

I just received a clipping from the Rappahannock Record that Sam Nuckols has been elected to the board of trustees of Chesapeake Academy. An architect, Sam already had been working for the academy in designing a 13,800-square-foot Chesapeake Hall and renovations in the school's Early Childhood Center.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1015; rconn@wfabmc.edu