1965

First off, a belated happy new year to all. One way to make it even happier, for your classmates as well as yourself, would be to join them for one of several reunions scheduled this calendar year.

The biggest by far, of course, is the 40th, to be held in June on the Hanover Plain. It is shaping up to be a winner. Pete Frederick and Roger Hansen, co-chairmen, report rapidly increasing activity as planning heats up. The reunion committee has settled on "Still On the Road" as the theme for the idyllic sojourn to Hanover on June 13-16. Hopes are high for an unusually large turnout since this opportunity to catch up with old and new friends is a special one, coming, as it does, in a period when many of us are going through, or will soon be going through, retirement transition. Plans include dinners at favorite campus landmarks, symposiums, "stretching activities" and a one-time performance of the 1965 Players at the Hop. Clear your schedule and be there.

Two other opportunities to reunite with classmates this year for fun times are our annual Vail ski trip, which is right around the corner, March 4-6 (although many come early or stay later or both), and the annual fall mini-reunion, which in this year will coincide with Homecoming Weekend, October 21-23. To make reservations for the fall mini, contact Pierces Lodge in Etna, New Hampshire, directly. For more information on the Vail mini pick up the phone now and call Steve Waterhouse at (603) 643-6530 or e-mail him at stephen.waterhouse.65@alum. dartmouth.org.

Speaking of Steve, he recently published Dartmouth's Dedicated Alumni, the preparation of which consumed three years of his life. The book has 320 pages full of details and some 250 photos of the most important alumni and events at Dartmouth College for some 250 years of its history.

Another small world, or "though 'round the girdled earth" story: Mike Jubien writes that last summer he moved from the University of California at Davis, California, after 16 years there, to Gainesville, Florida. When moving into his new house he met the couple next door and their new baby. The fathers dad—the proud grandfather—was there and Mike "met" him too: None other than our own class treasurer, Steve Fuller!

Did anyone else notice the lovely color photo of Baker Tower behind the snow sculpture of the Cat in the Hat on the quad in the December 13 edition of Newsweek?

We lost Al Hotchkin last year. Obit details elsewhere in this edition, but his manner of passing warrants some words here. In 1982 Al opened the International Wine Center above Tastings, his wine bar on West 55th Street. In 1988 he opened a small wine shop in Greenwich Village that dealt in only burgundies. It moved into a much larger shop in Chelsea in late 2002. The Burgundy Wine Cos. has comfortable leather couches, excellent wine books and wine-sampling luncheons. It was at one of those luncheons that Al suddenly collapsed and died. We hate to see him go, but he did us all proud—he did it with class!

Deer Hollow Way, #414,Fairfax,VA 22031; mcgrutherk@aol.com

REUNION June 13-16 2005