1968

Last call: class 60th birthday party at the Silverado in Napa Valley, September 15 through 17. Walk-ins welcome! Per a late June conversation with Ed Schneider, we have committed attendees at around 35, with a bunch of "maybes" pondering attending. Overall hope is to hit around 50, so please consider joining the group. Ed says please call him (evenings) at (510) 465-9490 if you have any questions. Or if you want a guide around San Francisco during a visit there. And looking a little further ahead: our mini-reunion on October 12 and 13, for Homecoming. Plan on joining us if you can. Incoming legacies for the class of 2010 (per John Engelman e-mail): Alexander Knapp, son of David Knapp; Kevin Robinson, son of Steve Robinson; and Samuel Peck, son of your faithful (and happy and temporarily impoverished) secretary. One of the many checks I have been writing over this summer has been for the freshman trip. The current cost of these trips is $l4O per student, plus additional money for travel. It reminded me that funding our proposed 50th reunion class gift, of endowing this program, will be a wonderful, enduring gift for generations of future students. Keep making those donations and pledges!

As part of my continuing series of profiles of members of your executive committee: MikeLenahan, mini-reunion chairman. After Dartmouth he entered the Army as an enlisted man (his choice: he declined an officership) and served in Vietnam. When friend Steve Elliot also came out of the Army, they started the first of the "Room 6" reunions of their many Phi Delt friends (roommates and honorary roommates), including PeteBaylor, John Mercer, Pete Fahey, Jim Lawrie, JohnPfeiffer, Tony Marzoni, Taylor Waggenseil and BobSchley, among others. Featured food at the reunions: moose meat. After the Army he worked briefly at First National Bank of Boston, during which time he met and married Betty in 1971. He attended law school at Stetson University in Florida, then worked in Washington, D.C., for five years. In 1980 they moved to Concord, New Hampshire, where he joined the firm of Ransmeier and Spellman, from which he retired in 2005. He spends time perfecting his golf and serving on various boards for the local symphony, opera company soup kitchen and, of course, the 1968 executive committee. Betty got her degree in psychology during their time in Florida and serves as a part-time school psychologist. Mike and Betty have three children: daughter Rosie, a Bates and Brown graduate, teaches in Maine; son Will works on Cape Cod; and son Dan is a recent Haverford grad who lives in Philadelphia.

Keep the news coming!

157 Sandwich Road, Plymouth, MA02360-2503; (508) 746-5894; david.peck@childrens.harvard.edu