1975

As Nancy and I enjoy these all-too-short days of summer, our memories of graduation weekend are still so clear and vivid, made all the more memorable by having three generations of our Dartmouth family present on that remarkable sunny weekend in June.As we walked from event to event—to the President's House for drinks that first night, later the next day to the Bema for Class Day, then to the Tower Room at Baker Library for an art history reception (yes, they still have those chairs that brought on instant sleep when I still had so much work to do) and then finally to the Green on Sunday morning. I couldn't help myself from flashing back to our own graduation weekend some 33 years before. And when I looked at my dad from time to time, I could see he was remembering his own graduation, some 61 years earlier, with the same love and fondness for this place we all call Dartmouth.

These events are all too infrequent, but when they occur they are a reminder that lifewhatever it has given us, both the good and bad—has been very kind to us as well.

Now on to the mailbag.

Richard Lane reports that as he was perusing the information packet for a Society of Toxicology meeting in Seattle he realized that our own classmate Duncan Ferguson was receiving an award that night. Duncan is now at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is the head of the department of veterinary biosciences.

Richard and Duncan met for breakfast the next day and covered the past 30-plus years, as they talked about their days together in the chemistry lab. Both Richard and Duncan are doing well and from the picture that Richard sent along, they both look great."

Chris Peisch, a fellow field hockey ball dad this past season, also sent in a note. He says, "I continue to live in Frankfurt, Germany, having moved here while at Morgan Stanley in 1992.I have recently regained contact with the College through our oldest child, Virginia '11, matriculating last September. She plays field hockey and was a teammate of Lizzie Bildner'08.

"It has also given me a chance to visit the campus a few times and to see old friends and classmates John Donaghy and Chris Nice (whose daughter Katie is also a freshman and on the field hockey team). That meant that last fall there were three daughters of '75s on the 2007 Dartmouth field hockey team!" It was great to see Chris again after all these years and his daughter is just a pure delight both on and off the field.

And finally I received a note that our own Ron Cima has just joined Seward & Kissel LLP as a partner in its tax department. Seward is a leading New York law firm originally established in 1890 and has approximately 160 attorneys with offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Ron was previously a tax partner at Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he co-chaired the executive contract practice group and had earlier founded the firm's investment practice group. Congratulations, Ron.

that's all for now. Keep those cards and letters coming. Nancy sends her best, as do I.