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As we write in late February, this year’s Naples, Florida, mini-reunion is slated for March 13. Organized by Barbara and Roger Bruttomesso and graciously hosted by Penny and Bill Allyn at their Royal Poinciana Club, the dinner’s early signups included Cynthia and Dave Chapin; Liz and Skip Coggin; Bill Cutcliffe and granddaughter Emily; Allen Ertel’s widow, Kay; Pat and Fred Hildebrandt; Gloria and Vince Hovenac; Hank Milton; Vicki and Tryg Myhren; Wes and Paul Robinson; Barbara and Dave Sharrock; Linda and John Trimble; and Walt Yusen’s widow, Jane, with husband Dick Norris.

Virginia and Pete Kelsey have endowed the directorship position of the Hood Art Museum in Hanover to a sum “in excess of $10 million,” says the College. Wah-hoo-wah! for the Rev. Pete and talented sculptor “Wink.”

We note the passing of four classmates. U.S. Congressman Allen Ertel, who missed unseating Pennsylvania’s governor by just 100,000 votes in 1982, died on November 19, 2015. February’s Sound & Fury carried his full obituary, with the following three to appear in the spring newsletter.

Frank Gado sent us the Boston Globe obituary of Delta Kappa Epsilon brother Jim Sullivan, a Massachusetts real estate developer who died of congestive heart failure November 15, 2015.

John Murphy wrote of Leon Sinclair’s death on November 28, 2015, in Olympia, Washington. Pete, John’s fellow grad at Torrington (Connecticut) High School, was a world-class mountaineer and rescue leader who went west to teach literature at Evergreen College—and was a loyal non-graduate ’58.

Charlie Pierce noted the death of close friend Dave Roak on January 27 in Spruce Head, Maine, after a long illness. Widow Sandra wrote that Dave died of frontotemporal dementia.

Skip Coggin and Liz sold their sumptuous home in Naples to live full-time at the Mather, a “lovely life-care community” in Evanston, Illinois, where he plays tennis with neighbor Gersh Abraham. Count Skip and Pete Flowers amongst possible attendees at the October 28-30 Homecoming mini in Hanover.

My own “lovely (and lively!) life-care community” near children just west of Philadelphia is the new place to send ’58 news and views—please.

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