Our class has been quite busy. * Scott Morrill and his wife, Jane (MacKenzie ’83), enjoy retirement together. They went to Peru for six weeks and took Spanish lessons, volunteered at a dog shelter, and did some sightseeing. This winter they visited friends who were housesitting a charming cottage in Provence. They returned to their home in Portland, Ore., before all the COVID-19 issues created travel chaos. Scott has been asked to come out of retirement by his former employer, the Oregon State Bar, where he will be helping analyze ethics complaints about Oregon lawyers. This is the third part-time stint he has done since he retired! * Sam Staley has big news about the April publication of his book, The Beatles and Economics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Making of a Cultural Revolution. April 10 was the 50th anniversary of the Beatles break-up, and Sam’s book does a deep dive into the band’s innovative process to understand, and explain, why they were able to sustain their path-breaking contributions to pop music, why they broke up, and why other bands such as the Beach Boys and Rolling Stones could not match the pace or the breadth of their music. Sam hoped to make it to New England to visit Colby friends in May or June, and he was trying to have a coronavirus-free spring break skiing with Don Gallo ’83 and Dawna Eastman-Gallo ’83. * Eric Broadbent and Susie Macrae ’83 jumped over the downsizing hurdle to Florence, Mass., from their 1850s farmhouse of nearly 14 years in Harvard, Mass., from where their three sons went off to college: oldest Charlie ’12 and youngest Scotty ’16 to Colorado College, middle son Jackson to Colby, Class of ’13. * And for me, you read the Colby Magazine article about my therapy dog, Remy. Well, since that article, Remy was awarded the American Kennel Club’s highest distinction, level 4, for his therapy work, and, most significantly, won the Shining Star Award from the Collie Club of America. The Shining Star award is given once a year, internationally, to the top therapy/service dog and usually goes to a collie who is about 7 years old. Remy was 3 when he got the award! I tried to explain to him what an honor he had won, and while he didn’t quite understand, he did ask if that meant he would get extra treats. Unfortunately, with the coronavirus, his awards ceremony in New York was canceled, but he will be at Sunnybank in New Jersey (Lassie’s former home!) in August to see his peers then.