At the end of the last class column I promised I would update you on the Dartmouth ski team and the NCAA championships at Oak Hill. Dartmouth came in third behind Utah and Colorado.
Greetings from Hanover. The Fayerweather dorms have been gutted and are receiving a much-needed upgrade. The new dorm on East Wheelock Street is underway and will provide additional beds very soon.
I enjoyed reading the entertaining article about Vincent Canby in the November/December issue of the magazine. His quotes about movies are as timely and wise today as they were 50 years ago.
Edward Crane ’45 died on May 11. He was born in Burlington, Vermont, and graduated from Dartmouth and the University of Vermont Medical School before serving in the Army and Air Force.
John Alexander MacDonald Jr. ’45 died on November 25, 2013, after a long decline from Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. John grew up in Waban, Massachusetts, graduating from Newton High School, followed by a year at Hebron Academy.
Robert Livingston Steiner ’45, economist, businessman and senior staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission, died on October 26 in Washington, D.C.