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November-December 2026

Class Note 1979. “Hello for the first time in this century,” writes Tom Smith.

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September-October 2026

Class Note 1979. What were the chart-topping songs when we returned to campus in the fall of 1976 50 years ago? Remember “A Fifth of Beethoven”?

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July-August 2026

Class Note 1979. There are two questions I’ve been asking myself, our ’79 classmates, and random people around our age if they make eye contact: If you can retire, why would you work; if you can work, why would you retire?

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May-June 2026

Class Note 1979. How do you describe the end of our first year at Dartmouth?

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March-April 2026

Class Note 1979. “It’s very important to be one’s age,” poet W.H. Auden reminds us. “You get ideas you have to turn down—‘I’m sorry, no longer’; ‘I’m sorry, not yet.’ ”

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