It isn’t officially winter yet we have had several snowstorms and the grounds are all white. Christmas will have come and gone when you read this, and we still have it to look forward to. The Christmas tree on the Green was especially beautiful this year and it was shining brightly at the time of the Alumni Council meeting.


In mid-December we attended the gala banquet in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Dartmouth Outing Club. More than 200 people sat down to a fine dinner at the McLane Ski Lodge, Dartmouth Skiway, in Lyme, New Hampshire.


The reminiscences and speeches were many, and the highlight was former dean Ralph Manuel ’58 presenting the Alumni Award to Put Blodgett ’53—a true Mr. Dartmouth. Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley held its annual Christmas party in Thayer Hall, where friends gathered for holiday cheer.


Rip:


“If my address were White House, USA


And I were master of the speaker’s art


I’d try to be so careful what I say


And keep my brass and congressmen apart


One knows the facts and doesn’t try to hide ’em


The other truths, but simply can’t abide ’em.”


—Mary Lougee Ripley, 80 Lyme Road #411, Hanover, NH 03755