Carnival came and went with very little snow in Hanover, yet the resourceful students managed to build—as always—a respectable middle of the Green statue, this year a small replica of Rome’s Coliseum. And we know that Dartmouth students won five Carnivals.


New Hampshire, the Upper Valley and Dartmouth all played a big part in this year’s Olympic victories, and with my Norwegian background, I was proudly watching the medal counts with Rip.


As I am writing this it is snowing hard, and this morning we woke up to a winter wonderland. Just the right kind of snow for building a snowman or having a snowball challenge.


Rip:


“The evil that men do lives after us


The good is often buried with their brains”


The headlines shriek to tell us what’s disastrous


The good we have to dig from what remains.


—Mary Lougee Ripley, 80 Lyme Road, #411, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-6464