What a non-winter! Hanover has had 25 inches of snow vs. the normal 55 inches. Many Carnival events were canceled. Imported snow created the sculpture on the Green; cross country was moved to Stowe, Vermont; and only slalom races took place at the Dartmouth Skiway—largely on man-made snow. Dartmouth lost first place to the University of Vermont. Hanover’s party at Occom Pond on Saturday was a great success, as was the polar bear swim.


We have received a wonderful letter from Bay Lauris ByrneSim ’15 thanking our class for our financial aid. Bay is enthusiastic about all Dartmouth offers and has become active in many areas of campus life.


An interesting recent graph showed the vital importance of the Dartmouth College Fund alumni contributions, which cover 12 percent annually of the Dartmouth budget, thus helping to bridge the gap between what each student pays (44 percent) and the actual yearly cost ($101,890) of his/her education.


Big excitement at Kendal at Hanover! On February 6 the recently published collection of the WW II memories of 56 residents, World War II Remembered (managing editor, Clint Gardner ’44; with Mary Jenkins, wife of John, one of the editors), had a three-minute spot on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Subsequently there were 200,000 hits about the book on the NBC website from some of the viewing audience of 10 million. All this generated a tremendous boost in sales! 


I regret to report the death of Edward Clarke Ingraham Jr. Our condolences to his family.


—John Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.kendal.org