This issue has to do with the usual class news and also the class dues. Where does your yearly contribution go? In the past we spent it on the president’s office intern, the alumni magazine, reunions, other special projects, and the Memorial Book Fund. We no longer contribute to the above. We do, however, contribute to the Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Center for Social Impact, Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, and the athletic sponsors program. The book fund has about $21,000 in it, and books are purchased in memory of deceased classmates. That will remain so until the last classmate drops from the College rolls.

This was all started in 1968 by the class, with George Bingham in charge until his death in 2014. The College then took over. The first member of our class to have a book given in his memory was Borkess Carroll, who died in 1993. There are 61 classes that also have memorial book funds, and at the end of 2017 our fund had assigned 499 books to deceased classmates. If family or friends wish to see an assigned book while visiting Hanover, it can be readily identified by the library. I am indebted to Tom Wolfe, the Memorial Book Fund manager, who sent me a wealth of information to pass on to you.

We are saddened to report the death of Samuel Doyle, M.D., on December 18, 2017; Harold Johnston on January 25; George Phippen on February 12; Theodore Platz Jr. on February 28; Robert T. Harvey on March 5; Albert G. Wilson Jr. on April 8; and Ernest Brazel on April 6.

—Joseph D. Hayes, P.O. Box 697, Rye Beach, NH 03871; jhayes697@yahoo.com