What a refreshing feeling to not have to wear a mask and respond to the question when asked, “Have you had your shots.” My reply is affirmative. On one occasion I was told that I had to carry proof, in my case in the form of the card given by the Veterans Administration in Manchester, New Hampshire. My first local bridge game, in more than a year, will have to wait, as I filed it away. We’ll see next week if reading the bridge hands in the paper carries over to face-to-face competition.

In the May/June issue I mentioned that my roommate, Gordon Grant, was the only V-12 member I knew who was called back for the Korean War. Within a week I received a call from Bob Ferguson ’47 in Tucson, Arizona. He told me of his time in the Navy V-12 for two semesters at the University of Miami, Ohio. The V-12 was then stopped there and he was shipped to the V-12 at Dartmouth. The V-12 was eventually stopped in Hanover and he graduated with the class of ’47. But, as he says, only after he and a few others had to petition the College for diplomas! At the start of the Korean War he was called back—into the Marine Corps! He spent 20 years in the service and retired as a major never having set foot on Parris Island. Will wonders never cease.

The same issue of DAM comments on the five sports that were eliminated from Dartmouth during Covid, only to be reinstated, resulting in the resignation of athletic director Harry Sheehy. I would have loved to have been a fly on that wall during that fiasco. Dartmouth certainly didn’t pin any medals on itself.

I received a note that Frank Weber died on May 11. During his time after graduation, he served the class well. His last role was as class agent, and his reports were always complete, though voluminous. They always brought a chuckle.

—Joe Hayes, P.O. 57, Rye Beach, NH 03871; (603) 964-6503; jhayes697@yahoo.com