If you are reading this (and were not in Hanover October 8-10) you missed one terrific mini. It started at Jesse’s restaurant on Friday night with Bill “Carp” Carpenter, “Prez” Kirby and Brownlee McKey, Doug and Meredith Smith, Joe Medlicott and Stephanie Reinenger, “Jilly” Harned, Joanie Mcilwain, Joel Leavitt and Veda DeKoff, Rebecca Ruggles, Victoria Hicks (daughter of Ort ’49), and your scribe. The dinner was followed by a very spirited parade led (we were right up front!) by the touch of class (clad in the Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat fedoras): Joel, Bob K. and Brownlee, Carp, Rebecca and Vicky, and some weirdo strumming and plucking a banjo, singing Dartmouth songs unending all the way through town. It was a hoot and a half! Saturday was statement time at the splendid game (the team’s fourth win, 24-17, in overtime) with periodic cymbal clashes and Dartmouth songs with banjo unending. Yes, indeed, we made yet another statement. Attendees were Carp, Kirby and McKey, Joel, Jilly, Joanie, Becky, Vicky, and me. Saturday night was the traditional banquet, this time at the Norwich (Vermont) Inn with the usual cast: Joe, Stephanie, Joel, Veda, Carp, Doug and Meredith, Joanie and Jilly, “Rusty” Rodriguez Harlow, my Rebecca, Bob Kirby and Brownlee McKee, and guest Ann Hartman. Could this be topped? Yes indeed, with Doug and Meredith doing Sunday up par excellence with a killer brunch at their attractive lodge in Enfield, New Hampshire. Joe and Stephanie, Joel and Veda, Bob K. and Brownlee, Bill Carpenter, Rebecca and I (very happy houseguests for the weekend) were all well-fed; truly a delightful way to end a delightful weekend. Our next mini will be September 30 to October 2, the Penn game. Our 75th is sometime in October 2025.

We have lost yet another classmate, Frederick W. Haubrich.

—Tom “Smiley” Ruggles, 8-5 Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742; (978) 369-5879; smileytmr@aol.com