Another enjoyable Homecoming Weekend concluded with many classmates and wives participating—in addition to myself and Marsha, those attending included Tom and Peter Rosenwald, Tom and Sandy Harper, Jack Billhardt, Bob and Pam Faulkner, Buddy and Rona Schattman, Harry Nutting, Bob and Lyn Slater, Stew and Kristin Wood, Doug and Ginger Keare, Jack Tamagni, Tom and Barb Bechler, Dave Stackpole, Darrel and Sharon Clowes, Bert Wittermore, Sonja Strong, Tom and Jane Healy and Roger Benson. At the outstanding luncheon prior to the football game we had a number of guests including some past and present class scholarship recipients (with Kesang Tashi ’70 there as coordinator) and many Dartmouth undergraduate veterans. A good time was had by all. 


It is now time to honor three classmates who have passed on. The Barbary Coast Dixieland Jazz Band returns and can be heard marching up Main Street led by Samson Occom. Behind the band this time are Jim Greene, Bill Tell and Hjalmar Peter Kolar. We bow our heads in silent tribute to these newly fallen classmates as the procession wends its way around the Green.


I received an e-mail from Ted Briggs regarding the difficult circumstances of Peter Kolar’s life and another one from Jack Crowley describing the outpouring of affection for Art Zich at his memorial service. Due to space limitations I must condense these inputs to the following—both of these classmates will be sorely missed. Both led extraordinary lives and will march around the Green forever. 


I close with the first stanza of a poetic limerick titled “Dartmouth Night.”


“Homecoming Weekend we attend,


When alumni descend to unbend;


Sea of green attire,


To see the bonfire,


When friendship and spirit transcend.”


—Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-3360; joel@poeticlimericks.com