Homecoming Weekend was a rousing success in every way possible. Festivities kicked off Friday night with drinks and barbecue at Three Guys restaurant. This was followed by the parade of classes with our traditional 1956 hay wagon. The class meeting on Saturday morning was well attended with Tom Rosenwald, Jack Billhardt, Bob and Pam Faulkner, Joel Ash, Bob Grossman, Buddy Schattman, Darrel Clowes, Linc Spaulding, Harold Gordon, Elliott Weinstein, Doug and Ginger Keare, Jack Talmagni, Bob and Lyn Slater, Stew Wood, Dave Stackpole, Bert Whittemore, Howard Sodokoff, Rick Webb and Bill Behrens participating. Many then attended the Dartmouth vs. Yale football game and watched our team beat previously unbeaten Yale.
I now interrupt these pleasantries to bring you the Barbary Coast Jazz Band playing in honor of Stanford Klapper and William King Howenstein, who passed away this summer. Samson Occom dressed in green buckskins leads the funeral procession and band up Main Street and then three times around the Green. All surviving classmates bow their heads in silent and heartfelt tribute.
The class dinner at the Hanover Inn on Saturday night began with cocktails as we mingled with a half dozen members of Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association and a number of class scholars. Joining the previously mentioned were Roger Benson, Dick and Sally Kurts, Marsha Ash, Joan Gordon and Alice Weinstein. Yours truly recited two poetic limericks—the first titled “A Dartmouth Inaugural,” as recently published in the class newsletter, the second titled “Veneration of Essence,” a New Hampshire poem with a Dartmouth ending. The first stanza of this six-stanza poem follows.
 What makes New Hampshire so great?
This place that we so venerate.
One poet’s perspective,
On essence reflective,
Subjective true view of this state.
—Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-3360; joel@poeticlimericks.com