June 13, 2016, is an important date for the class. This is the beginning date for our 60th reunion (Monday, June 13, and continuing through Thursday morning, June 16). There will probably be an extension but the venue, etc., have yet to be finalized. Dave Stackpole is the reunion chairman and any questions should be directed to him by phone (802-793-3613) or email (stack74@hotmail.com). One item of interest: There will be a contest for which every attendee is encouraged to bring as many past reunion favors as can be located—details and prize to be determined. This will not be a factor in your decision on attending—the key factors being the chance to see many old friends, to make some great new friends, to see Hanover and the College, to have a rousing good time and to reenergize old memories.

I interrupt to announce the Barbary Coast Jazz Band playing in honor of the passing of Clement Biddle Malin and Edward Harold Delaney Jr. As George Orwell said, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Therefore, as a past president of the class, Clem rates a special salute from Samson Occom as he leads the procession up Main Street and around the Green. All surviving classmates bow their heads in solemn tribute.

Next year is also a mini-mini-reunion of sorts for me and my wife, Al and Diane Friedman, Hal and Joan Gordon and Elliott and Alice Weinstein. Back in October 1999 these four couples took a cruise to Greece and the Greek Isles. In October 2016 we will all cruise once again through Burgundy and Provence.

In honor of the class reunion upcoming, from “Thoughts Evergreen,” my very first poetic limerick:

Dartmouth, my love’s evergreen,

And my memories remain just as keen;

Though the years are now flying,

Thoughts of Dartmouth undying,

At the start, at the end and between.

—Joel D. Ash, P.O. Box 1733, Grantham, NH 03753; (603) 863-3360; jash_125@comcast.net