At Homecoming Weekend a small but enthusiastic group of 1956 classmates, wives, and other relatives gathered at the Hanover Inn to renew college ties and enjoy the festivities. Among the attendees, in alphabetical order, were Joel Ash and wife Marsha, Jack Crowley and friend Suzanne Lyons, Bob Faulkner and wife Pam, Kirby Fowler and wife Pat, Tom Harper and brother Jigger ’57 as well as niece Barbara, John Higgs and wife Helen as well as granddaughter Emily, Dick Layman and wife Helen, Harry Nutting, Tom Rosenwald andgranddaughter Ali, Rona Schattman and daughter Karin, Linc Spaulding, and Stew Wood and wife Kirsten. Most of this list attended the 63rd class meeting held on Saturday morning along with a lovely breakfast.

Food and drinks were covered by the class and all of the arrangements were first class. Harry Nutting deserves a big round of applause for organizing an excellent weekend. Arrangements were made for a wide screen TV in the class room at the inn and those who chose the indoor option enjoyed a 42-to-10 win by the Big Green over Yale. Our first foreign scholarship student, Tashi Kesang ’70, and his wife, Tse, joined us for dinner on Saturday night.

I received notices from the College of the passing of four classmates: Francis X. Dineen, C. Burton “Burt” Kellog II, Frank G. Leavitt II, and Alan Voulgaris. These four classmates follow the Barbary Coast jazz band as it plays a mournful tune and marches up Main Street led by Samson Occom dressed in buckskins. As they march three times around the Green, we, the living, all bow their heads in silent tribute.

I close with the last stanza of a poem titled “The Green Heart.”

All join in when the Dartmouth songs start,

As alumni we each play our part;

School ties are maintained,

Loyal feelings ingrained,

In each chest you will find a green heart.

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