There has been a bevy of comments about the recent rumble at the office of the College’s president. Herewith, comments quoted from John Sloan Dickey’s Convocation in 1956 to the class of 1960, “Reason alone can lead us to positive answers to problems. Mobs, whether composed of students or savages, can only destroy and never create, because they are a mechanism of hate, rather than of mind. There are few things more fundamental to a man who aspires to the power on learning than an acquired distaste for mobs. This is especially true for the American student, because it is his lot to inherit an appointed task of personal and national leadership that simply cannot be performed in hot-headed self-indulgence.” 


June 8-11, 2015, has been set aside for our 55th reunion. Messrs. Gundy and Chase have already begun the task of planning and entreat you all to plan as well to be there. There are nigh unto 600 of we band of brothers left alive and it would be a shocker if the better part of us actually showed up.


Alas, recent notes from the alumni office report the passing of Pete Asensio, Mickey Straus, Robert Harvey and John Walker.


Joe Batchelder was “musing again in 2014. I waited in anticipation of the winter Olympic Games, a favorite because I had taken advantage of the Dartmouth Skiway and frolicked with the Winter Carnival every year. In 1964, after I had completed my military obligation (military police lieutenant) and was living at home while trading securities in Boston with a major over-the-counter firm, I was sitting with a TV dinner tray with my mother and watching the opening ceremony of the 1964 Winter Olympics. Tears were rolling down my face as I was so happy and proud of the U.S. athletes marching to Old Glory. Little, of course, did I know that I would be doing the same thing for my country in Tokyo, Japan, six months later as a member of the U.S. yachting team. On the way to Tokyo, a stop in L.A. for orientation and fitting of uniforms, the U.S. team marched down the field where the Rose Bowl was just played. The sad news: I never sailed with Sid [Goldman, I presume] at Dartmouth, but I did win an Olympic medal (50 years ago).” Joe has been president of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest Florida since 1996.


And H. Nicholas Muller III has two recent publications for your perusal: As editor, The Vermont Difference: Perspectives from the Green Mountain State (Woodstock Foundation and Vermont Historical Society, 2014), and as author, Inventing Ethan Allen (University Press of New England, 2014), with coauthor John J. Duffy.


Former class secretary Spenser Morgan reports with some just pride, “I will have two grandchildren attending Dartmouth in September, as Lindsay’s brother, Brian Keare, will be a member of the class of 2018! Wow!”


—John Mitchell, 300 Grove St., #14, Rutland, VT 05701; jmm00033@comcast.net