In October I asked ’67s the question: “If you could travel back in time, what advice would you give to your 18-year-old incoming freshman self?” Nick Mason: “If you’re going to take French I, II and III, apply yourself better.” Jim Rooks: “Your business here is learning!” Warren Cook: “While my frat experience was great, given the times I would suggest I bypass the Greek system. It narrows your focus, it’s too exclusive and expensive. Check to see how much each class costs. It might motivate you!” John Hager: “Drag yourself out of the basement and away from the year-round parties and beer.” Chris Smith: “Get to know professors. Spend time chatting with them if possible. Go to the library, but never sleep there.” Dean Ericson: “Look for mind stretching ‘outside the box’ course offerings and get to know as many fellow students as you can.” Rob Kugler: “It’s okay to feel nervous and have self-doubts, but don’t let either of them keep you from speaking your mind.” Paul Killebrew: “Don’t be so concerned about what you’re supposed to do,” and Bruce Pacht said, “Don’t be so afraid to engage things with which you’re not familiar.” Ethan Braunstein: “Don’t enter with a preconceived notion of what you want to study or what you want to be.” Chuck Hobbie: “Don’t worry so much about the opposite sex.” John Isaacs: “Wait 10 years to attend Dartmouth until coeducation begins,” and Ethan Braunstein also said he’d “advise myself to transfer to a coeducational college ASAP.” Bob Smith: “But for the draft, take a gap year—or maybe two.” Dan Freeman: “Take a break year.” Al Hine: “Take a year off and learn a trade that requires problem solving and working with your hands.” Win Johnson: “No. 1, take time off before you go to college (at least one year), preferably in some form of national or public service.” Dan Kraus: “Take more advantage of what extracurricular things the College has to offer instead of taking your studies so seriously.” John Hager also said: “Join the Outing Club and go camping and skiing and do any other outdoor activities that appeal to you.” Ed Kern: “Go to Dartmouth but just stay up at the Ravine Lodge.” Phil White, Rick Geissinger and Mike Tucker: “Go on the freshman trip!” John Lobitz: “Mix fun with work. Enjoy both but pay attention to your academics and, most importantly, take advantage of all the opportunities that Dartmouth has to offer.” John Manopoli: “It probably wouldn’t have mattered what advice I gave myself as an incoming freshman, because I would almost certainly have disregarded it.”

Here’s more sage advice: Come to the annual Boston dinner Saturday, February 3, at Longwood Cricket Club (contact me or Curt Anderson, curt.anderson@medical-billings.com) and contact John Lobitz (johnlobitz@gmail.com) to join us at CarniVail, March 1-4.

Here’s even more sage advice: You recently received a dues letter from Sam Ostrow and our new treasurer, Ed Gray. As the letter makes clear, the treasury needs to be rebuilt so that the class can continue all the important activities that keep us together. Please pay your dues as soon as you can and consider a donation to our checkoff funds, including the one-year treasury replenishment fund.

—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01338; larrylangford@mac.com