For this issue we asked, “What moment do you wish you had a photo of, but don’t?” As Richard Chu put it in his reply, “We are so flooded with digital images now, even ones that should be meaningful to us become so repetitive and transient; very few seem to have lasting value.” So many of you responded with undocumented memories that this topic will span two issues. Chu went on to say he wished he had images of “breakfast with Malcolm X at Cutter and of an evening session with Allen Ginsberg.” Phil Curtis and Wayne Byer each want an image of their meeting as freshmen at matriculation with President Dickey in the Tower Room. Dave Sides wishes he “had a photo of me receiving my diploma. My folks were too far away from the stage to get a picture.” Jock Gill wants a picture of students being blocked from physically disrupting George Wallace’s presentation in May of 1967. John Isaacs would like to have “a photo of our stunned reaction and gloom when we heard that President Kennedy was shot and then learned that he had died.” Warren Cook wants a picture of “my commissioning at the Bema.” Gary Atkins wishes he still had the photo taken with Congressman James Cleveland, who was impressed by the election data trend analysis his BASIC program had created. Likewise, Ron Fagin “would love to have a photo of myself with John Kemeny.” Bill Judd would like to have “pictures of those faculty and staff who were ‘special’ during my five years on campus, not just portraits but in their work environments.” Nick Mason wants the image of “when we ‘won’ the tug-of-war with about 2,000 seniors.” Dick Clapp would like a photo “from the top of Moosilauke at night, with a full moon lighting the rocks at the summit.” Similarly, Bruce Pacht wishes he had “a photo of all the guys crammed into the bunkhouse on our first night at the base of Moosilauke.” Bill Yaggy wants a photo from a weekend on Cape Cod with Ben Moore and family after the Interfraternity Play Contest, “walking along the beach for miles on a stormy evening.” Another thespian in that year’s contest, Dave McMahill wants the photo of him when he “played ‘Death’ in Tri-Kap’s entry. The Daily D said I was ‘convincing.’ Never quite knew how to take that.” Steve Guch and Rob Kugler want a photo from Hums—Rob wants one with the “guy on the motorcycle riding up to the steps of Dartmouth Hall as Phi Gam sang ‘My Hog is Bigger than Your Hog.’ ” But Sam Ostrow spoke for many when he said, “I am very certain of the images I am glad don’t exist.” Meanwhile pay your dues (!), join the crew for CarniVail in Vail, Colorado, March 2-4 (contact John Lobitz, johnlobitz@gmail.com) and come to the Washington, D.C., dinner March 24 (contact John Isaacs, jdi@clw.org, or Bob Burka, rburka@foley.com).

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