Remember to make your plans to attend our 45th reunion in mid-June, when we will combine our celebration with the class of ’68. The reunion co-chairs Rick Willets and Paul Tuhus have already mailed and e-mailed information to you. If you have any questions you can contact them or any of the class officers. Those of you planning to attend please contact someone in the class who has not attended and urge them to join in this gathering. Sadly, when we review the number of classmates who are no longer with us since the last reunion, we recognize the limited chances we have of sharing time with those people we knew and enjoyed during our stay in Hanover. So please make this reunion a priority for your summer schedule.


Apparently ’tis the season to write books. In the last column we mentioned two new books by class authors and now we welcome Robert Garnett to the library with his newly published work Charles Dickens in Love, in which he describes the influence the three major loves of Dickens’ life had on his writings.


A belated report from our Homecoming weekend included community project work as Kelly Simpson, Bill Stableford and Rick Willets participated in a barn raising at the Dartmouth Organic Farm. Mark Anderson and John Leavitt with Sue were active on another project painting and staining. The class meeting included all the above as well as most of the officers plus Jim Staros, Greg Lau, Mark Bankoff, John Bisson and Peter Imber. The parade, bonfire and several gatherings for meals were enjoyed by all, despite the football loss to the Johns of Harvard. 


During a family holiday in the Solomon Islands to explore the history and culture of the area, Bill Coulson found a GI dog tag from World War II. After extensive research he traced the owner to North Carolina and traveled there to return the tag to the soldier’s family. 


David Prentice provided information on a front-page article that appeared on Homecoming Saturday in the Valley News about the museum quality collection of Dartmouth memorabilia Paul Tuhus has accumulated and saved from our four years in Hanover. To read the article contact David or me for a PDF of the story or you can meet Paul in June and ask him for a personal tour (or at least his description of the collection).


Our representative to the Alumni Council, Peter Elias, provided us all with a comprehensive report of the fall meeting, which included links to further our awareness of parts of the College like the Black Family Visual Arts Center and the Hood Museum. He also had a link to photos he had taken of the newly remodeled Hanover Inn, all of which you can find in his report on the class website.


Regrettably we have learned of the death of David Jacobsen. Dave passed away November 22 after battling esophageal cancer.


—Steve Larson, 9101 W 146th St., Overland Park, KS 66221; (360) 770-4388; wheat69@earthlink.net