Dear ’72s, though the snow should be dark and deep in Vermont when you read this, I send you fall greetings from Vermont, where the colors have now peaked and there’s been a flurry of activity in Hanover. Don’t worry about my snow shoveling strain as I will be in Naples, Florida, when you receive this Class note.

Your class executive committee, led by Bill Price, is putting together a memorable 50th reunion June 10-12. Please make an effort to attend and march with your class at the 2022 Commencement and our 50th reunion! Your executive committee has also established an exciting class project around the soon-to-be-opened Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society. As some of you know, we are blessed to have both Arthur and Sandra Irving as adopted members of our class and wish to express our gratitude for the amazingly generous gift to Dartmouth by the Irvings. Our class project is to raise $500,000 to endow a speaker’s program at the institute that will be open to the greater Dartmouth family and the Hanover community. There will be more to come on this project, which has raised $261,000 as of this writing, and with the matching grant by a generous classmate of up to $100,000, we hope to reach our lofty goal soon after, if not before, you receive this issue. Please consider a gift to both our class project and to the Dartmouth College Fund. Let’s provide Dartmouth with a fond remembrance of the class of 1972 on our 50th!

On October 9 the Dartmouth football team (now 5-0) put together an exciting overtime victory over Yale for our Homecoming, which also honored the ’70 and ’71 football seasons. The football team during our participation years, ’69, ’70, and ’71, put together a winning record of 25-2-0, the best in the “modern” era since 1956. The ’70 season team went undefeated and unscored upon during the final four games, with six shutouts, winning the Lambert Trophy for the best team in the East and boasting a 14th ranking in the country! Returning classmates celebrating their football experience were Wayne Young, Jack Manning, Buddy Lynch, Bob Nycz, Norm Zeitchick, Marty Cain, Brendan O’Neill, and Joe Davis. Brendan and Jack spoke at the post-game dinner, representing our class in fine fashion. Jack read a letter from former Heisman Trophy contestant Ed Marinaro, of Cornell, who finished second in the polling largely due to the Big Green defense. Ed’s letter concluded with the statement that Cornell has another talented Marinaro running back who will test Dartmouth’s vaunted defense.

On October 16 the rugby club celebrated 70 years of a winning tradition. Through the years the rugby team has been populated by plenty of current and former football players who have helped the rugby team attain excellence in that club sport. For example, Dartmouth rugby has defeated Harvard 56 times as against 18 losses, including tournament play.

Please stay well and keep in touch. We hope to see many classmates return for our June reunion.

—Sheldon Prentice, 2311 Tradition Way, #102, Naples, FL 34105; shelprentice72@gmail.com