It’s hard to believe that 2013 has come and gone and we’re already well into the new year. By the time you read this, Winter Carnival will have taken place, hopefully with snow this year. Phil Hanlon is settling in and for the first time in a long time The Boston Globe has forgotten about Dartmouth, which is a good thing. Among the Dartmouth things to be thankful for in the fall of 2013, aside from newly selected Rhodes scholars and the announcement of a new student innovation lab, was a newly inspired winning football team that finished 5-2 in the Ivy League with only two losses—one to Harvard by 3 points and one to Penn in the longest Ivy league game in history (four OT’s). Who knows what’s possible in 2014?!


One thing we do know is that 2014 is also the “leap year” for our 40th reunion. So mark your calendars for June 12-15—it will be great to see everyone again. Dave Cook and Tom “T.D.” Dennison, along with the rest of the reunion team, have lined up a great weekend of activities for us, so mark your calendars and send in your rsvp cards.


I see the usual cast of Dartmouth classmates all the time and can report that although Sandy Tierney, Blake Winchell and David Lampert all look much older than I do, all in all they don’t look that bad given their age.


All the best and hope to see many of you at the reunion if not before. 


—Jim Bildner, 5 Boardman Ave., Manchester, MA 01944; (617) 495-6513; jim_bildner@harvard.edu