Greetings from Hanover, once again. As winter temperatures begin to settle in the campus has been conspicuously devoid of winter’s most familiar calling card: snow.


Temperatures have fallen, the trees are without leaves and gray skies threaten, but to date it has not been a white Christmas on campus. 


Notwithstanding the obvious lack of snow, the campus in all other ways moves to the particular rhythm of winter—undergraduates and faculty alike complete with their heavy clothing, snow parkas, Bean boots and most significantly, abbreviated conversations outside.


Fresh from a Dartmouth Alumni Magazine board meeting last week, where our featured speaker was President Kim, I can only repeat what you have heard from multiple sources: Dartmouth is in good hands with this president.


Though no mail has arrived since our last column, my regular e-mails with our classmates suggest that all is well across the class of 1975 alumni world.


Nanc and I wish each and every one of you our best for a wonderful holiday season and new year and look forward to seeing many of you in 2011! As always, we’ll have the lights on for you whenever you can come by for a visit. 


In the meantime, keep in touch and do give us a call if you get to the neighborhood.


Jim Bildner, 5 Boardman Ave., Manchester, MA 01944; (617) 737-1100; jim_bildner@hks11. harvard.edu