Class Note 1975
Issue
Greetings from sunny Carmel, California, where it’s 55 and dry as I write this. Not bad for early January. Nancy and I just returned from a quick visit to Hanover (where it was 12 degrees with a wind chill of zero). Despite the cold the campus was absolutely beautiful with Christmas lights, snow on the ground and undergraduates in shorts and flip-flops—yes, education is definitely wasted on the young.
On the College front, the early admissions season just finished with the largest pool in the College’s history—1,594, of whom 461 were admitted, 83 of whom are legacies. The large accepted pool was in part driven by a decision to increase the size of the incoming class by about 50 students. Early indications suggest that applications for general admission will again be at the high end of recent years—once again demonstrating the College’s position as one of the leading educational institutions in the world.
As many of you also know Dartmouth, like its Ivy peers, has to close a significant budgetary gap driven in large part by losses in its endowment. Although none of these cuts are desired, I think everyone agrees the president has done a good job balancing out some difficult priorities—and all in all, the College remains well positioned for the long term.
As is usual the mailbag is light (read empty), so I’ll refrain from making things up about each of you—but fair warning, send those e-mails with updates or next column will be a work of creative fiction.
In the meantime know that your reunion committee continues hard at work at making our 35th a special occasion and one worth traveling to. For those of you who may not have marked the date down on your calendar, it begins June 14.
Nancy sends her best, as do I, for a healthy, happy and peaceful new year. We look forward to seeing many of you in June, if not before.
—Jim Bildner, 5 Boardman Ave., Manchester, MA 01944; (617) 737-1100; jbildner@tpi.org
Mar - Apr 2010
Greetings from sunny Carmel, California, where it’s 55 and dry as I write this. Not bad for early January. Nancy and I just returned from a quick visit to Hanover (where it was 12 degrees with a wind chill of zero). Despite the cold the campus was absolutely beautiful with Christmas lights, snow on the ground and undergraduates in shorts and flip-flops—yes, education is definitely wasted on the young.
On the College front, the early admissions season just finished with the largest pool in the College’s history—1,594, of whom 461 were admitted, 83 of whom are legacies. The large accepted pool was in part driven by a decision to increase the size of the incoming class by about 50 students. Early indications suggest that applications for general admission will again be at the high end of recent years—once again demonstrating the College’s position as one of the leading educational institutions in the world.
As many of you also know Dartmouth, like its Ivy peers, has to close a significant budgetary gap driven in large part by losses in its endowment. Although none of these cuts are desired, I think everyone agrees the president has done a good job balancing out some difficult priorities—and all in all, the College remains well positioned for the long term.
As is usual the mailbag is light (read empty), so I’ll refrain from making things up about each of you—but fair warning, send those e-mails with updates or next column will be a work of creative fiction.
In the meantime know that your reunion committee continues hard at work at making our 35th a special occasion and one worth traveling to. For those of you who may not have marked the date down on your calendar, it begins June 14.
Nancy sends her best, as do I, for a healthy, happy and peaceful new year. We look forward to seeing many of you in June, if not before.
—Jim Bildner, 5 Boardman Ave., Manchester, MA 01944; (617) 737-1100; jbildner@tpi.org