I hope you all had a joyful summer reconnecting with family and friends. Summer term in Hanover is in full swing as I write this note. The campus is buzzing once again as you see students out and about enjoying sports of all kinds, the Ledyard Canoe Club, the swim dock, and all types of gatherings on the Green. My classmate, Louise Erdrich ’76, recently was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Night Watchman. It is a story of her grandfather, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. I highly recommend it for your fall reading. The class of 1945 lost our beloved past president and classmate Harry Hampton on April 20. His first wife, Ginny, predeceased Harry, but he was blessed to find another great love when he married Margaret Hotchkiss in 1988. Together they became Elderhostel junkies. He claimed his best roles were “Old Fud and Gadfly in the Saga of Frolicsome Fearless Fightin’ D’45.” He also served as mail-call editor, treasurer, and reunion chair. He was instrumental in establishing in 1959 on the Hanover Inn’s corner the Class of 1945 Memorial Weather Post, which is still there today. Harry enlisted in the Army in 1942, served in the infantry, and returned to finish his studies in the fall of 1946. He told numerous friends that failure to restart as a freshman upon his return to Dartmouth was the dumbest thing he ever did. He claimed, however, that he “enjoyed comfort, contentment, love, and happiness—far beyond my due and enough to get me arrested. I tried to give most of it back, and I hope that I succeeded.” With respect to the class of 1945, he did that and more. We could never thank him enough. As class president Matt Marshall said, “Harry was not just the glue for our class, he was the epoxy.” Our heartfelt condolences go to Peg and the rest of his family. Send me your news please and take care.

—Martha J. Beattie, 6 North Balch St., Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 667-7611; mbeattie76@gmail.com