The winter doldrums have settled in. We were spoiled in Manhattan in 2012 by having had a warm winter, but 2013 has provided every weather phenomena that 2012 missed. We start with a Hurricane Sandy in the fall of 2012. We sail into 2013 with a cold snap, followed by a blizzard named Nemo that spawns a small follow up, the groundhog does not see his shadow and we are still being served “weather.” All this seems to have you keeping to yourselves, which means we have little to report. 


Again, we ask each and every one of you to go to Amazon and write a short review of Dartmouth at War. You do not have to use your name, you can create a nom de plume—the more reviews the book receives the more attractive it becomes to the browsing buyer of World War II stories.


We received a wonderful thank you letter from President-elect Hanlon in response to our giving him an inscribed copy of Dartmouth at War on behalf of the class. He wrote that he was “honored and humbled by our gift” and asked that we extend his “most sincere thanks” to each of you. 


We regret to report the loss of three more of our classmates: Armstrong Stambaugh (and Ricky Stambaugh, his wife, within 11 days of each other), Gardner Bridge and Bert Anger. Longer write-ups will appear in our next newsletter.


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