The nominating committee, headed by John North, for new class officers for the period 2012 through 2017, deferred their decision from the traditional time period at the current reunion to reflect the timing of the next reunion. This means the new officers assumed responsibility at the Class Officers Weekend in Hanover on September 29. Their term will run through the next reunion in September 2017. Our new class president is Alden Fiertz, South Woodstock, Vermont. The new class vice president is Henry “Hank” Waters of Quechee, Vermont, and Naples, Florida. Hank will also assume the function of mini-reunion chairman.


Class treasurer is Stephen Parkhurst, Winchester, Massachusetts. Everett Parker, Concord, Massachusetts, and Tucson, Arizona, and James Churchill, Woodstock, Vermont, and Kansas City, Missouri, remain as head agents for the College Fund. They and their team raised $587,000 this past year from 59.5 percent of the class. These are both records and earned the class the Mark R. Alperin ’80 Award for highest participation in a reunion year and the Roger C. Wilde ’21 Award for setting a new 60th reunion dollar record. Frank Logan and Elisabeth Russell remain as chairpersons of planned giving. Finally, reflecting the combined nature of reporting Class Notes and online obituaries in the alumni magazine with news in the class newsletter, these have now been combined into one function. Bill Montgomery will assume that joint reporting responsibility. The class held its annual fall Upper Valley dinner this year with a good turnout over the weekend of the installation of the class officers and the Dartmouth-Penn football game. It was at the Coolidge Hotel in White River Junction, Vermont, and brought back many memories at that venerable institution. Nostalgia reigns. The New York group did not hold its annual luncheon this fall, but the San Francisco lunch will be held as usual in early December. Finally, Vic Trautwein and his wife, Ginny, held their late summer ’52 lunch on a picture-perfect August day in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Attendees included Charlie and Nancy Clough, Ed Fitzgerald, Pete and Jean Stanley, Jack and Dodie Boyle, and Steve and Cecily Parkhurst. Nicely done.


—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52 @aol.com