By the time you read these notes, Dartmouth will have had graduation on what we hope continues as a relatively quiet campus, unlike the turmoil evidenced at other institutions nationwide. The difference at Dartmouth has been noted in a national media headline found on the Internet, “As colleges fumble…Dartmouth gets it right” (Forward, April), an obvious reference to the successful public forums instituted by President Beilock and faculty from the Jewish studies and the Middle Eastern studies departments.

“Books” is thethemeof the July/August DAM. I am mindful of our classmate authors, be they academic, fiction, personal events, or world history, some of which are given below. First to mind is Lyn Brock’s In This Hospitable Land, a true story of the escape of his wife’s family in 1940-44 from the Holocaust to be sheltered by protestant Huguenots in southern France. An inspiring tale of universal brotherhood—especially meaningful these days. Skip Pessl’s Barren Grounds is a page-turning personal story of a fateful canoe trip through the Inuit lands of Nunavut, Canada. Norman Fine relates how the technological development and implementation of microwave radar turned the tide of WWII in his Blind Bombing.

Jere Daniell had the masterful Colonial New Hampshire: A History. Newell Stultz in his academic career authored four books. Joe Mathewson’sThe Supreme Court and the Press has done quite well. His most recent, Ethical Journalism, is worth a look. Charlie Warner’s Media Selling is now in its fifth edition.

Marty Aronson gave us a trial lawyer look in a who-done-it-type fiction, Full Court Press. Meanwhile, Bill Lenderking produced a true murder mystery based on a real murder at an American embassy in his The Soul Murderer. Termed in reviews as “Lenderking gets it right,” it has thrills and chills and accurate portrayals of offices in Washington, D.C., overseas, and the courtroom. Bill also contributed an interesting account as a foreign service officer in Korea and Vietnam.

Sadly, we report the passing of Alan Anderson, Gerald Berstein, Pete Buhler, Tom Calloway, Theodore Chadbourne, Ian Duncan, Paul Forester, Philip Reilly, and Charles Warner.

—Ken Lundstrom, 1912 Marsh Road, IL Apt. 132, Wilmington, DE 19810; (919) 641-5219; ken lundstrom@yahoo.com