Class Note 1967. We asked, “Of all your memories, which ones still make you smile?” Tad Campion recalls that “with irreverent wisecracks in a Barnstable/Cape [Massachusetts] accent, the late Steve “Jonesy” Jones really spread around the laughs.” Warren Cook has “many smile memories, but Billy Smoyer always will be No. 1!” Ed Arnold says “going to the bunkhouse construction in 2016 was a smile moment!” Jack Harris remembers “frigid Hanover nights skating on a very frozen Occom Pond but especially later skating indoors on a Brussels rink with my future wife, Frances.” In September 1963, Ed Mallet made his first trip east of Texas and “saw the College for the first time—still makes me smile.” Bill Lamb met his future wife, Jen, on a blind date arranged by his mother; “Thirty‑four years later, that blind date is still the memory that makes me smile every single day.” Jim Gifford says that after a life full of epic adventures, “my late wife, Becky, would be at the center of my fondest memories.” Steve Ayres remembers the day in 1965 when a beautiful young woman named Betty came to his dorm for his roommate, Dave Lawrence—suffice it to say Steve and Betty were “married shortly after our graduations from Smith and Dartmouth.” Sam Ostrow “smiles every time I think of how my very careful son used me to prepare for the proposal of a lifetime.” Steve Landa smiles remembering “one of my daughters (age 4) leaping into my arms after being away for a week.” Al Hine remembers his little boy saying, when asked by the captain where he was headed, “To grandma and grandpa’s house,” and the captain enthusiastically replying, “That’s amazing, that’s our first stop!” Bill Yaggy’s band debuted at a pub so packed with friends that “when people ordered drinks or food from the bar, they had to pass it overhead from person to person to get it from the bar to the tables. It was a gas and still makes me smile.” You can click on 1967.dartmouth.org and read all these great stories in full.
—Larry Langford, P.O. Box 71, Buckland, MA 01339; 1967damnotes@gmail.com