Christmas has come and gone. We have experienced colder than normal temperatures in the Big Apple even for us stalwart alumni trained for cold in our undergraduate days in Hanover. To all we wish a happy, healthy 2014.


The Allisons report the good news that Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens ’79 has had his contract renewed. He is a Dartmouth grad who played for Dartmouth as a superb quarterback. Parents all think him wonderful because of his emphasis on making his football players great people as well as great football players. A favorite Allison story is one Teevens tells in which he relates the instructions he gives to his players at the beginning of the school year. Teevens tells them to go up to the professor of the class each is taking, introduce themselves, sit in the front row (rather than fading into the woodwork in the back of the room) and sit beside someone they don’t know. And then Buddy concludes by saying, “Who knows, someday she might hire you!”


The Allisons have a granddaughter who is a current Dartmouth sophomore. When asked what she thinks of her Dartmouth experience thus far, she replies,” “Dartmouth rocks!”


Here is some more news from my telephone “visits” with some classmates. Jon Mendes reports writing to President Obama and the New York congressmen about his concern about Iran and our need “to prevent Iran from trying to impose their will by providing immediate irreversible destruction of Iran’s capability to produce an atomic bomb and a delivery system.” We all know the potential consequences if this is not accomplished.


We have spoken to Jerry Tallmer, who is recovering from a fall. Had a nice chat with Fred Huntley. He and I hailed from New Haven, Connecticut. John Brooks and we are playing telephone tag so we know he and we must be active. William Richards reports no news. I noted that Cliff Roberts and I share a birthday date, November 24.


Again we regret having to report the loss of two more classmates—Richard Higgins and John Brewer—great contributors to our book Dartmouth at War.


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