Spring is in the air! Temperatures in the 60s after a long, cold slog of a winter. We have traded snowshoes for umbrellas.


We received a nice call from Dick Remsen in Florida alerting us to his gift to the Dartmouth College Fund. He is doing well, decided to stay in Florida after he lost his wife. Wanted us to say hello to Huntly Allison, with whom he attended prep school.


Just heard from Bob Gale, who has published another book, Characters and Plots in James Welch’s Novels. Bob reports chatting with Dick Ensor here in New York and Ed Chalfant in California. 


We heard from Chuck Herberger in February but it missed the deadline. Herberger news is two pending publications. One is a sonnet in the form that Shakespeare (Oxford) made famous. See our newsletter for the actual sonnet. The other publication will be in the New England Antiquities Research Society Journal. It will be a republication of an article on the labyrinth symbol that was first published in 1991 in the Griffith Observer of the Griffith Astronomical Observatory of the city of Los Angeles. More about that in our newsletter.


Joanna and I attended the annual Stephen Mandel ’52 dinner at the Plaza earlier this month. Classes receive awards for their success. Let’s get an award for ’42 next year! Class of ’54 has won two years in a row. If those octogenarians did it, we nonagenarians can do it too!


Two thousand twenty students were offered acceptance for 2018. Dartmouth expects an enrollment of 1,110. That is almost double our size of 629 in 1938.


We end this column with our usual request. Please give us your news. My calls to you are to get news. The column is only as good as your reports to us.


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