Summer is here—we have traded umbrellas for shorts.


In our recent column we made mention that Chuck Herberger was the youngest member of our class when he entered Dartmouth and even today due to his birthday being on Leap Year. It prompted a call from Tom Harriman, who thought he was the youngest. Of those of us still around, a search of our available data shows the Rev. William Bishop as the youngest, born May 10, 1922. Tom then told an interesting story about how he and his three brothers all went to Dartmouth. He promised to write that story for our newsletter.


Bob Gale keeps in touch on a regular basis. And this month has published yet another book, titled Characters and Plots in James Welch’s Novels. 


Our class honored the three ROTC military officers commissioned this year at a luncheon hosted by Huntly and Ginia Allison. We presented each man with an autographed copy of our book, titled Dartmouth at War. The full story will appear in our class newsletter.


We received a wonderful letter from our class scholar after completing his first year, an amazing man whose accomplishments will appear in our newsletter. 


Other Dartmouth news: George Packer, of the The New Yorker, writes that Phil Klay ’05, in his book Redeployment, presents the “best literary work thus far” from our two recent engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq. Packer writes Klay is a writer who happened to be a Marine and went to Dartmouth. Klay served during the violent months of the surge in 2007 in Anbar Province.


When you get a call from me wishing you a happy birthday, I am also calling to get news of you and your family. I need this news to help in writing this column.


As I conclude this column I regret to inform you of the loss of the following classmates: Theodore Dunn and George Rushton, both contributors to our book, Dartmouth at War; Richard Cardozo, M.D.; Edward Rasmussen; Robert Temple; and Arthur Henderson. The class extends its condolences.


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