Ned Jacoby did a stellar job as chairman of our 70th reunion September 24-26. He had a lot of help from Jennifer Casey, acting director of class activities. The College picked up the tab for everything—room and board at the Hanover Inn, even the open bar.


We had 10 classmates present—Josiah and Patty Adams, William and Gloria Bumsted, William and Tipi Halsey, Joseph and Priscilla Huber, Ned and Bee Jacoby, Stuart MacPhail, Robert Marshall, Jack Preiss, Percy Rideout and Walker Weed—widows Charlotte Acer, Joan Bachelder, Lili Graham, Marjorie Hannestad, Eileen Harwood, Marian Weinberg and eight children of Classmates.


There were numerous events, including a talk by President Jim Yong Kim at dinner the first evening, a 31-25 football victory over Sacred Heart on Saturday, class meeting at which we elected Joe Huber president, pared down the officers list and left further reunions to be decided as we go along, singing by the Dartmouth Aires on Saturday evening dinner and a memorial service on Sunday for the 65 classmates who had passed away since our 65th reunion. 


We are down to 82 living 1940 alumni now. I count about 615 in our Green Book who matriculated in 1936. That’s 13.3 percent, the national average these days. All of us are in our 90s. Twelve percent of us survivors came to the 70th.


We have lost few classmates over the past six months, but Henry W. Stokes passed away on September 26, 2010, at his home in Hingham, Massachusetts.


—Walker T. Weed, 30 Three Mile Road, Etna, NH 03750