Chip Deming, your class president, has asked me to be class secretary. I am the widow of Don Hanks, and I want to see ’41 return to the Class Notes of DAM! There are 67 survivors in the class and many interested widows (I hope)! Please make a small effort to contact me at the addresses below to tell the class about your current thoughts, interests or activities.


Dartmouth has been important in my life. Upon graduation, Don returned to his roots, the family farm in the small town of Salem, New York, on the Vermont border. Fast forward to having three sons who graduated from college and asked to join their father on the farm. It had grown to 1,000 acres and was a family corporation named Big Green Farms Inc. It served us well. Don and two sons have left the earth, and son D. Dean Jr. sold the farm this past year to neighbors. 


I received a welcome letter from Dick Hill: “Polly and I are living in a retirement community a few miles west of Boston. She had her 90th birthday last week and a few days before that I suffered my 95th. We are fortunate to have each other and to lick our wounds together. We have three children, eight grandsons and one great-granddaughter. Of the three children, Jody and Dick graduated from Dartmouth. Of the grand-kids, three are Dartmouth grads and the youngest is a freshman at our favorite college. The others chose Bates, Santa Clara, Villanova and Trinity. All are gainfully employed, thank God!”


On a sadder note, I have heard of the death of Don Hagen from his children. Don was an able editor of our Dope from the Duckboards, maybe in the 1960s and 1970s. The young Hagen family used to love visiting our farm, and we, in return took our boys to visit them in Madison, New Jersey, so we could all attend the Dartmouth-Princeton games. A good tradition!


When Vic Schneider and Don Hanks were co-chairing your 55th reunion they signed their information letters to the class, “Dum vivimus viamus!” I translate this as, “While we are living, let us enjoy life!” I can’t think of a more appropriate sign-off!


—Jane Hanks, 2630 King’s Crown, Shell Point Village, Fort Myers, FL 33908; jhanks1@gmail.com