Our class recently adopted a new class logo, centered around the statue of Robert Frost that our class commissioned and donated to Dartmouth nearly 20 years ago in connection with our 35th reunion. To this day it is one of the most popular destinations on campus, enjoyed each year by thousands of visitors. To further confirm the statue’s immortality, I refer you to a portion of a Dr. Seuss poem quoted in the January/February issue of DAM that expounds on the first significant snowfall of each winter: “Snow! There’s snow! There’s lots of snow! Lots and lots of snow to throw! You can throw it on the Green, you can throw it at your dean! If in the Bema you get lost, throw your snow at Robert Frost!” Now how is that for confirmation!


An initiative is currently under way for our class to sponsor a Robert Frost statue art contest during 2015-16 as a 55th reunion class project. The contest will encompass any and all of the four forms of studio arts, last for nearly a year, be open to all undergraduate and graduate students at Dartmouth during any portion of the contest period and provide for significant financial rewards and recognition to the various winners. Vic Rich and Pete Bleyler have taken the initiative to create and implement this project, which is still undergoing revisions as implementation progresses.


As most of you are aware, the Dartmouth intercollegiate sports program has improved significantly during the past few years, especially in the major sport of football. This is the result of several factors: better recruiting, improved coaching, a dynamic athletic director and improved staff, improved athletic facilities during the past decade, the installation of the new program for all athletes in team building and leadership, improved support from the administration, better marketing and recruiting to gain better athletes and the ability to raise more money from more alumni for use in the aforementioned areas. Two of our classmates, Ron Boss and Charley Chapman, have long been active proponents of and active leaders in developing and implementing the above programs relating to football, as members of the Friends of Dartmouth Football advisory board. Obviously, they have been successful.


Mike Gazzaniga, noted as the “father of cognitive neuroscience,” wrote a new book, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience, which has recently been published to favorable reviews (The Wall Street Journal, February 24). In addition, Mike was the keynote speaker at a recent function in San Francisco sponsored by the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Silicon Valley.


In closing, we all will want to congratulate “Red” Facher (Red no more!) on reaching, and by now exceeding, the fifth anniversary of his heart transplant. My former partner, a Dartmouth ’55, has now reached his 16th year from the date of his heart transplant, but who’s counting. Both apparently are doing well. Red, you are an inspiration to all of us!


—Victor S. Rich, 94 Dove Hill Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030; richwind13@gmail.com