The following are comments received from the class of ’38 recent scholarship awardees.


From Andrew Zulker ’15: “Thank you for making it possible for me to attend Dartmouth College! I am a senior now and I am pretty sure that the ‘granite of New Hampshire’ has made its way well into my ‘muscles and my brains.’ From the first weeks of bonding with my freshmen floormates, to running around the bonfire 115 times on Dartmouth Night, to getting to know professors—it has been a great experience and, as many alums warned me when I was a freshman, it has gone by too fast.


“I’m a linguistics major and I’ve been able to participate in two linguistics research projects with professor Jim Stanford. After graduation I’m hoping to go to graduate school for linguistics, with an end goal of teaching linguistics at the university level.”


From Zainab Bakrin ’18: “There has never been a time in my life when I have felt as happy and fulfilled as I have at Dartmouth. One of the best parts of Dartmouth is the importance of its traditions. I love talking to alumni and finding the similarities in what we love about the school. A major aspect of my experience at Dartmouth has been my membership on the women’s soccer team. I am currently a premed student, interested in majoring in neuroscience with a minor in international studies. This summer I will be staying in Hanover, working on neuroscience research at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. I am looking forward to being involved in world-class research and spending a summer exploring what the Upper Valley has to offer.”


The class of ’38 has played a significant role in the importance of traditions—you are a living example of what the tradition of Dartmouth was, is and always will be—the Dartmouth tradition is what it is and will never change!


On a sadder note it is with profound sadness that I report the passing of four Dartmouth sons: George Payne of Omaha, Nebraska; Robert Blees of Menlo Park, California; Robert Mussey of Urbana, Illinois; and Nathan Straus III of Princeton, New Jersey. Stars in the heavens shine brighter with these new additions and the world is a little darker with their loss; they will forever be remembered by those who loved them and those whose lives were impacted by their very presence.


Stay well and always remember who is thinking of you!


—Jean M. Francis, 2205 Boston Road, O139, Wilbraham, MA 01095