We keep saying that the long, historic, brutal winter has ended and just as we do, nature throws a curve ball by dropping the overnight temps to mid-30s. Compared with minus figures that should seem mild. It is April 28—I think we can safely stop talking about the weather. Too early to discuss politics and the 2016 election.


Joanna and I attended the Stephen F. Mandel ’52 Society dinner held in April and sat next to two proud fathers from the class of ’82 who were rejoicing in the fact that both of their daughters just became members of the class of 2019 and thinking that it was going to cost them huge sums a year for that joy! The last DAM explains why.


Another piece of Dartmouth news of note—the College has accepted 2,120 members of the class of 2019. In 1938 we were a class of 629. Dramatic growth.


Dartmouth has generated three Rhodes scholars this year: one from the class of 2014 and two from the class of 2015. A first.


We continue to get responses from our classmates to our request to reflect on experiences that stood out most about their four years at Dartmouth.


Charles Herberger recalls: “We were a class of a time. We arrived with the winds of a hurricane and we were swept away by the storm of World War II. We cannot forget the time but we also cannot forget the place. Dartmouth is a very special place. A place has no feelings in itself but it imparts feelings—feelings that belong to no other place. Who can forget the Georgian tower of Baker Library and its ringing bells. The immaculate white of Dartmouth Row. The paths across the Green with boards at mud time or in winter the crunch of feet on snow. Memories of Dartmouth’s beauty but also of friendship. I remember washing pots and pans for my meals in the kitchen of the Rhodes Club with Hound Dog Garwich and the chef, Percy, who sang, ‘I’m forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air!’ These little things I remember—the time, the place, the friends—the ever-lost past.”


Expect to hear from another classmate in the next column.


—Leo F. Caproni Jr., 370 East 76 St., Apt. A 406, New York City, New York 10021; (212) 988-6012; (212) 988-6715 (fax); caproni@aol.com