Our Woody Klein just keeps on writing books and finding willing publishers. This one, his seventh, is titled The Inside Stories of Modern Political Scandals. Praeger is the publisher and some of the scandals are Bay of Pigs fiasco, Watergate, Monicagate and Enron. All of us have received Dave Batchelder’s November announcement of our 60th reunion to take place on June 13-16. This is, sad to say, our last June reunion. The 65th and 70th reunions are scheduled in September, which should inspire us to live that long and to be in shape to attend. Our 60th will include three class dinners, alumni college lectures, a state-of-the-College report by President Jim Yong Kim and a panel organized by Pete Martin titled “Dartmouth in the World.” Tennis, golf and bird-watching will be offered. Come to the reunion and renew old friendships as well as start new ones. Continuing the buildup to the 60th, my copies of The Dartmouth in 1951 reported that a casualty of our Winter Carnival weekend was the theft of Brooks Dodge’s skiing trophies that he had won that weekend. (I called Brooks while writing this column to learn that in the next week the thief delivered them to the DOC office in Robinson.) Professor Richard Goddard commented on the lack of snow this winter and said the 80-year average is holding up very well. Our freshman year, 1947-48, saw 110 inches, the second largest recorded at the Shattuck Observatory. The following year was only 46 inches. A Dartmouth rugby team was finally organized by Jack Skewes to compete in Bermuda in March against teams representing MIT, Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Players included Pete Bogardus, Ted Eberle, Bill Monahan, Vin Marriott, Johnny Clayton and Bill Leshore. Pi Lambda Phi’s entry in the fraternity play contest, The Girl from Vienna, earned much praise. Donald Gold was the author. Best actor honors once again went to thespian Jeff O’Connell of Psi Upsilon.


Go online for obituaries of Sam Hibben, Dick Ellis, Mike Monroney and Jim Thorpen, www.dartmouth.org/classes/51.


—Peirce McKee, 239 Village Gate, Orinda, CA 94563; peirce.mckee@rbc.com