On behalf of the 1952 class officers, let us be among the first to wish you and your family all the best in good health for 2019. This is a memorable year for your alma mater, founded 250 years ago in December 1769, but the College will be celebrating all year. Our class has been a proud and an active part of Dartmouth for more than a quarter of this history (actually 28 percent) and for those of you whose fathers and/or grandfathers are Dartmouth alumni, your life history is as much as 35-percent of the College’s background. We hope you will follow all the events of the year and especially the reenactment of the famous Dartmouth College case on the weekend of March 1 and 2. In the meantime, we are happily staying in touch. Recent messages come from Dr. Ray Alexanian (Houston), Howie Van Valzah (Roscoe, Illinois), Hank Waters (Naples, Florida), Jon Walton (St. Clair Shores, Michigan), Winchell Craig (Bethell, Washington), Jim Churchill (Mission, Kansas), Alan Smith (Indialantic, Florida), Doug Corderman (Hamilton, Virginia), Dr. Bennett Stein (Bernardsville, New Jersey), Alden Fiertz (Brattleboro, Vermont), and Marcel Durot (Oak Park, Illinois). The messages, reported in detail in our class newsletter, range with family news (all generations), travel, health, reunions, military service, some professional activity, and, most of all, connection to and interest in Dartmouth and our class. Note the geographic distribution here. (“Thou ’round the girdled earth they roam, her spell on them remains.”) It is very rewarding that we stay in touch. By the time you read this, the football season will be long gone, but the excitement this fall was impressive and the record even better. Beating Harvard in terrible weather in Hanover over Homecoming Weekend was a memorable experience, for sure. (See also Dartmouth at Princeton in the hurricane on November 25, 1950. Were you there?) By the way, we had no class event this Homecoming Weekend. You didn’t miss anything. We regret to report the loss of another classmate, Roy C. Megargel, who passed away on September 22, 2018, in Essex, Maryland. Stay in touch.

—William Montgomery, 11 Berrill Farms Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-0261; wmontgod52@aol.com