Friday night’s 41-18 win over Yale on October 5 was momentous and I hope a portent of the rest of 2018. Let’s recall in 1953, the fall of our junior year, glued to radio, we listened to a victory in the same Yale Bowl, 32-0. (Dartmouth was 0-5 going into the game.) At zero dark 30 Sunday morning the Dartmouth Coach buses brought the victors to the inn corner, and we students poured out of the dorms and fraternities to greet them with cheers and college songs. Team captain Dave McLaughlin ’54 stood on the front bumper and led cheers for the long-awaited victory. Fast forward to the 1980s; Dave was now president of the College and came to our alumni dinner in Portland, Maine. He fielded the usual questions about the state of the institution. When asked, “Tell us about John Dickey,” he responded, “President Dickey had a serious stroke and was in Dick’s House for a short time. He wanted a stay there, and we wanted him to, but Hanover regulations precluded that. However, a few visits from me allowed this exception. One day in that wonderful fall weather, I pushed his wheelchair to football practice. John’s outfit included his beloved green-and-white scarf. When practice ended the entire team came to the sideline, put their helmets under their left arms, and sang ‘Men of Dartmouth.’ President Dickey cried, I cried, and the whole team cried.”

John Braestrup reports on the recent wedding of his eldest son, Paul, and that son Carl is coming up. John notes that the new $3 billion capital campaign suggests two things: that we are competing with Harvard and Yale and that the Big Green is leaning toward university status.

Tom Roulston’s widow, Lois, writes that she worked for professor John Finch during Tom’s postgrad year, and truly felt she was a Dartmouth ’55 and Smith ’54. Their eldest son, Scott, and daughter Heather are both Big Green.

Sadly, we report the passing of Dean Allard, Paul Andrieni, Chic Gilgore, Ron Campion, Dick Targett, and Larry Veator.

—John Dinan, 20 Gardiner St., Richmond, ME 04357; (207) 252-7442; captdinan@yahoo.com