Happy 2012. By the time this reaches you it will be well into the new year.


Dartmouth at War is out! Tell your children; it’s important history! It’s a bestseller. Many of you have already received an advance copy. We hope it met your expectations. From the early reactions it exceeded your expectations. In addition to each of the authors and the generous donators, six key people deserve our thanks: the editors and proofreaders Barbara Bullock, Warren Carlson, Ed Chalfant, Chuck Herberger, Bob Gale and Jerry Tallmer. We have book events on the calendar or in the planning stage at various key Dartmouth clubs. The first event is February 5 in San Francisco (combining Silicon Valley and San Franciso); Bill Clark will preside. This event will honor all Dartmouth veterans and will feature Dartmouth at War. Other events in the planning stages are in Boston, where Ginia Allison will preside; Chicago, where Dick Higgins will preside; and we are working on New York. Each of you should get in touch with the key people to be included in the event.


If you have not purchased your copy, hurry up before we run out of the first print run.


Seventieth reunion reminder: Mark your calendars September 14-16. It will be here sooner than you think. We are planning all kinds of fun and interesting programs.


Once again I have the sad duty to report the deaths of some of our classmates since last writing as follows: Malcolm Garfink, October 24, 2011; Jim Ingersoll, November 14, 2011; Ralph Tyson, M.D., November 16, 2011.


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