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July-August 2024

It is with a heavy heart that I’m writing this last column for my dad, George Shimizu. In late January Dad was enjoying his Warrior’s game on TV and reached for his favorite orange soda—he fell and broke his hip.
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May-June 2024

George Shimizu’s daughter, Carol, writes that her father fell this winter, had a hip replacement, and is recovering in a rehab home. He hopes to be submitting his next column for the July/August issue.
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March - April 2024

While in the Army, I spent four Christmases in uniform. I shared the first two in the last column and share the second two here—though the fourth Christmas was the best of all.
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January-February 2024

A fond merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year to one and all! Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. People care, people share. It is better to give than to receive. And it’s the best time for families to get together.
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November-December 2023

June 24 dawned dark and overcast with a brisk breeze, cold. It was Saturday—my 103rd birthday! I never believed I would make this date. People would later tell me that very few persons reach this age. I am cautiously living on borrowed time.
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September-October 2023

A huge wah-hoo-wah to Sian Beilock. With her inauguration September 22, she will become the 19th president of Dartmouth College, successor to Phil Hanlon ’77. She will be the first female president in our College’s 254-year history.
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July-August 2023

It is still true: Since five-score years ago, America is still the melting pot of the world. Everyone everywhere wanted to come to the United States of America!
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May-June 2023

Two fellows from ’43 are members of the Harold C. Ripley ’29 Society, a very special community of 5,870 alumni who have donated to the Dartmouth College Fund (DCF) since graduation. The two ’43s? They are Edmund G.
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March-April 2023

Happy days are here again! I was asked recently, “What was the happiest day of your life?” Well, read on…. Year 2023 means all surviving classmates are now centenarians. I will attain the age of 103 on June 24.
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January-February 2023

It was December 1945! “Beyond the Blue Horizon” and “Red Sails in the Sunset” were two of my favorite golden oldies. Every sunset was a thing of beauty and joy.
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November-December 2022

Hither and yon, happy days are here again! Our U.S. 8th Army was on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines in the waning years of World War II.
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September-October 2022

It is the year 1946! It is Monday, January 14! It is exactly 7 a.m. I pressed the door bell and a fellow opened the door. I said, “I’m George Shimizu,” and he replied, “Great. Welcome back.