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May-June 2020

It was January 6 as I wrote this, and I was watching the Golf Channel. My phone rang and I saw the name “Doc” Fielding on the screen. He was calling to wish me a happy New Year and I reciprocated.

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March-April 2020

More freshman year nostalgia: Our highly touted frosh football team went undefeated, with Bud Kast and Ray Wolfe leading the pack.

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Jan-Feb 2020

We were sophomores! It was the middle of November 1940—exactly 79 years ago this month. It was just another football weekend in Hanover, and 15,000 fans witnessed one of the most heralded and memorable games in NCAA gridiron history!

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Nov-Dec 2019

I am writing this column during the first week of August. It was exactly 74 years ago that I was on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, serving as a sergeant in the U.S. Army as a Japanese language linguist.

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Sept - Oct 2019

As I write I am feeling nostalgia for my freshman year in 1939, with New England foliage, cooler nights, and brilliant days. Six of us from Middle Mass were having a late-night snack on Main Street.

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Jul - Aug 2019

Who came the farthest in our class as a freshman to Dartmouth? Could it be Nobu Mitsui and George Shimizu, both from Tokyo, Japan? No.

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May - Jun 2019

In mid-September 1939 Nobu Mitsui and I enjoyed the sights and sounds of the World’s Fair in New York City. Two days later we were in Hanover.

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Mar - Apr 2019

A warm, uplifting, and most welcome letter from the son of one of my favorite classmates, Fred “Fritz” Geller, made my day! Jim Geller ’79 mailed it to this fledgling Class Notes writer.

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Jan - Feb 2019

Just two classmates made it to Hanover to set a dubious record for all-time low attendance for a 75th class reunion. I was not one of them! Well, two is better than one, and far better than zero.

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Nov - Dec 2018

A fond hello to my class of 1943 family. I will be taking former class secretary John Jenkins’ role in Class Notes.

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Mar - Apr 2018

Should Dartmouth expand its number of undergraduates?

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Jan - Feb 2018

U.S. News & World Report named Dartmouth seventh nationally in a ranking of “best value schools.” It considered academic quality vs. cost, as well as the percent of students receiving needs-based grants.

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