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November-December 2023

As you read these words another Hanover fall will be about to come to an end and we will be watching for the first snowfall. Today I am eagerly awaiting the beauty of this campus as the leaves turn and the air becomes crisp.
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September-October 2023

I hope the class of 1945’s centennial birthday festivities bring together family and friends. The campus has had its share of festive occasions as it does every spring. Another inspiring and always bittersweet Commencement has come and gone.
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July-August 2023

I received a warm note from Earle “Bud” Street, who responded to my call for sharing the centenary of your birth celebrations. Bud hit 100 on March 23 and I am sure he was celebrated well at his home in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
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May-June 2023

This month I attended a heartwarming celebration for Bob Gaudet ’81, the recently retired men’s hockey coach at Dartmouth. A multitude of thanks and inspiring words of praise from a host of speakers filled the festive evening.
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March-April 2023

On March 8, 1945, during your senior spring, the very first International Women’s Day was observed. When I discovered this, I could not help but reflect on how this connects to the election of Dartmouth’s first female president, Sian Beilock.
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January-February 2023

I am writing as the class of 2026 is building the bonfire on the Green for tonight’s start to Homecoming Weekend. There is a deep frost on the lawn as the glorious fall ends. The autumn colors were as dramatic as they have been in many years.
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September-October 2022

As classmates approach their 100th birthday, I hope the profile of wellness master Chelsey Luger ’10 in July/August DAM offered some interesting thoughts. I imagine that we could share a few suggestions of our own!
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July-August 2022

Green Key weekend will once again bring festivities to the Dartmouth campus in May. And this June class reunions will return to campus. The joy of seeing friends in Hanover, especially after the isolation of Covid, will be good for the soul.
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May-June 2022

Eighty years ago it was spring of freshman year. The world was changing in ways that would have a profound impact on the ’45 Dartmouth experience.
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March-April 2022

The shoulder season in Hanover is about to begin. These days the walk across the Green becomes a treacherous dodge of mud puddles and the snow piles turn to dirty gray.
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January-February 2022

Greetings from Hanover, where the leaves are long gone and skiers wait for fluffy, deep snow to fall. This winter will feel more like the Dartmouth winters of past years, with hockey and basketball and the daily buses to the Skiway.
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November-December 2021

Dear ’45s, I am writing to you from Hanover as the summer heat has just broken and the first scent of fall is in the air. As you read this, the glorious colors of fall are done, the leaves have fallen, and the first snow is coming soon.
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