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May-June 2026

Class Note 1953. Many thanks to those of you who participated in the second ’53 class Zoom conversation in March. It’s fun to learn how we’re all doing and what’s on our minds these days.

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March-April 2026

Class Note 1953. Although you’re reading this with spring in sight, it was written during a very cold December in Hanover.

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January-February 2026

Class Note 1953. As I write this, our part of New Hampshire is suffering from a “high-alert” drought. We’ve had very little rain all summer and have been asked to conserve water wherever possible.

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November-December 2025

Class Note 1953. The world today is in deep trouble. We’re all concerned about it and particularly our own part of it.

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September-October 2025

As I write this Dartmouth Commencement exercises are taking place on the Green. Fortunately, the cool and rainy weather we’ve been experiencing all spring has lifted and the sun is shining on the class of 2025.

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July-August 2025

Dear classmates, as I write this in April, Hanover is currently suffering through the usual New England turnover of winter as it grudgingly departs the scene for spring.

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May-June 2025

This is my second Class Notes column as your class secretary. I’ll never be able to replace our beloved Mark Smoller, but I hope to follow his lead as I attempt to bring you news of the class of 1953 from Kendal at Hanover.

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March-April 2025

As many of you know, we lost Mark Smoller in October 2024.

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January-February 2025

Editor’s Note: Secretary Mark Smoller wrote this column before his passing November 10, 2024.

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November-December 2024

I was pleased to read that Dartmouth has made a dream come alive by hosting the first meeting of the Tribal Leadership Academy, at which tribal leaders from all around the nation have come to Hanover to attend workshops given by experts in their fiel

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September-October 2024

Thank you, Ron Lazar and Linda Kennedy O’Toole for pinch hitting for me and writing this column for the last issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

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July-August 2024

This month I, Ron Lazar, am temporarily replacing Mark Smoller, our long-time devoted class secretary, whose wife, Bobby, passed away in April.

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