Sept - Oct 2011
Many thanks to Dan and Amelia Musser, who hosted a glorious mini-reunion at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, June 12-15.
Class Notes
Many thanks to Dan and Amelia Musser, who hosted a glorious mini-reunion at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, June 12-15.
As we write these notes, we are at the last of the “dog days of August,” which the ancients thought to cause man hysterics among other maladies.
We are in the dog days of August with exciting pennant races in both leagues. It is hard to imagine that you will be reading this in a cooler October at World Series time.
Recent communications from the College about Winter Carnival had us looking back 60 years to the 1953 Carnival even though you will be reading this in April. The statue was “Skigo”—a take off on Pogo (Walt Kelly had recently visited campus).
Courtesy of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, we are the recipients of a copy of the marvelous book, Town of Hanover 1761-2011.
Class of 1955—an excellent class! We are pleased to report that the College’s ranking of 71 classes placed us among only 12 classes ranked excellent for 2009-10—and only five classes scored higher than ’55.
It is hard to believe that although this column is written at holiday time with all that entails of families and travels and even sugar plums, that you will be reading it in the spring as buds burst, the ice is out, we are in March Madness, spring
As we write these notes just before Christmas we recall the heavy snows in the South and Northeast a year ago that had us snowbound in Connecticut. The forecast this year is milder.
Twenty-five classmates turned out for Homecoming: Dick Barr, Stan Bergman, Dick Blodgett,Betty Brady, Lynn Brock, Tom Byrne, Dave Conlon, Jere Daniell, Jack Doyle, John French, Mike Gorton, Woody Goss, Larry Hagar, Dick H
The end of April is the deadline for these notes—the month T.S. Eliot has called “the cruelest month,” brought harshly into perspective by the events in Boston.
A nice surprise this spring was a delightful letter from John Cavanagh recalling our days as grad students here in North Carolina in the 1960s—he in history at Duke while I did things in the chem lab at the University of North Car
We were relieved and heartened to learn that classmate Taro Shindo and his wife, Setsuko, are safe and suffered no immediate aftereffects from the tsunami and earthquake in their home city of Takarazka, Japan, 350 miles from the