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January-February 2022

Ladies and gentlemen of 1956, the Year of the Poem has arrived, specifically to remember Joel Ash, who wrote this column for 10 years.

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November-December 2021

Ladies and gentlemen of 1956, as the year closes I want to thank Tony Carleton, Bob MacKay, Bill Behrens, Cliff Phelan, John Miles, Roger Emerson, Egil Stigum, Ben Taylor, Bill Loyer, Eric Jensen, Ted Weymouth, “Booge” Erwin, Brad Leonard, Le

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September-October 2021

Ladies and gentlemen of 1956, as the dust is settling from our 65th reunion, I want to speak of a rising from other dust—the resurrection of the beloved “Animal House,” Alpha Delta Phi, on East Wheelock across from the gym.

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July-August 2021

Ladies and gentlemen of 1956, our long-standing class president Tom “Harpoon” Harper, U.S. Navy captain (retired), died in March. We are diminished. Harpoon’s last words to the class were written March 8: “Hi, Jack.

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May-June 2021

Ladies and gentlemen of 1956: Chief Plenty Coups’ plea to his people was to get an education to be the white man’s equal—100 years after Eleazar sought to provide just that. Linc Spaulding continues with part two of the brand.

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March-April 2021

Ladies and gentlemen of 1956, the late Joel Ash in a recent column referred to the phrase, “lest the old traditions fail.” Jack Billhardt recalls speaking of a classmate, possibly Dr.

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January-February 2021

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 1956, the late Joel Ash and I had a reverence for the Indian and the old traditions.

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November-December 2020

I recently received a surprise package at the post office and opened it to find a book of poetry titled Mindful Musings—a 109-page booklet with a very artistic cover authored by classmate Jerry Finkel.

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September-October 2020

The first two lines of the second verse of the College alma mater are “Dear old Dartmouth set a watch, Lest the old traditions fail.” Sadly, ever since I graduated, old traditions have been failing.

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July-August 2020

I received a very lovely card from Libby and “Boodge” Erwin filled with news about their life in Hudson, Ohio, during the current pandemic and also including news about Dartmouth classmates.

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May-June 2020

Until recently, I have been reporting two to four classmates passing on. Then, in my last report in December 2019, I sadly reported eight deaths. Now once again I have to report on eight deaths.

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March-April 2020

In view of the fact that I have little or no inputs from the class and I will shortly be going in for an operation to remove a tumor in my right thigh, I have decided to fill my column space with the history of my poetic limericks.

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