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November-December 2025
Class Note 1978. It’s mailbag time—a chance to serve up some of the tasty odds and ends that showed up in my email or caught my eye on social media.
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September-October 2025
This column marks the halfway point in my six years as class cosecretary, and I want to thank you for your generosity at sharing your news and stories. It’s a pleasure to hear from you and a privilege to learn more about you.
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July-August 2025
First, some literary news: Alfred Nicol writes that Wiseblood Books has published After the Carnival, his fourth full-length collection of poetry.
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May-June 2025
Greetings from Paris, where I am battling jet lag after a somewhat wrenching trip to the United States to visit friends and family who are struggling.
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March-April 2025
Spring term 1975: This time 50 years ago we were all recovered (I hope) from our first Winter Carnival and were busy filling out our first Dartmouth Plans, eyeing those off-campus programs and figuring out how to work them in around our soon-to-be-de
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January-February 2025
One of the rewards of a career in business journalism is learning the details of how people make their living.
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November-December 2024
It has been a busy year for the generous and accomplished class of ’78 (alternative motto: “Retirement? What’s that?”). By the time you read this, Election Day will be in the rearview mirror.
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September-October 2024
Close your eyes. It is September 1974. The class of ’78 arrives for what is now called new student orientation but which was then called Freshman Week. What do you see?
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July-August 2024
“See if you can guess what subtle theme is being evoked here,” said Karen Clark, the very funny wife of Brooks Clark, as she threw open the doors of their newly finished dining room in Knoxville, Tennessee: white woodwork and dark gr
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May-June 2024
Greetings from Bordeaux! I’m writing this over coffee and croissant on the first morning of my retirement “victory lap.” Bob and I are on an eight-day mini-odyssey that will take us to San Sebastián, Bilbao, and Barcelona.
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March - April 2024
First, some news: John Brenner has an “intriguing” second act as senior vice president at CVS Health, overseeing enterprise litigation. “Just as I was beginning to get the hang of retirement,” he wrote. Congrats, John!
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January-February 2024
Bonne Année, en bonne santé surtout. For those of you who did your language requirement in something other than French, that means, “Happy New Year, and in good health above all.”