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September-October 2023

At our Commencement a while ago, President Kemeny gave us our marching orders. If you listened carefully, the sound of a creaking door of wisdom opened and we had a brief look inside the glowing soul of our class.
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May-June 2023

Climates and times, they are a changing. This winter has seen snow in Los Angeles and record high temps in the mid-Atlantic. On the personal side, more of us are retiring or redirecting or revitalizing.
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March-April 2023

Molly Sundberg Van Metre and Julie Koeninger identified an excellent ’81 class legacy project after surveys revealed the majority of our class was interested in ongoing impact with students (vs. a monument, say).
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January-February 2023

By now it must be pretty clear that we were a part of a significant development in the progression of Dartmouth.
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September-October 2022

Giving of oneself is a strong characteristic of great leadership. Sharing what you have with others leaves a mark, an indelible memory and feeling, that strengthens the receiver’s resolve.
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May-June 2022

The world is more obviously challenging these days, in part due to the increasing facility to connect and to be exposed to diverse information.
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March-April 2022

French author and philosopher André Gide wrote, “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Accounts of brave ’81 “second (or third) acts” continue to inspire and delight us.
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January-February 2022

We are blessed. We have come together, we have seen deeply into our interests, and we have toiled long enough to know there is more. Among our blessings includes the time we have now.
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November-December 2021

After our July-August column about ’81 classmates in show business, Peter Smith, an adopted member of the class of ’35 and emeritus director of the Hopkins Center, wrote from the United Kingdom requesting that we thank everyone whose name was in bold