Articles tagged with '20130701'

Jul - Aug 2013

Our 60th reunion is a ways off, but this is a very good time to think about participation, and I want you to consider two joys in doing so. First, an opportunity to make a new connection with one or more classmates that you never knew.

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.

Sixty years back was a


wonderful day!


A charge from the president signaled our


way.


A group of young men, awash with great


verve


Went out from our school a-fired to serve.


During our undergraduate years friendships are developed that gradually fade away as time goes by but, fortunately, many remain strong—even after some 60-plus years.

Do you remember Edward “Ned” Weir? I do not—but he was a member of our class as evidenced on page 203 of the 1950 Aegis.

With Punchy Thomas gone, John Stearns has stepped into his old shoes and will coordinate the mini-reunion scheduled for Friday, September 27 through Sunday brunch on the 29th.

John “Jake” Turner came to Dartmouth in 1943 and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in December of that year.

Seventy years ago, in July 1943, the original members of our class, fresh from high school, descended on the sleepy New England town of Hanover for the first summer session, a change to three sessions per year, and the addition of the Navy V-12 u

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