Class Note 1943

Count your blessings! Our class had 659 members, including transfers. Sixty-eight years later (scary) 166 of us remain (plus an few who have lost contact with the College). Of the 487 who have died, 23 lost their lives in WW II.


As noted in the last Alumni Magazine, U.S. News & World Report ranks Tuck seventh in the country, and adds that Tuck students have the highest percentage of jobs at graduation and its alums receive the fourth highest starting salaries and bonuses. 


An article in the April 17 New York Times education supplement says the increases in college costs have nothing to do with inflation or an increased need for money. Instead, the increases relate totally to public perception. Apparently higher costs indicate a superior education. (Dartmouth now costs $55,365—second only to Columbia in the Ivy League.)


Dartmouth has again sent help to Haiti—two surgeons, one critical care doctor, two anesthesiologists and one operating room nurse—this time with an emphasis on reconstructive surgery.


Our class has received a heartfelt thank-you letter from Katherine Hicks ’11 for our financial support during her years at Dartmouth. She spent a year in Denmark, but her concentration has been in Mexico, where she’s taught and studied the political culture, partly on a Dickey Center grant to observe municipal elections last summer. To quote her, “Over the last four years Dartmouth has challenged me to grow, to identify my interests and ambitions.”


I’m sorry to report the deaths of Tyler Harold Bunce and Joseph Paul Harvey Jr. Our condolences to their families.


—John Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.kendal.org