Class Note 1942

Just as we were getting ready to go to press with a low level of news, we get in the mail a newsy note from Bob Gale, who quite coincidentally had heard from Dick Ensor and Ed Chalfant on the same day. Dick reminds Gale of a boat he and a brother built in Belize and sailed it to its delivery. Ed Chalfant reports doing research for a fellow in California who is writing about the 1863 Trent Affair. If you have forgotten it, google it. How did we ever live without Google? Ed’s main subject, Henry Adams, wrote about the diplomatic trouble with the Brits over Trent.


Other Dartmouth news you may have missed: Carol Folt, interim president, has just been named chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill. 


Dartmouth admitted 2,252 students to the class of 2017, including a record number of Native American and Asian American students.


Your class president once again attended the Stephen Mandel dinner in April, when we were privileged to meet and briefly chat with President-elect Philip Hanlon ’77. He again thanked the class for our book, Dartmouth at War.


And today I have the sad task of reporting the deaths of Jack Zimmer, who wrote one of most dramatic memoirs in our book, and Sam Frank and Bert Anger. More about them in our class newsletter.


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