1962

Honest to goodness, the snow is leaving in early March. Maybe there's hope for dry ground in June for the reunion. According to John Knight that may be the only thing that's going to be dry.

Our very own president, Bill Pierce, is making big progress in the banking world. Latest out of Fun City is that the Chemical Bank has moved Bill to senior vice president, if you're hoping that these dividends from Gulf Oil, Standard Oil and a few others are going to send your sons and daughters to Dartmouth, tune in with the old lefty as Bill is responsible for the bank's activities in the petroleum and mining industries.

Gaining tenure as a learned professor is FolkeKihlstedt, who heads up the art department at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster. Pa. After leaving Hanover, the academic doctor picked up his master's from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from Northwestern.

Any of you who get suspicious of the gang hanging around Ed Falkenberg at our 15th, it's not because everyone, wants to pay his dues. It's because Ed has promised to provide some samples from his big boss, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. Ed is now controller of that spirited (ouch) company and tells me the real promotion is when he gets to be taster.

Competing with Ed in the spirit business is Tom Parsons who is now the pastor of the Litchfield, N.H. Community Church (Presbyterian). Tom has a fine background with six years served with the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship in northern New England, ministering to students at Dartmouth, UNH, Keene and Plymouth State, and other schools. A nice place for a nice man.

Just a personal observation or two. In June, it will be 15 years since John Sloan Dickey sent us off into the world. Unfortunately, the years fly by with greater and greater ease, and we do not reflect on what these four years at Hanover meant as much as we would like. It's just a two-hour ride from my home, and the family and I make the trip on occasion. But it's never the same. It's true the Commons is still alive, the bells still ring at Baker, and the beer still flows at Beta, but it's not the same. You know why? Because you're not there. We may be 15 years older, but damn, we're still interesting and alive and willing. It won't be the same without you. See you in June.

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