1939

"With a new class column being added (to this magazine) in the October issue, we need to make space. This means racheting the word limits so that each class on the edge of a lower bracket gets moved down into that bracket. Unfortunately, yours is such a class. Your new limit is 350 words." So wrote our alumni news editor in a recent communication. This removes any doubts about the aging of '39, in the event you harbored same.

Another harbinger of our maturity is the report of another death. Fred Worden died on June 7, which makes the seventh such death we have had to report in the past two issues. Our diminishing list now stands at 276 graduates, 76 non-grads, and three adopted members. Please stay well!

On a cheerier note, we belatedly report that Ev Woodman was given an honorary degree by Colby-Sawyer College, at which institution he served as president some years back.

passed that point of no return. We no longer rate representation on that august council. Too old.

A green card from Moreau Brown, dated June 6, recounts a landing at Southampton, England, of the QE II. And then on to London where, Brownie suggests, "it is interesting to see old landmarks which don't change, although the surroundings do."

Cornie Miller reports that one Kyle Rogers, an outside linebacker from Oregon who had a firsthand look at Hanover, thanks to the largesse of the class of '39, has been admitted to the College and has chosen to join the Dartmouth family with the class of 1999.

Despite the diminution of our verbiage, we welcome every bit of information or news about the '39 community, as does Peter Cardozo. So use those green cards, and, better yet, send us a letter or report.

As you read this, you may have a day or two to sign up for the mini-reunion in Hanover over the weekend of September 30.

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