1956

Recently I have had the wonderful experience of discussing the beauties of a Dartmouth education with a prospective undergraduate from Burlington ton, N.C. This lad is one of our outstanding high-school seniors whose family represents four generations of North Carolina business and education leadership. His dad and older brother were Moorehead scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and this third son is a finalist for a Moorehead as well. After February visits to Princeton, Harvard, and Hanover he told me that Dartmouth was his first choice. He was impressed with the classes he attended, the fondness for the college of all the students that he met, and the general spirit of caring about the place by everyone. We may lose this fine prospect to a Moorehead at UNC, but it was good to hear favorable impressions from a boy who should know.

Registration for the Fabulous 40th opens at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 10, in front of Alumni Gym in the class tent. Josh Hill, recently retired College editor, will be in charge with a large group of volunteers to help process the 350 arrivals for our record-setting Reunion. The first day is a time to settle in to the dorms (we have the newest and best dorms on campus), tour the campus and town, and catch up with old friends. A reception and dinner at the Bema will be followed by a Glee Club concert in Hopkins. Tuesday will be busy with the annual meeting of the Alumni Association, a memorial service in Rollins, the piicnic at Storrs Pond, and a reception and dinner at the DOC House. On Wednesday the honorable Clem Malin will preside over his last meeting as class president, C. Everett Koop will be featured in a symposium about health care, there will be a picnic at the boathouse, and the day will wind up with a class dinner at Alumni Hall. The class tent will be open continuously as a gathering place for one and all. All this for less than $300 per person including room, if you stay in the dorm.

My description of events cannot begin to indicate the spirit and pleasure of Reunion in Hanover. There is so much going on, so much to do, so many things to see and people to talk to that the time is gone before you know it.

But the memories linger...who will forget the march to the center of campus, led by Russ Brace, to the huge pit to bury the hatchet at the 35th...0r the moving memorial service by Stew Wood and PeteRosazza...the honky-tonk piano by FritzSimms...and the hilarious video put together by Woody Fraser and Hollywood Rosenwald.

More memories are in the making, so be sure and sign up to be a part of it. It isn't too late; just call me, send the deposit, and we'll count you in.

P.O. Box 1031, Burlington, DC 27216-01031; (910) 2267216

'56 out... for our 40th.(But don 't inhale.)June 10-13,1996