1956

Our class is famous for its mini-reunions, and I hope that you are planning to attend the festivities at the Yale game weekend on October 17 in Hanover. The bonfire, parade, class meeting, football game, and Saturday night dinner at the Inn all make this a memorable weekend every year. Other than the mini-reunion in New York, the next largest class mini has to be the one assembled by Tom and Jane Healy in late July in Vail of the Ledges, a group of eight fifth-year Tuck, Tuck-Thayer, and Thayer students who resided in Norwich at the Ledges apartments in 1956-57 and got together for the first time in 41 years for three days of hiking, riding, feasting, and laughing until their sides hurt! Tom has moved to Vail, where he teaches and raises money for a private school, while Jane continues her career writing and speaking about child development. Ginger and DougKeare showed up from Boston, where Doug continues to work on projects for the Lincoln Institute. Jacqui and Dick Zock made it from Moraga, Calif.; Dick teaches financial management at Cal State in Hayward. Emerson Houck arrived with Jane from Indianapolis in the midst of another post-retirement tour of the USA. The übiquitous T. Rosenwald made his presence known, fortunately with Abby along to keep him presentable. Jack Billhardt now spends his summers in Sun Valley, but he laid down his flyrod long enough to join us in the celebration. Seeing Carol and Don Ford was a real treat. They have built their construction company, FCCI, into one of the biggest in the country, taking on such massive projects as the Loam Prieta Earthquake Slide repair, state highway 1 in Marin County, which earned them the annual California Associated Contractor Award. Don wants to retire but is too busy and involved to get out.

Add to the strong bonds of Dartmouth the shared experience of graduate school in Hanover and living in Norwich together, and you have the makings of a very special reunion—and it was. I urge all of you to make the effort to do the same with your special friends from Dartmouth. I will help you locate them if you can't find them. The clock is ticking for all of us, so don't let another year pass without the effort to contact those special people. The Ledges Legend Lives let's see you reinvigorate your legend now, and be sure and let me know about it when you do.

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