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Hard to believe, looking out at the snow, that when we'll be reading this issue summer will be creeping up on us. Where does the time go? Let's all pledge to do better at keeping in touch with old friends and classmates.

Marc Jolicoeur sends news that he completed the 2005 Marine Corps Marathon in D.C.,with lots of encouragement from son Pete '75, who ran it the prior year with his wife, Christin. "They convinced me I wasn't too old to do it. They helped guide my pit crew—daughter Jennifer and her husband Jeremy Segal (both '97s), along with my wife Jackie—around the course. We saw each other seven times. It was a beautiful 70-degree day and we all had a great time, especially after I finished. I wore my Dartmouth hat throughout the race and was cheered by several Dartmouth alumni along the race course." Marc also reports having met the night before the race with classmates Mark Arnold and wife Fran Gedney, who had just returned from the most recent of several trips to Australia, and Randy McFarlane and wife Carolyn, who are avid Washington Nationals fans and saw several games in their inaugural year.

Word also comes from Wallace Ford of the success of his first novel The Pride (scooped in this column in the Jan/Feb issue). Harlem's Hue Man Book Store reported that The Pride was its No. 2 fiction bestseller of the month when released in November 2005. Wallace appeared in January on WBLS and at the February meeting of the Dartmouth Club of N.Y.C. to discuss his book. Congratulations again, and here's wishing you many more printings.

Before closing, a bit of class business. Underwhelmed by entreaties from classmates seeking to serve, your executive committee applied very little pressure (more on that below) in getting Tom Peisch to volunteer as our class representative to the Dartmouth Alumni Council. The council serves as the primary liaison between the College and us, and also nominates alumni trustees who comprise half the board of trustees. If Tom does even half the job he did as chairman of our 35 th reunion last summer, he will make us all proud.

As alluded to above, not much arm-twisting was required to get Tom to agree to frequent visits to Hanover, as son Andrew will be a '10 starting this fall. I'm sure Tom and I are not alone in having kids entering college (my daughter Grace will be a Wellesley '10 unless she defers for a year of public service), so let's hear from the rest of you who waffle between exhilaration and trepidation as you sacrifice your offspring to the higher education ritual.

Finally, Scott departed in late January on his annual Thailand adventure—a week in Bangkok followed by four in Koh Samui. He gets the next column, so let's welcome him back with enough material to fill our allotted 500 words.

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