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The recent Ivy League football media day held in New Haven included the preseason media poll that overwhelmingly entrusted Yale with the top spot and settled Dartmouth in last place. However, we can take solace in that only once in the last seven years has the preordained champion come out on top—Penn in 2003. Coach Teevens hopes the critical injuries of the past two years don't cripple this season's record and plans to use the last-place prediction as a team incentive.

The nature of Hanover as a town has changed, as many communities have, since our graduation. Back then, barely emerging as a sleepy little town in the summer, home to professor and Mary Hitchcock doctors, Hanover was the classic college town. Now things hum year round. The College is busier and the growth of the medical center and the Army's cold regions lab and all the attendant businesses and their employees have transformed the town. Adjacent communities, the "bedroom" towns, have grown. With this growth has come a great increase in the number of alums who have settled hereabouts. The Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley is the largest such group of our College or very close to it. The voices raised over the alumni representation issue have spawned a number of letters to the editor: "Enough, already. It's a college alumni issue. The rest of us don't need to hear about it so much." We may hear less of it in our paper but the issue is not going away soon.

A recent and tangible bit of evidence as to what happens to our class support for the athletic sponsor fund: a note received by class treasurer George Hartmann from Maddie Steiner of Dallas, who is a member of the incoming class of 2011. Maddie was in Hanover last fall and her three days here convinced her that the green is her first choice. An aspiring swimmer, we hope to hear more of Maddie during the next four years.

June 2009 may seem a long way off but it's not too early to plan to attend our 60th reunion. Plan to make it one more time.

Our class losses now include Bill Melohn of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Bill Rosetter in Corona del Mar, California.

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