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From guest columnist Malcolm Cross: "These things especially I remember: Listening to the Glee Club on an early summer evening of our senior year as they sang Dartmouth favorites in front of Dartmouth hall. Strong men don't weep. I'm not strong!

"Talking good memories as we carved initials on our senior canes. I still treasure mine—held together with tape —and use it occasionally while walking another campus, this one at our retirement community.

"Spending cold, rainy afternoons in the Reading Room at Baker Library, the ideal place to read and relax but often nodding off in the pervasive quiet of a room with some of the most comfortable chairs ever made.

"Playing hockey under a great coach like Eddie Jeremiah and with people like Danny Sullivan, whose talents had been honed in the Boston Area or in New England prep schools. For a New Jersey guy who learned to shoot a puck from a piece of linoleum on the floor of his home basement, who practiced stick handling and playmaking on the floor of the high school girl's gym and skated on artificial ice only when his parents drove the 1,220-mile round trip to Bear Mountain State Park in New York on winter Saturdays, this was about as close to paradise as you could get!"

Thank you Malcolm Cross, for those memories. Mac has a few more that will appear next issue.

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