1977

You may think I'm crazy, but I'm sitting here in the Philadelphia area wishing the torrential downpour we are experiencing were all snow! Some ofyou may be having a white Christmas—if it can snow in Las Vegas, why can't we get a little? Who can forget walking across the Green on a cold winter day, the "crunch of feet on snow," as we sung a million times in "Dartmouth Undying."

I am pleased to announce that two of our classmates are getting married—to each other! I've been waiting for this to become official, as they met each other at the Dartmouth Skiway dinner at our 30th reunion! Nancy Bird and Vin Pellegrini will marry this coming March in Annandale, Virginia, where Nancy currently resides. Nancy is also planning on a career change in 2009: She will leave her analyst position at the CIA to pursue a master of divinity degree at Wesley Seminary in Washington, D.C., with the goal of becoming a Unitarian minister. After spending a family Christmas in the Chicago area Nancy and her two daughters will fly to Vin's Aspen, Colorado, home to spend time with Vin and his three daughters.

After the last column I heard from John Crowell, who is practicing law in Portland, Oregon. He and his physician wife have twin 10-year-old boys. John played freshman baseball with Harry B. Wilson and Larry Cubas and was saddened to hear about Harrys condition and Larry's death. He reminisced that he once asked Harry if black people got tans and he was assured that they did—Harry even showed him his darker neck after a sunny doubleheader! Harry also played football at Dartmouth and tried out for the San Diego Chargers after graduating law school and was one of the last guys cut in the preseason.

Thomas Beebee has written a book, Millenial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002. Beebee compares modern literary treatments of millenarian narratives, end-of-the-world stories charting an ultimate battle between good and evil that destroys previous social structures and rings in a lasting new order. He is a professor of comparative literature and German at Penn State University.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Dartmouth's study abroad program. An Ivy League-leading 64 percent of Dartmouth students go abroad, and I'm sad to say that I never did—big mistake on my part. My first trip abroad was five years ago, to visit my daughter who was working in England for a year. But I know many of you went abroad and formed lasting friendships with classmates on those trips. I'd love to hear from you with your stories of time spent across the pond.

We're trying to make it easier to stay in touch, so my daughter has set me up with a Facebook account! Log on as a friend and send me your news online.

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