DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE 13-15 MAY 2025

Gathering in Hanover, New Hampshire for three days in May, some twenty-two retired CANE members shared fond memories of their many times together at the CANE Summer Institute held on the Dartmouth campus for thirty-one consecutive years through 2011. They came from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Fortunately, the weather was glorious. Among the former Institute teachers present, now emeriti, were Edward Bradley (Dartmouth), Doug Marshall (St. Paul’s School and Dartmouth) and Allen Ward (University of Connecticut). Doug has recently completed a new translation of the Iliad. On the closing night at dinner, longtime Maine CANE member and former CANE President Alison Harvey presented Edward Bradley with a stack of letters from the reunion attendees thanking him for being one of the founding members of the Institute and for his constant guidance and support through all its summers at Dartmouth. Edward, now eighty-nine, orchestrated two events for the reunion group. On Wednesday morning an excellent tour of the antiquities collection at the Hood Museum revealed how truly blessed Dartmouth is to have this extraordinary facility on campus. Later that day during another guided tour, everyone was able to leaf through a wide selection of rare books, some dating back centuries, at the Rauner Library just off the green. Both Tuesday and Wednesday evenings the conversation was lively and nostalgic during dinner at Murphy’s on the Green, a long-time favorite of the Dartmouth/Hanover community. And many in the group took the opportunity to have breakfast two more times at Lou’s, a culinary icon on Hanover’s main drag.

Memories of wonderful classes, lectures and seminars came rushing back to all of those who attended the reunion. And everyone recalled that the special highlight of the Institute unfolded at the beloved Dartmouth Boat House on the Connecticut River with a closing banquet. Those who made the journey to northern New Hampshire felt that the reunion was a jewel in their CANE crown, as it were, and most did not want to depart. As someone expressed it—“I shed a few tears leaving Hanover….”

Submitted by Charlie Bradshaw

Accompanying photo taken by Murphy’s on the Green server for the group, and forwarded as a  courtesy by CANE member Liz Baer