In Days of Splendor, Hours like Dreams, author and 1967 Dartmouth College graduate Charles A. (Chuck) Hobbie offers a detailed, frank, and unpretentious memoir. Hobbie remembers the splendor and the fullness of his undergraduate days in the last decade of Dartmouth’s all-male culture. He recounts the minutiae of his courses; friendships with classmates, his dates, and the faculty; academic, social, musical, and sporting events; the extraordinary beauty of the college’s location; and his evolving affection for the remarkable school where hours passed like dreams.

Since 1961, the Peace Corps has sent Americans abroad on two-year missions. Each American sent abroad pursues three goals: helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women; helping promote a better understanding of Americans among the peoples served; and helping promote a better understanding of other peoples among Americans.

The service of the Peace Corps volunteers from Dartmouth College set forth in this book took place many years ago. This collection of 19 stories details their pursuit of the three goals in the words of the members of the class of 1967, offering a unique view of their training and service during the early years of the agency. Their memories gratefully detail how they lived and worked, laughed and cried, suffered and celebrated, wondered and despaired, and grew immeasurably with the people they met in their countries of service.”