Selecting First Entry In Results By Name

Hello,

I have a table of names/dates as such:

Class 1     1/1/2007
Class 1     1/3/2007
Class 1     1/5/2007
Class 2     2/1/2007
Class 2     2/3/2007
Class 3     3/1/2007

What I want to do is select only the nearest entry from the list for each distinct class, so the results are like this:

Class 1     1/1/2007
Class 2     2/1/2007
Class 3    3/1/2007

So basically, I want the first upcoming class in the list for each distinct class name.  How do I do this?  I'm using SQL 2005 Express.

Thanks.