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This correspondent's last "personal" is in the form of an announcement of the birth of a grandson, Glenn Davis Dynner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Dynner '62, of Washington, D. C. ...

Cal Soriero sends along a fine piece of mail, but cannot make the 40th, as he will be in Europe at the time. He adds "On the brighter side, I did get up the nerve to retire, and did so on October 1. We cut all our bridges - sold our home, parceled out all the furniture, etc., among the children, and moved to an old farmhouse here in Round Top (Texas), which we had restored. Now I am having a ball raising cattle and doing all I can to learn the business includextension courses at Texas A. & M. We re no to 30 head and a fine herd sire and it hasn't been easy to find people willing to sell the quality we want in the foundation herd go we not only love raising cattle but we love living with our view to hell and gone and breathing all this fresh air. In brief, I recommend it - the bird of time is on the wing and 10, it hath but a little way to fly!"...

Dan Marx states: "Jeanne and I have spent this term, a sabbatical, doing research at Berkeley The racial revolution is real and like all revolutions ugly. It's likely to produce a counter-revolution which wont win any beauty prizes, either. I'm looking forward to seeing you, Meemee, and all our other classmates and lovely mates at our 40th An old cube," so he signs himself

Al Fisher sends along some breathtaking snapshots of Venezuela. He says: "Bill and Eleanor Coles and Bob and Margot Bottome '30 rolled out the red carpet and made our stay a most delightful one. While the Coles and the Fishers were outnumbered 66 to 4 they had their own reunion, and the accomplishments were about even. We were impressed with the friendly Venezuelans everywhere, as well as their huge oil wells, iron mines, steel mills, ceramic factories, aluminum rolling mills and abundant water power, typified by the huge Guri Dam." ...

Ed Merkel contributes: "retired as "secretary and legal director of Procter and Gamble about a year and a half ago. I am now enjoying the pace and tensions of retired living. We do have a mountain cottage in Vermont, where I see Al Cooley once in a while, and from which I hope to come to Reunion."... Bob Beadel adds: My two youngest daughters are still in college, so my nose is still on the grindstone. During the course of travel in the past twelve months I have had several surprise meetings with classmates who all seemed hale and hearty. These included Bill Henretta, now living in Greensboro, N. C. Our wives discovered that they were classmates at Goucher College. Vera and I had a very fine visit with Dick and Maggie Owsley in Delray this last winter. Another very pleasant surprise was running into Al Fisher and wife at a dinner party in Syracuse, N. Y. I saw Dr. Wilbur Flannery and Ruth several times during the year in New Castle, Pa., my old home town. They continue to be very active in medical and civic affairs." ...

Hal Ripley writes that he lives in the same apartment with Chris Born in Hamden, Conn., and expresses a desire to get together and bend a few old elbows, which naturally shall be done.

George Kennedy writes: "After _ all the talk about having you down to dinner in Stamford, we packed up and took off for Sarasota, Fla. We love it down here —terrific climate - many interesting activities, including Dartmouth Club two or three times per month. On a semi-retirement basis; still act as consultant for textile company I've been with for nearly 30 years. Please extend welcome to '29ers visiting West Coast of Florida." . . .

Howie Nichols tells us: "Hope to get to Reunion, and hope to see you there. Continue in active practice of urology. Recently completed three-year term as councilor of Massachusetts Chapter of American College of Surgeons. Also served as 35th reunion chairman for Harvard Medical School class of 1933 including hosting a clambake on our native heath here in West Newbury, attended by 70 or so husbands and wives, among whom were the Jack Martins." ...

John Dearth sends a card along from Buenos _ Aires, while on sabbatical leave from Slippery Rock College, where he is a member of the History Department. ... Charlie Dudley's Lebanon College is now a two-year business school, please note. ...

A voice from the dark past in the person of Bill Bunn, who states that he has been ten years now at St. Regis, as director of marketing. He spends much of his time teaching Bill Morgan how to sell publication paper. ...

Johnnie Laffey comes through with the following information: "At the annual Dartmouth dinner here in Boston last February there were: Ollie Holmes, Hank Stein, Ben Stacey, Bill Andres, John Dickey, Larry Lougee. We missed the usual company of Johnny Davis, Johnny Quebman, Squeak Redding, Art Rose, Jack R. Hubbard, Blair, Liss, and others - maybe having the affair at the Harvard Club killed some of the oldtime enthusiasm. I think Paul Babcock was there, and I also think that his son spoke."

This from Ed How: "Hope to see you at Reunion. I retired on January 1 this year from General Electric and Jones and Laughlin Steel (there was a recent acquisition by J&L - however, no duplicate pension checks). We are building a home in the Maryland-Chesapeake Bay area that we always enjoyed." ...

Tom Hayes has been named to the Board of Directors of the Naumkeag Trust Company of Salem, Mass. Tom is past president of the Salem Country Club and a director of the Peabody Cooperative Bank. ... MarvBraverman has been reelected president of the Board of Directors of the Washington Hospital Center Research Foundation. ...

This welcome note from Johnny Ball: "This past year I was elected an assistant vice-president of GENESCO INC., Nashville-headquartered apparel manufacturing and wholesale-retail concern in the billion dollar volume bracket. Am on the USAFR retired list in the rank of colonel. Still in reasonably good health." ...

The Hanover grapevine tells us that there is a strong possibility of over two hundred twenty-niners being on hand for the 40th! Au Revoir. ...

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