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To continue a bit in the story of Russ Steam's appointment to Associate Dean of the College, we dropped a note and Lee wrote back indicating Russ has received everything from congratulations to condolance, but his love of working with young people is paramount. Also the fact that he was selected from an "Associated" school is a distinct honor. He will continue teaching at Thayer but why not? Professor Kemeny still hacks it.

We must comment on a faithful news supplier too seldom mentioned in that guise. Bill Rotch continually sheds light on classmate doings to wit. Jack Kenney, owner-operator of Tamarack Lodge of tennis teaching fame in Franconia, N.H.; who also teaches tennis to deaf children at Crotched Mountain; who also teaches the disadvantaged minority groups in Boston, pulled a Booboo. He paused to make a telephone call while passing through Milford, N.H., and left his wallet in the booth. Since he was heading for points south this left him ill-prepared to continue so he called Bill and Patty who supplied him with refreshments plus what cash they could scrape up and sent him on his way. Happy ending - some honest Greenfield gent mailed it intact to Jack almost immediately. Bill further reports they missed our fall reunion due to a three-week sojourn to Scotland in the Hebrides and the Highlands.

We noted here last June that Dave Kennerson told us in Florida he was heading north in August for an educational symposium and wrote at length glowingly to Bill of his nostalgic trip through New England. Harty and Peg Beardsley stopped by en route to Mt. Holyoke where daughter Anna Kay is now enrolled as a freshman. Last but not least the Aylwards phoned hoping for a combine at fall reunion but as above the Rotches were committed to Scotland.

We had tragic news from Edgar Jones. His elder son Dana died with another young man last August while climbing on Cannon Mountain, This jerked our mind back only a few years to the similar fate in the same place of Chick Koop's son. The Wall Street Journal had a front page story covering the mounting dangers to the increasing numbers of out-door loving Americans, both experienced and unexperienced, exposing themselves to nature and the lack of trained rescue personel to aid them. Edgar is chief editorial writer of The Baltimore Sun. His grief was expressed in a most touching editorial therein in the form of a letter to his daughter attempting to give perspective to such incomprehensible events. It was beautifully done with a message for adults as well in trying to understand the frustrations and goals of young folks today that lead them into situations of testing the world and themselves, looking to life expectations.

A nice letter from retired Joe Tardiff in Hampton, N.H. Wife Olive is now an authoress! With more of us now approaching retirement she and Joe were earlybirds. Their own experience as well as that of friends brought her to write a book entitled How To Live Happily With Your RetiredHusband published by Pilot Books, 347 Fifth Avenue, New York City 10016, available only by mail (paperback) at $2 each postpaid. She turned to writing two years ago and has had articles published in newspapers and magazines like Yankee, New Hampshire Profiles, etc., but this is her first book. She and Joe took their VW camper on a three-week trip down'the Eastern Seaboard to Florida last April. Sometime after their return "King Sturdy" Joe added another 35 miles to the challenge of the Appalchian Trail having previously covered 120 miles from Kt. Katadhin to Monson.

Hal Parachini, after many years with Chestnut Hill Academy but more lately as headmaster of Meadowbrook School in Pennsylvania, decided that was long enough in one location. His search ended at Proctor Academy, so well known to many of us as that pretty little school on the old route 4 which was the main road south to Boston from Hanover. For several years they had an old WW II fighting plane visibly on campus for anyone to climb over. Hal is now business manager there while he and Ruth live in Hartland. Vt. They are elated to be back in the North Country and only 20 minutes from Hanover. The new job fits neatly into all his previous education experience but not with a pleasantly relaxing atmosphere.

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