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First we should like to point out the alumni fund's excellent new wrinkle - Challenge 60 - wherein some generous alumni set up a kitty of 250 grand from which matching gifts are given to all increases over last year. Also for anyone giving this year but not last. This has stirred much interest. A deduction is made, however, for anyone decreasing, thus it's averaged out. If you have already given your usual please consider giving again, our class gets credit for the additional twice.

Charley Pingree, Trust Officer for Old Colony Division of First National Bank of Boston gets around. Last year we reported his trip to England on bank business. Last week he left for a meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil which is Al Bryant territory. We had a complaint from Al that nobody ever came his way albeit BobCrawford appeared there suddenly several months back where they met unannounced at a luncheon.

Thanks to the telethon we recently spoke with a few surprised classmates. Fred Mayo had only news he was home alone as Esther was visiting in Arizona. He thought Challenge 60 a good idea and we note he forwarded an extra contribution. Ernie April had nothing new but told us Butch Nichols retired last year as school principal in Winsted, Conn., and was keeping busy now as assistant secretary to Connecticut Secondary School Principal's Association. SterlAtwater, long silent, is New England manager for Handy & Harmon, vendors of precious metals and if you have tried buying anything in gold lately you'll know why he described his business as being in a whirl. Charley Fowler, seven kids and two still in high school, continues at Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.) in civilian research in their library which is the largest in the Department of Defense containing more in Russian and Japanese engineering than any other library in the country.

Al Mayer reports his plumbing supply and contracting business has been on the skids for two years and he would be grateful to have someone buy the business. He's physically now in good shape since the plane crash but he and Rita did not make their usual flying trip to Naples and the Bahamas this year. WesWallenius had a rough bout with emphysema but has made a marvelous comeback. Sounded great on the phone. He teaches speech therapy in various schools including Brookline, Mass.

A stranger answered Paul Wentworth's phone in Camden, Me., saying he had rented the house while Paul was in the Bahamas on one of his boats, due back in June to rent his other one. Paul deals in rental properties mainly. IkeCollins, newsless for years, we had to press to find out that he has been director of industrial relations for Farrell Division of United Shoe Machine for 20 years in Fairfield, Conn. Now we know! Roy Curtis, another newsless correspondent, told us he has been with Travelers Insurance for 37 years and is Group Superintendent of their Field Division.

Dr. Art Tucker was in the Bahamas on a charter trip but his "house sitter" said he was quite involved with other medical associates in their Dedham (Mass.) clinic. He also spends all available time around the water with his 37-foot sail/motor boat named "Puffin," berthed in Kittery, Maine.

Bob Barry writes this is the first election in 16 years he has not been on the ballot. His score - 12 tries, eight victories, four defeats. He still maintains his Washington, D.C., home but lives at the Thunderbird Country Club in Palm Springs, Calif., where John Llewelyn '38 has recently become a neighbor and with whom Bob lived in the A.D. House. For 25 years Bob has operated a land development business in his spare time in the Sierras and is finally hoping to extract copper, gold, and silver ores now that they have become more worth recovering.

Have a good summer, get your checK in to the Challenge 60 fund, and we'll see you in the fall, bright eyed and bushy-tailed.

Secretary, 10 Colby Rd. Wellesley, Mass. 02181

Class Agent, 419 Princeton Ave. Metedeconk, N.J. 08723