1943
Welcome back from the summer, and we look for a number of you at the informal reunion October 15-17 the Harvard-game weekend. More on this later.
The news over the summer is sparse and quite a bit of it is sad. In the first place we received word that Art Lamoureux and George Forsyth have passed away. As of this writing we do not have the details but will report them in a subsequent column and in the obituary section of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE Second, we sadly report the death of Joan Hier, wife of Fritz Hier of the Dartmouth Development Office and secretary of the Class of '44. Joan was the one at the ALUMNI MAGAZINE who kept all the class secretaries straight — particularly this one! She also did feature articles for the magazine. Joan suffered a cerebral hemorrhage the end of July and never regained consciousness. Fritz's anguish has been compounded by the fact that his youngest son Fred was in a serious automobile accident at about the same time. We stopped by in Hanover in August to see Fritz and passed on condolences from our class at which time we were advised that Fritz expected his son out of the hospital in September. And finally, Kelly Coffin's father, of the Class of' 16, died this past spring.
Howie Thomas read the April column, which reported that he was in Sierra Leone, and took to heart the line, "We presume that when Howie reads this in the magazine he will let us know what his duties are so that we may report on them." Howie writes that the last news of him was while he was in the embassy in Tunis in 1969-71. Following that he was assigned to Viet Nam (the 3rd time he had been there in 20-odd years) and was generally in central Viet Nam, including Hue, the old imperial capital, and finally Da Nang, from which he was evacuated by ship at just about the last minute. The summer of '75 he spent in rural Pennsylvania helping run a refugee camp through which passed more than 15,000 people in about six months. Howie's new assignment in Africa is as A.I.D. operations officer at the embassy in Freetown.
Howie says that he does not get home very often, but when he does he tries to visit Hanover. Outside of Ted Miller, whom he has known since childhood, he seldom sees any other classmates. Howie and his wife Jacqueline have three children— a daughter of 17 who is in her last year of lycee in Paris and might like to go to Dartmouth, and two sons 12 and 13. Any '43s passing through Sierra Leone will receive a most warm welcome.
We have also heard from Tuss and CarolHand, who advised that they and Jack and Lil Meleney will be at the reunion. The Hands' personal news is not too good since the melon crop was worse than it had been in their memory. Furthermore, Carol's son Bill was in an automobile accident July 4, which will slow him down a year since he was headed this fall for Purdue to study agriculture. They write "other than our problems with Bill and the melons, everything else is fine and we always have the welcome mat out for old friends - and even a spare melon or two, I think."
Send news, and remember this is our "advanced" 35th reunion year. Expect to hear from Bob Field, who has accepted the job of 35th reunion giving chairman.
Secretary, 1001 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
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