1929

Dud Orr comes through with the letter-of-the month: "Thanks to classmate Frank Kenison, I have been a member of a committee established by the last session of the New Hampshire legislature to examine the problems of reparation for medical injury. The-cost of medical malpractice insurance is already a considerable burden on the cost of health care and the situation promises to get worse before it gets better. As it looks to me now, the doctors are suffering from the tendency of courts and legislatures all over the country to liberalize the amount that can be recovered for personal injury. The doctors are not alone. Automobile insurance liability in some states now represents 25% to 30% of the total cost of owning and operating a car. Product liability insurance is hard to buy at any price.

"Last June my mother celebrated her 100 th birthday. This prompted me to ask a life insurance actuary how many of our Class of about 700 that entered Dartmouth in 1925 now have a parent still living at age 100 or over. His response was that there ought to be about six. I wonder if the Class lives up to the statistical average."

This column will be glad to report on any more of such phenomenal survivors.

Duke and Horty Barto enjoyed their September trip to Austria and West Germany. When the rain of the first few days cleared away, they found that snow had covered the peaks of the Alps. During their expeditions by cable car to the summits they had snow under-fool for six days, and September 13 they drove through an early snowstorm on a mountain road.

Charlie Dudley recently entertained members of his SCORE group (Service Corps of Retired Executives), including Dick and Katie Black and Ed and Polly Chinlund. He writes, "Dick and Ed are active in SCORE and really make the chairmanship a much easier job. Their expertise in plant management and finances is outstanding."

Charlie included a clipping from the NewYork Times reporting the marriage of BillSykes's grandson, Frederick Sykes, to Mary Stern of Delaware.

In late September I joined 45 other alumni for the Outing Club weekend at the Moosilauke Ravine camp. On the first day we climbed to the summit in the rain, and on the next, when the clouds cleared, we paddled a few miles on the upper Connecticut.

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