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My wife Pat and I decided to spend the long weekend of February 14-16 in Hanover, which also coincided with Winter Carnival. We wanted to visit old friends there and also see what Carnival was like, now that Dartmouth is coed. Would the gals invite dates from home, or would they attend the activities with fellow students? How would the events of today compare with the nostalgia of yesterday?

Saturday morning we stopped at Art Bennett's ski shop and saw Don and Rosalie Cutter. Don is recuperating from surgery following a collapsed lung and we hope will be fully recovered in the near future. From there we went to the magnificant new Rupert C. Thompson Arena and saw the Dartmouth-Cornell hockey game. We were very pleased to see Jack Gile there. He is still confined to a wheelchair ever since he suffered a severe stroke, but is alert and cheerful and very much interested in Dartmouth's hockey program. After lunch we went out to the golf course to watch the ski jumping as well as touring the campus to. see the ice statues that reflected the Bicentennial theme - including the Statue of Liberty (wearing a big D) in the center of the green.

Sunday we drove up to Waterbury Center, Vt., to have lunch with Roger Brown's widow Barbara who is now Mrs. Peter Watts. They have a lovely home which they heat with electricity and a wood stove (the latter more recently!) Monday morning we paid" our respects to the Alumni Office back in Hanover and were luncheon guests of Cliff Jordan, a very nice way to end the visit and to celebrate our 24th anniversary! We left with a thaw melting the ice statues and the impression that Winter Carnivals will continue to be an integral part of the College. .

More news has come in from the Middle East. Tony Nicolais has been associated with the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia as superintendent of well workovers. He has now been appointed general manager of the Amerada Hess Corporation of Abu Dhabi and will be located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Incidentally, how many classmates know where Abu Dhabi is in relationship to Dhahran? The first one to tell me will get a modest prize for demonstrating a knowledge of that part of the world that too many of us do not know or understand.

Word came also from John Foster who is director of Foster and Associates, geologists and geophysicists in Beirut, Lebanon. He said that his company survived the civil wars in that country but found it prudent to move its operating center to London, at least until stability and reconstruction again makes Beirut such a delightful place to live. He enjoyed a few hours reunion with Herb Boedtker last summer over drinks at the Phoenicia Hotel, the scene of later destruction during the fighting. His wife Sylvia and he will be living in Langton Green, Kent, lovely countryside from which New England got its name. Alumni friends are urged to make contact on their London visits. Tel: (01) 637-3691.

Finally I would like to pay tribute to a different kind of classmate. On February 28 we went to the funeral service of Roger W. Brown '05 at the First Parish Church in Concord, Mass. We had met Roger and his wife Jane at the early sessions of Dartmouth Alumni College, and gradually got to know the extent of his involvement with his Alma Mater. This was confirmed at the service when the minister said that Roger had three great loves in his life - in the following order: Dartmouth, his church and his family - and the service was mute testimony to the love he had for his family and his church! It was a moving experience to celebrate the life of a person who epitomized the best of what the Dartmouth experience represents. We shall miss our Alumni College classmate.

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