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The first mailings are out on our big 30th this summer, so read them carefully, mark your calendars for June 12, 13, and 14, and start making your travel plans. Bob Muenzberg and his committee are coming up with a terrific program, so it should be one of our best. More details will be coming along, but reserve those dates right now.

I just received a clipping from the Daily News of Newburyport, Mass., announcing that our Jim Zafris has formally announced his can- didacy for a position as an at-large city coun- cilor. He is one of ten people running for five slots. Jim is president of the Colonial National Bank of Danvers, Mass.

A nice note from Doug Mott should help bring you up to date on his activities, in case any of you have lost track of him. He moved to the Boston area in 1971 from Chicago, as district manager of Brockway Glass Company. He lives out in Acton, where he enjoys the trees, stone walls, and winding roads. His wife Molly died in 1974, and he has a grown daughter and son liv- ing at home. He says the mountains, the shore, the Cape, and the Islands are great, and he really doesn’t miss the Midwest anymore. Besides that, he’s close to Hanover, so he is able to see a few football games. Some of you probably have run into him there.

Nick Nickerson writes that they have just moved to a new home in Wilmington, Del., from Newark, Del., which I gather is close by. He is teaching American literature and journalism at The University of Delaware, and occasionally plays tennis between committee meetings and other duties of academic life. He likes the teaching and, sometimes, the research, but dis- likes all the administrative stuff. They have a daughter, 16, and a son, 11.

I finally received a note from Dale Jacobson, who says he is now living in his fourth house in 'Chappaqua, N.Y. He claims this is his final ,'move. For 26 years he’s worked for Exxon in 5 New York City, involved with the financing of health, group life, and permanent disability benefits as well as other areas of benefit plans financing. He is very active tennis-wise, the racquet kind and the paddle kind.

Dick Mallary has a new job. He’s ad- ministrative secretary to Vermont’s governor, Richard Snelling. He held the same post under the former governor, Dean Davis, in 1971, and of course was one of Vermont’s best represen- tatives in Congress.

Our hard-working Punchy Thomas received the Class’s Gold Pick Axe Award in Hanover several weeks ago. You probably will be hearing more about this, but this seems like a reward that is richly deserved. Punch has done an ex- cellent job in organizing our Class and keeping it moving in the right direction.

I just received some sad news from Irene Nicholson, informing me that Ed died unex- pectedly on June 30.

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