1928

Roy Milliken has moved back to Wilson, N.C., from Hopetown in the Bahamas and is living with his daughter Anne, her husband John Givens, and their two children. His address is 1109 Laurel Lane. Roy says he is feeling fine.

Dick Walker and Melba are spending December 27 to April in a condominium they own: 515 Sandpiper, Palm Desert, Calif. Dick retired in 1975 as chairman of the board of Byron Reed Company, Inc., which has dealt in real estate in Omaha, Neb., for 121 years. He likes the weather, and though he cannot play golf this year because of two compressed vertebrae, he is enjoying himself.

"You ask what I am doing," Bill Hunt writes. "I am trying to celebrate my 73rd birthday and get my desk cleared after returning from three weeks in Italy and Sweden. After my arbitrary retirement at 70 from Loyola University, I spent a year as a visiting professor at American University, Washington, D.C. I returned to Loyola as a professor emeritus and am now in the second year of a foundation-sponsored study of higher education that took me abroad recently. My health is fine, or I am too busy to find otherwise. Diana is busy with her real estate business, my daughter Margit is in her first year in high school, and I remain ever grateful for the education I got at Dartmouth."

Red and Fonty Sanborn just got back from three weeks in Florida in the "sunny" South. They kept moving nearer and nearer to the Equator hoping to find a warm spot but finally gave up after scraping frost off the windshield at Flamingo in the Everglades. They are being more realistic about this year's weather and are leaving Kennebunkport soon for a week of skiing at St. Anton in Austria. Commenting on our birthday card, Red says, "The only advantage in being 70 is that I can now ski free at Sherm Adams' (Class of '20) Loon Mountain Ski Area. No one seems to be too excited about tapping my vast accumulation of experience and wisdom. However, it isn't hard to find plenty to do if you don't charge for it. My main contribution to humanity is in the field of conservation. I am on the boards of trustees of the Maine Audubon Society (making a name for itself as a pioneer in alternate energy systems and conservation education) and the Maine chapter of the Nature Conservancy (whose purpose is to preserve significant wild areas). We hold 56 areas in the state now and have conservation easements on quite a few more."

Jim and Ruth Newton moved from Salem, Mass., and built a new house on Ham Road, Raymond, N.H. They like the climate there better than Salem and have been reasonably warm in spite of — 10° temperatures and 50 mph winds. Their son Chandler '66 is a minister who chose social service, and he and Sue have eight foster children plus two of their own on their farm just across the road from Jim and Ruth.

Jack Kenerson reports that we had eight '28ers at the January 26 New York meeting of the committee to plan our 50th. Meeting at the Yale Club — and the rest of the afternoon - were president Kenerson, reunion chairman BillMorton, treasurer Craig Haines, Jack Herpel,Chuck Bruder, Bill Marx, Jack Heston, and Herm Schnepel. The committee settled on the 50th reunion letterhead designed by Jack Rose, approved a beautiful Indian head with "Dartmouth 1928" emblazoned on it as made in needlepoint by George Emery to be placed on the reunion sweater, helped complete the committee's organization chart, approved a postreunion at Bonnie Oaks for Sunday and Monday nights, approved a hobby show including wives' hobbies, and approved the up-dating of the class directory. It was a busy afternoon!

Dick Frame's mother, who lives in a nursing home near Dick and Eleanor, enjoyed her 99th birthday on January 3. Dick gave up teaching photography at a trade school in Philadelphia — two nights a week from 6:30 to 10:30 was a bit much, although he enjoyed the young students.

Sam Magavern and Sully Sullivan of Buffalo deserve a Wah Hoo Wah for surviving the country's worst hurricanes, a couple of them, with the season's snowfall at 16 feet and over four feet of the stuff on the level.

Doc Simonds says, "Mildred's arthritis gives her a lot of pain, but I am doing very well, and we both hope to make the 50th."

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