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What a month this January has been. Your humble scribe passed a memorable milestone; and his roommate Miki really surprised him with a major bash high above the waters of Lake Michigan in beautiful downtown Chicago.

Miki had called many of you and I was flattered at how many of you responded. Exroomie Buck Linman from Atlanta and BillMurphy from Detroit. John Rosenwald was in rare form in the telegram he sent; and from Jersey City, a bogus issue of The Bergen Lafayette And Greenville Ward Newsletter, edited by Julian Robinson, dwelt on my becoming a quintogenarian. Had so much fun, it almost took the pain out of getting old.

But at times like these, you realize how important are those long unbroken relationships.

Enough of my age. Julie Robinson never learns. He's tossed his hat back in the political ring. He's running for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey. He hasn't sent out any cries for help as yet, and I'm not sure he'd get any after what he implied about me in that newsletter.

January brought some other news, too. JoeBaute, president of Markem Corp., has been elected a member of the New England Energy Policy Council, a citizens' organization working to develop and implement a coherent energy policy for New England. Good luck, Joe. And if you find one, would you please share it with the rest of us before the Saudis get too entrenched?

I suppose Bob Callander has had plenty of dealings with Arabs. He has just been named deputy of Chemical Banks International. Bob is a senior vice president, a title he ascended to in 1972. Since February 1973, he's been responsible for the bank's business in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa; and since 1977, Latin America also. So we know he's had some dealings in Arabia Deserta.

From an earlier clipping which I .obviously mislaid we learn that the Rev. David Duncombe is chaplain of Yale Medical School and supervisor of clinical pastoral education at Yale New Haven Medical Center. After Dartmouth, Dr. Duncombe went to Union Theological Seminary and then earned his B.D. degree at Yale Divinity School and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is a minister of the United Church of Christ and author of The Shape ofthe Christian Life.

And also in academia, Dr. Herbert R.Pickett was, last year, named treasurer of the University of Virginia. Herb was previously the registrar. He joined the University in 1965 as associate comptroller and lecturer at the University's Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

And I guess I still know how to get a rise out of Dort Bigg. All I did was mention his name in a previous article and I got a letter. Dort has been off adventuring again. In November he went to the Yukon on a hunting expedition with his trusty muzzle-loading cannon and bagged a ram, a moose, and a grizzly. Now, fearful that some monster might escape his retribution, Dort is bound this spring on a safari to Botswana. He also included an article from the Manchester, N.H., paper about his family trips to Bermuda. Seems they dive for mementos to the same sunken ship referred to in the movie the Deep. That's Dort, his wife Nancy, and two boys, Patrick, 14 and Danny, nine. All divers.

I'm sorry to have to bring you news of a death in the Class. Edward Cunningham "Ted"Reed died in his hometown, Dallas, last June. The College only received word of it in December and so I pass it on to you.

Let us hope that next month I can end on a happier note. By then the winter storms should be past and we should all be a bit more cheery.

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