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With the advent of fall — with memories of the hot humid summer — and visions of a clear, cold winter my wife Pat and I have been thinking more and more of solar energy for a potential home in our retirement years. We expect to remain in New England, and ideally we would like to be able to design and build a home with major emphasis on passive solar design and possibly some active solar panels to save on whatever conventional fuels we would use for heating. We have collected quite a library of solar information and would be interested in hearing from any classmates, or members of other classes, who might have similar hot ideas!

In the meantime, I have been enjoying the constantly-changing face of downtown Boston during the work week. On my way to my office at the First National Bank of Boston, I walk along that part of Washington and Summer- Winter Streets that is being converted into a pedestrian mall, with the use of very attractive bricks from the Spaulding Brick Company. I called President Dick Spaulding, who said that he was very pleased his company had been awarded the contract by the City of Boston. It all started when he obtained the job of supplying bricks for the new City Hall Plaza. He also has a new venture called "The Brickyard," with a retail showroom featuring paving bricks, ceramic tile, pottery, and other similar items for the individual consumer. They are located at 128 Middlesex Avenue in Somerville, off McGrath Highway and near the Somerville Court House. Dick would be happy to see any classmates or others who might wish to stop in between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

I received a nice note from Ed Harte, a newspaper publisher in Corpus Christi, Tex. He resigned last month from chairing the board of the National Audubon Society, a post he had held since 1974. He has been a director of National Audubon since 1964. While he chaired its board, the Audubon Society brought in as president Russell Peterson, former governor of Delaware and a former chair of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. Ed's wife Janet, who comes from Hanover, had been visiting her mother there and says local intelligence has it that Animal House is for real, located somewhere on fraternity row. Let's hope that all fraternities clean up their act and become an asset to the College, rather than a liability. Those of us who will be returning to the Hanover Plain for our class executive committee meeting and mini-reunion (plus the Cornell game) on the weekend of October 26-28 will be able to assess the situation in person. I hope that as many assessors as possible can make it.

Eliot Mover is enjoying a second career as a manufacturer's representative for juvenile and teen furniture and accessories. It gives him a chance to do some traveling while calling on customers, yet doesn't keep him away from home too long. His wife Helen is enjoying a new career also, working in the advertising department of the Wellesley Townsman and serving as ad representative for companies too small to have an advertising department of their own. They are both enjoying the pleasures of condominium living in Wellesley.

Faithful fellow old goat Harry the Hampton advises that daughter Marcy was off in mid- September for a year at Camp Redcloud near Seoul, Korea, and that daughter Pam just announced her engagement to Scott Bundy and wedding plans for April or May 1980. That means that the Hamptons will be able to attend our 35th reunion on June 9-11. What about you? Have you sent your ten-dollar deposit to reunion chair Steve Hull, Box 1945, Westboro, Mass., 01581? Have you urged a fellow classmate to do the same? Let's hear from you; and pass along a little news of yourself at the same time. The nice thing about our reunions is that most of us have gotten to know each other over the years and we welcome reacquaintances — unlike the entering freshmen, who look forward to study, work, and play at Dartmouth and wonder who their fellow students, workers, and Playmates will be.

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