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Because each of us will be influenced in our decision to attend our June 6-8 "Glorious Golden Gathering" by the knowledge that someone we want especially to see will be there, we urge you to advise Dick Bowlen of your intent to attend. At November 1, he reported 150 coming, 40 undecided, and many more to be heard from. A good indicator of evolving interest was the presence of 25 classmates (only a few short of the number who attended 10 years ago) at the Butterworth parking lot for the Harvard tailgate party.

While few of us are attaining new levels of corporate or professional prominence, there is evidence that classmates are not standing still. Ed Meyers of Santa Rosa, who was involved in worldwide marketing for Christian Brothers Wines, is a volunteer driver for the Cancer Society and director of the Valle Vista Management Association, representing 269 owners of their mobile home subdivision. A widower since 1975, Ed is engaged to Mary Kilpack of Santa Rosa. Last summer Don Hight was married to Harriet Miller, widow and mother of Dartmouth graduates, and she was welcomed into the class at Woodstock. And John Sanders and Elizabeth Meara Battit were married in August.

Jess Lichter of Mexico recently chided Harry Condon with south-of-the-border good humor. "I can't tell you how shocked I was to receive the bill for class dues for $15. Do you realize that that yearly check for $10 was the only stable operation in my whole life? I can still remember when a shoe shine cost one peso (old). Now the price is six pesos (new). Twenty years ago, my barber shop charged 15 pesos (old) for a haircut. It has changed its name from 'Peluqueria' to 'Aestetica Masculina' and gets 160 pesos (new). Movies, in the old days, cost four pesos (old), and, if you weren't too particular about cleanliness or odors in the theater, you could do it for two. Nowadays, it's 35 (new). Enclosed please find check for $15. However, in the future, can't you bill me for $10, just for old times' sake, and I can still send you $15?"

Tom Kedian has moved from Foxboro to Stuart, Fla. Maggie and Al Fisk missed Woodstock, which coincided with the settling process generated by their move from Manhasset to 1029 Virginia Avenue in Suffolk, Va.

Just-returned-from department: Max and Mickey Horwitt from Egypt, Jordan, and China, with guidance from Dartmouth professors. Ed Conklin from Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula, where he had dinner with Mariana and Bob Funkhouser. Page and BobBlanchard from a month's visit to the Canadian Rockies and Alaska. Liz and Pat Weaver and their actress-daughter Sigourney from a tour of the continent as guests of 20th-century Fox. Warns Pat, "Don't try it with your own money, chaps. They've gone ape over there." Grace and Chuck Simmons from a cruise in the Baltic, plus visits to Norway and Yugoslavia.

From Calais (Maine, that is), Walt Dresser reports: "What a summer we have had at Lubec. Great schools of herring, mackerel, and squid have practically smothered the local fishermen and brought in whales, seals, and every type of fish-eating birds. The nicest birds we have seen were Edie and GeorgeFredrickson. Edie says she has done everything now, having attended a cocktail party in a Maine gravel pit."

Still-at-it department: Ken Mac Donald is still president of his Harrisburg insurance agency. Ditto Ed Carroll of Marblehead. Garven Daglish was recently appointed head of the English Department at Cardigan Mountain School, where Jane will teach developmental reading. They are living in New London on the shore of Messer Pond. Both have had outstanding careers in youth education. Harold Kaplan will continue as a professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. "I have just had a textbook, The Rabbit, and a chapter in a three-volume text called The Mouse published by Academic Press." Harold heads up interviewing committees for Dartmouth and Harvard in his region. Well now. And maybe JerryPearre, whose family newspaper, the Pontiac Daily Leader, just celebrated its 100 th anniversary. This news from Bud Fisher of Amelia Island, who is currently recommending no-load cash mutual funds. Bob Geisinger is more active in community affairs, but continues to publish his forecasting letter. "Am historian of the Waco Historical Society. It was the flivver of the air in the twenties, won Thompson Trophy races, and fought battles in South America. It was made in Troy, Ohio, and I helped by put- ting canvas on the wings in the mid-twenties. About 450 are still flying."

Happy holidays.

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