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Pat and I took a week's vacation back in October and went up to the Hanover area to visit friends, touch base with various people at the College, and explore further the possibility of a retirement home in that neck of the woods. On Wednesday of that week, we drove up to Waterbury Center, Vt., and had lunch with BarbaraWatts, widow of Roger Brown, and her husband Peter. They have a lovely home that they built themselves, and Barbara is a great cook who puts a delightful emphasis on natural foods. They hope to come down for our 35th reunion next June and we urged them to send their $10 reunion deposit to P.O. Box 1945, Westboro, Mass. 01581. From there, we drove over the fields and through the wood to New Hampshire and the potential retirement home of Vic andVesta Smith for a rollicking dinner and evening with them and her mother, as well as with two other classmates and wives - Cliff and BettyJordan and George and Betsy Barr. Vesta cooked a delicious Chinese dinner and the evening was filled with fun and festivities, including a peek at the Renfrew Poindexter III award to be presented to the classmate who traveled the farthest to attend our class executive committee meeting and mini-reunion at the end of that week. Nobody could remember who had come from where by the end of the week, but other classmates at the reunion were Trudie Butler, widow of Bill Butler; Don and Rickie Cole; Samand Gertie Cutler; Frank Edmands; Moe Frye;Irving Graves, stalwart class of '45 standardbearer at the parade preceeding the rally and bonfire the Friday night before the Cornell game; Harry and Ginny Hampton; Steve andJean Hull; Frank and Jeanne Hutchins (she is running for another term as a councilor on the Brighton, N.Y., town board); John and RuthLeggat, whose son Todd is a freshman this year; Tom and Amy Maver, whose son Tom Jr. is a senior this year; Joe and Shirley Michael; Stanand Mary Newton; John and Marylee Osborn, whose son David is also a senior this year; Edand Spider Pirie; Moose and Joan Rowan; Dickand Margot Spaulding; Griff and Gina Strasenburgh;Austin and Shirley Wason; John andMolly White; and Ted and Barb White and their two girls. Other '45s seen at the football rally and game were Paul and Janet Glover, Bob andJeanne Sluyter (who hope to come to our 35th reunion June 9-11, 1980), and Joe and DorieYoung (attending Alumni Council meetings). I was very pleased that Trudie Butler is taking an active part in class affairs and 1 hope that this will encourage other '45 widows to come to the class family reunions that we hold so dear. I might add that we had the largest attendance (25) at our class executive committee meeting that we have ever had, and I hope that will increase in the future.

Lisle C. Carter Jr., president of the University of the District of Columbia (see class notes in the October 1977 issue of the MAGAZINE) and a former assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, has been nominated to sit on the board of directors of Heublein Inc., a fastfood franchiser and marketer of branded foods, liquor and wine, and New England rum. Lisle was born in New York City but spent most of his youth in Barbados. After serving in the Armed Forces, he received a law degree from St. John's University in 1950. He established a private law practice in New York and took on the additional job of legal council for the National Urban League. In 1961, Lisle was named deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where he helped develop regulations and procedures aimed at ending discrimination in federally-assisted programs. He was subsequently made assistant director of the U.S. Office of Economic Oppor- tunity and in 1966 was appointed assistant secretary of HEW by President Johnson. More recently, he was appointed by President Carter to serve on the President's Commission on Pension Policy. Before assuming his present post, Lisle was chancellor of the Atlanta University Center, an affiliation of six institutions of higher learning. Prior to that, he had been a professor of public policy and director of the public policy and administration program in the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration at Cornell University.

DON'T forget that our 35th reunion is coming up June 9-11, 1980. Don't forget to send your $10 deposit, payable to "Dartmouth' 1945," to P.O. Box 1945, Westboro, Mass. 01581, so that Steve Hull, our reunion head, will know that you are planning to come! Don't worry, if plans change, the deposit is fully refundable.

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