1943

These notes are being prepared on my 57th birthday, a milestone which you recently marked or will do so shortly. For myself, I feel a good deal younger and have more (well, at least as much) get-up-and-go as at age 47, and look forward with confidence and eagerness to saying the same thing when I'm 67. As 1979 gets going, may I express the hope that these are your sen- timents as well.

As to getting up and going, the Class of 1943 is surely doing so. Some interesting address changes have reached us, and by far the most intriguing is that of John Harvey. John moved from St. Johnsbury, Vt„ to the American Institute of Iranian Studies in Teheran! Whether this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE will reach him there is, at this moment, somewhat problematical.

Three more new Sun Belt converts: BurroughsBarstow from Paoli, Pa., to St. Petersburg; JackBehringer from Weston, Mass., to Fort Lauderdale; and Bob Ott from Milwaukee to Naples, Fla. But the Class still has differing views on most things, so to prove it, Bob Hardy has moved from Atlanta to Stowe.

And while we're in the Snow Belt, AlfredNewton picked up stakes from White Bear Lake, Minn., and has relocated in Iron Mountain, Minn. So you thought Al was the only '43 in White Bear Lake? Well, think again, because Jim Oppenheimer lives there.

Don Taylor is back in familiar surroundings in Grantham, N.J., having left Providence. Ralph Dushame was relocated from Westerville, Ohio, to Newark, N.Y. - and is no doubt hoping that all his mail will not now go to New Jersey. John Altorfer has left Peoria for a better view of Lake Michigan on the lakefront in Chicago.

Connie Young, president of United of Omaha, life insurance affiliate of Mutual of Omaha, has been elected to the board of directors of Deltona Corporation, a Florida-based land development company. Connie has been president of United of Omaha for the past five years.

Pete Heggie writes to say he "had a good visit with Ed and George Ann Bock in Syracuse this fall. "Still don't see that much change in Ed from his days as editor of The Dartmouth " Pete, does that mean he still goes to the movies every day on a pass?

Treasurer Church Leonard and wife Dorothy "are enjoying being grandparents for the fourth time. Youngest son Jim and his wife had their first child on Thanksgiving Day in Greenfield, Mass."

Church says that President Paul Young has reserved a few rooms at the Hanover Inn and at the Chieftan Motel for next fall's class minireunion on the weekend of September 21. If you're interested, it's suggested you write to the Inn or the Chieftan now.

In a recent issue, we wrote about the "Underwater Wonderland" photography of Mort, Alese and Todd Pechter. Their Long Island show was reviewed in the New York Times which said, within the extensive and enthusiastic article, "These photographs of underwater life in the Caribbean are more than novelties. At times they are innovations. They reflect a technique, a specialized expertise and an esthetic authority that give us a new understanding of underwater photography." Not bad, Mort, not bad.

The Class mourns the loss of Bob Higgons, who died December 8. He leaves his wife Helen and five children. An obituary will be found in this or the next ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

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