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Dartmouth '3940th Reunion

As the heading of this column appropriately suggests, our 40th reunion is just around the corner. Wells Bates and his band of organizers have a top notch program arranged for June 11-14. Guys and gals are coming from near and far. There is a gang of promise packed into those three and a half June days in Hanover. It's not too late to sign up and join the fun. This is to remind you that the price has been reduced to just $90 per head, most meals included, beds excluded. For this last, the College has arranged a most reasonable fee. But you have to make your intention known by May 15 or the price goes up slightly. We recommend you make your move at your earliest possible convenience.

From USAF Captain Ned Cummings '68 we received a clipping about his dad, Ed Cummings, indicating that he has been selected "craftsman of the month" in the Boston area. Ed, who lives in Natick, Mass., is not only big in crafts, but is big on the outdoor life, being an active member of the Audubon Society, a snowshoer, skiier, canoeist, hiker, fisherman, and a friend of the moose and beaver who live near his cabin in the Maine woods. When not conversing with the animals and the birds, Ed is chief estimater at the Congraf Company in Needham, Mass. His wife Martha is an accomplished painter, an outdoor enthusiast, and a homemaker. Oh yes, - young Ed is an assistant professor of English at the Air Force Academy.

A bit belatedly, we should report that five '39ers were present last December at the Alumni Council meetings. They included DustyRohde, Ralph (Zeke) Hill, John Steele, BertMacMannis, and your correspondent. There were some gay old times held upstairs in the Inn along with the labors on behalf of the College.

"At These Prices, Who Needs College?" an article featured in the January 29 ChristianScience Monitor, was written by WaylandAvery. It was featured as a citizen's view, and our man came around to suggesting that the benefits of a college education are indeed worth the cost, even at today's rates.

The peripatetic physician, Charlie Neer, has struck again, this time in Montreal, where he addressed the Quebec Orthopaedic Society on "shoulder problems." Between Neer and BobCushman, we can't pick up a journal or mag without finding that, like Kilroy, they have been there, either solving joint problems or the kind of abrasive problem that is hatched in Worcester, Mass.

By the time you read this, Danny and YvonneDyer's daughter Diana will have become the wife of Andrew Watson. She is an assistant vice president in the national banking division of Morgan Guaranty, NYC.

Skip and Penney Morse have joined the retired set as of this past September. Skip spent most of his working years with Union Camp when he wasn't performing duties as a mayor. They now reside at Tryon, N.C. (Box 1141, zip 28782). We are down to the bottom of the thin news-bag, which prompts us to turn inward for the moment and suggest that Math and I, as of this writing, are on the very eve of a two-and-a- half weeker to Florida. First to the West Coast, where we'll try our hand in a senior tennis tournament in St. Petersburg, and thence to the East Coast to lick my wounds. We're trying the auto/train south, and we'll be meandering through Cashiers, N.C., to see Henry and DotConkle on a lolligagging trip back home to the snow country.

This department has been remiss in keeping you up with address changes, for which we apologize. Frankly there is some confusion in the system. Of late the college has been sending us address changes with such seasonal continuity that we suspect the affluence of the '39ers allows for two to three homes apiece. This is hard to confirm, much less report in a timely fashion. We thought we had a dandy picture story on Shag Hatch for instance, with whom we corresponded. He was teaching music in the Cresbad, S.D., school system, and we had some shots of him conducting the band. Presto! Along came a card suggesting that Shag had apparently moved to Drawer D., Lodge Grass, Mont., a place where, if memory serves, he was some few years back. We'll be writing him to clear up this little mystery, but perhaps you get the drift of our confusion. Anyway, take this for gospel: Rod Albright has moved out of NYC and can be found at White Head Island, Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada, EDG 3kO; Bill Atwater went from White Plains, N.Y., to Rte #25, Brookfield Center, Conn., 06805; and Bill Bachman has fled Bloomfield Hills, Mich., for North Palm Beach, Fla., Apt. 3102-A, 11188 Turtle Beach Rd., 33408. Next month we promise to get our computers sorted and pass out the changes in residence.

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