1941

As of mid-February the official count was 329 dues-payers, Lou Young says. At that point he was sending out the third and final notice to the no-shows, so no more hassling, but "last year we had our 351st check by June 1, and I'm hoping we can get at least that many this year." Lou and Barbara were scheduled for a vacation in Hawaii the end of last month, so he'll be all rested up to count the money.

"After some thirty-two years in book publishing," wrote Ed Fell in November, "I'm retiring in December. Florence and I are moving to Hilton Head, S.C., and looking forward to some great golf games and some relaxed living after all the years of traveling. Son Greg '71 at American Express in their international banking division; daughter Karen, Bowdoin 73, with Aetna."

A couple months back, in this very column, I had Pete Jacobsen in the hospital for bypass surgery. In the nick of time I got him out. For reasons too complicated to explain, the information was precisely one year old - a fact that surfaced too late for me to correct things but just in time to rout out the whole damn paragraph. Now we start all over again:

In November 1977 Pete went through the heart surgery and "repairs were highly successful." By January he was back to his customary commuting from Miami to Exxon oil explorations in Suriname, French Guiana, Paraguay, Hondouras, etc. That presumably brings him close enough for sometime visits with daughter Mardi Lee, married to an Episcopal minister serving in Brazil. Dave '69, a cardiovascular surgeon in California, came back east to serve as Pete's technical advisor for the operation. Ken is a primary-school teacher, currently taking time out for study at Adelphi on Long Island. Garry is a geologist, working, at last report, in Boston. (Ken and Garry are both Dartmouths, too, but I don't know the class.)

Lots of northeastern '41s picked the stormy Yale weekend to go watch the Ind - - oops, the Big Green - play football, and among them were Don and Jane Hanks. "It was worth it," Don claims. "Haven't heard from Les Davis this year, but the price of beef should be good for him. It rubs off some on our cull animals and bull calves." Les was heard from through other channels. Ray and Sue Hall did indeed visit him, as predicted earlier in this space, and he "also saw Dr. Jack Selby over in Lubbock, Tex. - a notable surgeon in that area."

To the best of my knowledge, neither farmer, Don nor Les, was driving tractors in Washington last winter.

Wes Harper also saw the Yale game, but it was the Yale-Princeton game. The outing was sponsored by Wes's company, Revere Corporation, and when he whooped it up at the announcement of the Dartmouth-Brown score, he was instantly revealed as a Dartmouth man. That in turn caused Revere's new president to reveal that he was an old buddy of Lou Young. File that for the Small World Department.

All I can tell you about Jack Bowe is that he said Merry Christmas from Bernardsville, N.J., and I forward that greeting on the better-late- than-never theory, with which I hope Jack agrees.

Get off your butts and write, or you'll feed off nothing but address changes from now till Summer recess.

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