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Bob and Eleanor Sundblad looking disgustingly suntanned after a week with friends at St. Thomas in late February. Bob's latest assignment is what he likes doing best: The old salt is back on deck with his great love, boats, as a professional engineer and manager with the Concordia Boat Co., located (where else?) in South Dartmouth, Mass. Daughters Linda and Joan working for a newspaper and in a hospital, respectively.

Speaking of sun and boats, how does this from Don Hinkley grab you? "I bought a 75' sailing yacht in Maine and sailed it south to the Caribbean where I have been cruising all winter. Plan to live on board indefinitely. Probably will sail to the Azores and the Mediterranean in the spring and go to Greece for the summer and then back to the Caribbean next winter.

"Since this is my second childhood, I have a motorcycle on board for shore expeditions. Great for exploring the rain forests and the coasts."

Then this from Ray Hensler: "We lost our dog, our youngest graduated from the University of Florida, the air conditioning made a lot of noise, and the crab grass completely over-took the Bermuda grass. So we sold the house and moved seven miles away into a condominium. We went from a community where we were the oldest kids on the street into an apartment where we're the youngest kids in the building. Great for our ego. Weekends we have a 'shack' on Chesapeake Bay for outdoor living."

Our Rochester, N.Y., underground informs that Eastman Kodak has moved Tony Frothingham from vice president and general manager to staff vice president, international photographic division. Tony joined Kodak in 1948 and has spent 20 of those years in international sales assignments. He was named assistant general manager for Europe in 1957, manager of the European area in 1958, assistant general manager of the international division in 1962, and director of marketing for the newly formed international photographic division in 1969. His current home address is in Irondequoit and our smoke signals say that has an even nicer ring to it than Dnepropetrovsk on the Dnieper.

A little late with the reportage, but happy to report that Dick Tarlow was named 1978 "Man of the Year" by the New England Professional Golfers Association. Dick is president of Foot-Joy Inc. in Brockton, Mass., the world's largest seller of golf shoes. He has been active in the educational aspects of golf for several years and has also had the opportunity of playing in the pro-ams at most of the famous wing-dings in the country — the Andy Williams, Glenn Campbell, and Jackie Gleason Opens, the Bob Hope Classic, and many others.

It was good catching up with Bill and NancyWallace in New Jersey. Bill is still with New Jersey Bell and with a brand new title: district staff manager-revenue requirements. "In a word," he says, "I'm involved with rate cases." He and Nancy are also involved in their vacation place at Lake Naomi in the Poconos . . . round trip from home on one tank of gas. Both are big on gardening, Nancy with herbs and Bill with the cow manure in the back yard. The Wallace's three daughters all have master's degrees and points toward Ph.D's.

Union Carbide's Budge Griffin wrote me about a couple of bumper stickers he'd picked up on a trip that took him to Santa Clara, San Francisco, Long Beach, Houston, and Birmingham. "THE WORLD IS FLAT: Class of 1491," and "If the Government Ran Crime, It Wouldn't Pay."

Four of our faithful have been named area chairmen in the current Campaign for Dartmouth. On the scent of that 160 million are: BillMcElnea in Los Angeles, Chuck Richardson in ucson, Bill Craig in Dayton, and Ezz Hale in Rochester.

Paul Jones's son Cameron '75 is now a research engineer at Thayer School.

A sad note: Tom Streeter's wife Barbara died of cancer in February. She was Jock Brown's sister, and Barbara and Jock shared math professor Bancroft Brown as a father.

That's it. Blessings.

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