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Here comes the last you will hear from your secretary until our class meeting during our 45th reunion beginning on June 11. On this late March morning, this event seems quite far away, but as you're reading this, it'll be just about the last minute to sign up if you haven't already done so! Thinking about those sunny June days and the 250 or so friends who'll be there in our Class alone (not to mention some 400 more from '33 and '34), I'm "driven" to outline for you again the program BobNaramore and his committee have organized for us all. It's coming "dat soon."
Registration begins at Russell Sage Hall on Monday morning June 11. Lunch on your own is followed by a lecture by Professor Wright, "The Changing College." This will be given in the new Collis Student Center, which you'll certainly want to see. A double reason for being there. The first social event will be a cocktail party at our tent, followed by the Alumni Dinner with '33 and '34 at Thompson Arena. Next comes visiting in President Kemeny's garden, then a glee club concert or play, and dancing at the three classes' tent.
On Tuesday following breakfast come a memorial service for classmates who have passed away, an address by President Kemeny, and a panel - "Health Considerations for Retirement." Appropriately enough, next you can enjoy a light lunch (on your own) and then exercise, golf, or tennis and later tea dancing, all at Lake Morey. Out there we'll have steak or lobster and return to Hanover for entertainment and socializing at the tent.
Wednesday morning starts with an early breakfast and the aforementioned Class Meeting. I'd call this a "highlight," but it'll be followed and probably eclipsed by DeroSaunders moderating a three-class panel on "How to Cope With Inflation After 65." Who among us doesn't need, to know the answer! Lunch follows at the Dartmouth Outing Club, and in the afternoon there'll be another outstanding panel sponsored by the Class of '39. By six o'clock, be ready for cocktails and our Class Dinner at Thayer Hall - the climax of our one and only 45th!
After brunch on Thursday morning, off you go to complete a perfect vacation week! You really must not miss all this!
Other news includes a card from JohnWallace. John and Helen now reside in Wellfleet, Mass. They'll go to England for a directors' meeting early in May but will surely be at reunion.
Bob Boehm and Frances have recently become grandparents for the second time. Bob writes he is more involved than ever in legal work for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit civil rights and civil liberties organization. He has also recently become co-chair of the Fund for New Priorities, a nonprofit group dealing with current issues. Bob and Fran expect to be at reunion.
Ed Reich, back in New York after returning from his condo in Boca Raton, will also be in Hanover in June.
Hank and Lou Hawkins are home in Claremont after a skiing vacation in Colorado. They were out on the slopes with no less than five grandchildren. Hank says every one of them is better at skiing than he. What fun!
Got a fine letter from Harry Knott the other day and was reminded of the clambakes he used to put on for '35 back in Bridgewater, Mass., long ago. He and Bev now live in Gahanna, Ohio, where she is a first grade teacher. Harry is partly retired and works part-time as a furniture salesman. Harry's civic activities are impressive. He's a charter member of the Rotary Club, member of the Board of Trustees of the Crippled Children's Society of Central Ohio, chair of parents committee, and coach of high school lacrosse club, chair of a county Aid for the Aging Society, and every Wednesday he reads stories to the kids at the Crippled Children's Center. Harry closes, "The older I get the more I realize that each of us is the image of Dartmouth in his community. See you in Hanover."
See you in Hanover!
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