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By the time you read this our 45th reunion will be a delightful memory for about 250 classmates and wives. A new slate of class officers will have been chosen to lead us onward and upward to reunion number 50 in 1985! The reunion year Alumni Fund will be nearing its climax under the leadership of Al Dodd and EdOffutt and, with your help now, setting new records.

Early in May, our Class was well represented at the Class Officers Weekend in Hanover. The sessions were more than usually interesting and informative in the light of recent controversies and the affirmative admissions policy decision of the Board of Trustees.

Our class received honorable mention in the race for the Class of the Year Award, and Harry Ferries was chosen Class President of the Year. Al Brush was elected president of the Class Bequest and Estate Planning Association, and your secretary was chosen president of the Class Secretaries Association. Treasurer HallColton, newsletter editors Reg Bankart and Dero Saunders, and reunion chair BobNaramore were all on hand. George Colton came from a Skidmore trustees meeting in time to dine with the rest of us.

John and Barbara Gilbert have returned from a two-months trip around the world, traveling by air. They spent a month in Sri Lanka, where Barbara, the daughter of a Y.M.C.A. representative, was born and lived as a young child.

Good news for those of us near Hanover is that Don and Margaret Radasch have bought a home in New London and will be moving there on July 2.

Hall Colton's consulting trip to Puerto Rico resulted in a visit to our only resident classmate there. Morris and Carmen Sherman live in Mayaguez and made Hall most welcome. Morris is in the real estate business selling property mostly in Florida, if I have it straight! The Shermans planned to attend reunion, and I trust it worked out.

Sorry to learn that Harry Ackerman has been troubled with ruptured discs in his back. When traction and bed rest did not solve the problem, he was operated on. He was doing fine at last report. Reunion, though, seemed out of the question.

According to a note from Boyd Rogers in St. Louis, he and Ruth recently had" their 39th wedding anniversary. That event, Boyd's 65th birthday, and his retirement on April 1, were celebrated in the presence of his Dartmouth roommate Charlie Evans and his wife Marhea from Alabama and Harry and Jukie Deckert.

Barney Tomlinson, retired in Bradford, Vt., keeps busy with his woodworking shop and goes fishing at every opportunity.

I'm indebted to Peter Smith for an article clipped from the Quechee Times entitled, "Ad Exec Lane 'Retires' to Work," a great story on the Tom Lane we knew as editor of The Dartmouth, v.p. of J. Walter Thompson, later consultant to the N.Y. Chamber of Commerce, and now in Vermont writing and consulting on community relations and marketing strategy. One quote from Tom on adjustments to life in Vermont: "A four-wheeler to get us up and down hill, the warmest ski gloves money can buy, and red woolen pajamas we gave each other for Christmas!"

Fine letters from Ed and Alice Neff tell of the accomplishments of their daughter Alice Louise, who graduated from law school in Cleveland and is an attorney for the Gannett newspaper chain of some 77 papers. She has passed the Ohio bar exam, and now, since the Gannett headquarters are in Rochester, she's about to tackle the New York exam. This is certainly a challenging time for specialists in newspaper law.

No more news from your class secretary, except for a 45th reunion report, until October. Don't forget, though, that our regular fall reunion will take place on the weekend of October 5-6. Class officers may come and go but GeorgeColton as master of reservations goes on forever!

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