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Notes from the telethon last June:

Gordon Torrey runs a business in Bar Harbor, Me., called Portland Ocean Services, a feeder line of smaller boats that pick up containers from the busy ocean port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, for delivery to various ports in Maine. Ed Sterns retired last March from Travelers Insurance Company in Hartford, which leaves him on retirement pay with one remaining son to support through two more years of college. He does some consulting work to help supplement.

Rugbug continues as Santa in Santa Land but only four days a week through the summer months, winding up the operation by Thanksgiving. Marge is involved with Greenfield's senior center as executive secretary of the council on aging programs. Son Terry '66 left Santa Land last year to become sales manager for a printing company in Turners Falls. Our messy notes tell us Jim Emerson had something to do with the Pioneer Valley Dartmouth Club annual meeting!

The Bill Rotches and the Will Browns teamed up to drive to New Lebanon, Pa., last July to attend the wedding of Meg and Bob Aylward's daughter Anne. Al Romanow's two sons now run his corregated cardboard box business in Boston, giving him much needed relief. He calls himself their coach! Up in Franconia PhilRobertson just built one of the largest solarheated houses in the area, complete with a greenhouse, for a retired doctor. He also works on a northern New Hampshire committee for self-sufficiency in energy and food.

Jim Otis is a rockhound (not music) and takes a trip west every summer to areas where rock formations intrigue folks like him. He went all the way to Seattle this summer, but with gas prices he will have to curtail from now on. He says retirement is okay but he will have to line up some income to support his hobby.

Taffy and Carl Noyes joined with fifteen other people, two guides, and a cook, for alpine hiking and skiing in British Columbia, 250 miles north of Lake Louise. They skied a different mountain each day, many like Tuckerman's Ravine. Carl is president and chief executive officer of the bank holding company. He says Fran Evans is retired and wife Florence is having sinus problems. He talks to Bandy Dwinnell often and relates that his neighbor Tin Taft won a trip to Paradise Island, Fla., through his office machine business. His final news is that Shel Wagner's wife, Janet, is in the real estate business in Hastings-on-Hudson.

Dick Moore lives in Peterborough, N.H., on the 200-year-old Moore family farm. He was a construction engineer, but a number of years ago he went into secondary school education as a math teacher and then became guidance director in the Milford school system. He said his roommate Don Bauer recently had a long European vacation.

In July Mona and Don Otis called to invite us and Lee and Russ Stearns to join them for lunch on a Saturday and to stay for the night. They have a nice home in Hampton, N.H., filled with mementos of his years of service in the Marine Corps as well as Dartmouth memorabilia. The cords of wood stacked about the outside of the house make it look as though they are expecting an attack from hostile Indians and have the ramparts ready. Actually it is an amply supply for their woodstove, of course. The "lunch" turned out to be a super deluxe steamed clam and lobster feed at the Chauncey Creek outdoor restaurant right on the canal at Kitterey Point. What a treat! Later we went to the beach for a swim, but New Hampshire ocean water is only for real sturdy folks like Don and Russ, as winter never leaves it. After that, we dropped in to surprise Peg and Jack Costello in their large summer home overlooking the beach. The house and garage were built years ago by the Studebaker family (cars) with all the luxuries of that era. They have built living quarters on the second floor of the garage with an outside deck so they can have peace and quiet, leaving the main house to the younger generation. Jack stays interested in the Lowell Sun, family newspaper, but indicates he prefers to take it a bit easier and play lots of golf. We must say he appeared quite trim, albeit the hair line has skidded back.

We spent the next day sunning at the beach with a picnic before striking out for home. A delightful visit all round.

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