1944

It's time to get the lead out, as they say in the mines. Or in training camp. Or wherever.

Anyway, it's the last time this spring we can exhort you in this column or even cajole, threaten, or bribe you to come to our 35th reunion on June 9, 10, and 11. So get behind the drive to Hanover and drive your own behind right this way.

Remember, it's Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So take the phone off the hook. Cancel the board meeting. Postpone Monday night bridge. Tell the grandchildren to pour their own milk on the crunchies.

See you the ninth.

If you don't think we've got a pair of nostrils for the latest news, now hear this: There were three '44 couples on last October's 18-day Alumni College Abroad cruise of the Mediterranean Bill and Hope Feed, Daveand Elizabeth Merrill, and Chuck and BeckyRichardson. How's that for a beachhead? And hit the beaches they did, all over the place, from Athens in the middle to Sicily in the west and Turkey in the east, guided and enlightened on "The Mediterranean World and the Classical Tradition" by two Dartmouth professors, Bien and McGrath.

Our impeccable filing system has temporarily misplaced a dandy Christmas card from Wemo Epply, who wrote of sun and surf and sand in sunny, surfy, sandy Ventura, Calif., where he's still ready to sell you his tennis wares. Says he'll be east this spring and that's to look forward to.

Into our hands has come a Keene, N.H., playbill (nicely smudged with greasepaint, of course) containing the fair countenance of Bob Smith's wife Janet, who appeared in the February production of How to Succeed inBusiness Without Really Trying. She is a veteran thespian (and a professional nurse), having appeared in a half-dozen musicals in the Keene area.

I forget just how much Dick Ranger news from Brazil was covered in recent newsletters, but one can't over-report Carol's golf feat down there among the coffee beans (and Ford parts and service). She wrote: "In August I hit my first hole-in-one (159 yards, #4 wood) and was speechless in both English and Portuguese also a first."

That handsome, tanned, silver-haired fellow we saw in the bank the other day was FredDaley. He and Trudy were just back from a thing in Florida that brought four generations together under one roof, and that doesn't happen every day.

And them's the slim pickins for this month - quantity, not quality, of course. That's all right. We'll catch up with you in June and pick all your brains and resumes clean. Just call me Jimmie Valentine. . . That's it. Blessings.

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