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LIFE BEGINS AT THE FORTIETH! June 15-18, 1981

Headlines from The Dartmouth, April 1981: Act Permits Semester's Delay in Student Inductions. . . Name Hall '41 Assistant DCAC Publicity Director . . . Louis Armstrong Chosen as Green Key Orchestra . . . Don Blount Wins Broad Jump, High Jump at Penn... Naval Reserve Quota Will be Filled Quickly . . . Hold Debate on War Tonight. Bolte, Loughlin, Brand, Stratton Take Platform at 8:30 in Dartmouth.

If you're in the market for a new car, you might want to take note of this: "'41 Chevrolet adds power. Horsepower stepped up to 90. Bigger body. Buick prices start at $915. Smith Auto Sales, Lebanon, N.H."

In passing along the latest packet of message-bearing dues notices, Lou Young writes that "Barb and I took daughter Sandra and son Mike to visit the Lou Young and Jeff Young families for three weeks in sunny Pebble Beach, Calif. Had a ball." Lou counts 328 classmates with dues paid as of mid-January, a good score which should be better when the books close. He didn't mention his golf scores.

Quite a bit of travel, both business and pleasure, is also reported in the notes that Lou relayed. For instance:

Tinner Gordon had just returned from a two-month cruise around South America through the Straits of Magellan. "Stopped in St. Petersburg to see Lew and Beanie Johnstone for a couple of days. Hope to be at reunion."

Bob and Mae Thorne spent last July in Vancouver, the Yukon, and Alaska "on mostly botanical business. Can't make it to reunion as I'll be desperately busy getting ready for the Botanical Congress in Sydney next summer."

Frank Munsey describes his location in Saudi Arabia as "not bad at all for a second career. Climate like Hanover in the spring, housing very satisfactory, recreational facilities adequate. The medicine is challenging and frustrating red tape runs the world around."

Ralph Colton spent most of 1980 in Brazil, as he did the two previous years, but got home for Christmas this time. "At least the business ended the year profitably. [That's Bramco Brazilian American Coffee Co.-in Lansdale, Pa.] We're manufacturing concentrated coffee extract, which we ship frozen to Japan where it is reconstituted, has milk and sugar added, and is packed ready-to-drink in 250-ml cans. A booming business. Krysia, who is still a research chemist with Merck, and I will see you at reunion."

Back on the domestic scene, George Dreher was awarded a graduate research fellowship at Yale for the academic year 1980, along with a partial sabbatical from his church in Mystic, Conn. "Researched Samuel Huntington and the influence of his Christian faith on his political life. Plan to have that ready for publication in March 1981 and to attend reunion in June 1981."

Quick notes from various places: George McCallum, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: "I retired in January 1980 and I like it!" . . . Court Young, Pittsford, N.Y.: "Our oldest son got married last spring and our youngest son is taking a course in jazz theory at the Eastman School of Music. Hard rock, anybody?" . . . Red Taft, Ft. Lee, N.J.: "Children all over. Married daughter and son both in San Diego. Oldest son in Chicago as N.B.C. radio and TV meteorologist and weather reporter." . . . Harvey Dworken, Cleveland, Ohio: "Have completed three score years and the second edition of my book on digestive diseases."

"Did anybody else notice," asks Chuck Bolte, "that the score of this year's Cornell game was the same as it was on a famous Saturday afternoon 40 years ago? Except this time they didn't change it on Monday."

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