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The 1982 Alumni Fund was a rousing success, with 65.6 per cent giving $9,084,000. Our class's outstanding contribution to this effort was orchestrated by Frank Chase, who has been congratulated by the College for breaking the 27th-year-out Alumni Fund record. The unique loyalty of Dartmouth men and women is also evidenced in the recently graduated class of 1982. Their 183 class agents produced pledges for the 1983 campaign from 87 per cent of their classmates!

Dartmouth's commitment to the arts took another giant stride forward with the announcement of the construction of the Hood Museum of Art, to be adjacent to Hopkins Center, scheduled for opening in 1984. The existing Hopkins programs will be further enriched by this new major center devoted solely to the fine arts. The College's outstanding collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, drawings, and anthropological and decorative arts will be displayed. Additional space will be utilized for a varied program of changing exhibitions. The Hood Museum will adjoin Hopkins Center on the east and will comprise ten galleries plus classrooms, research and conservation facilities, storage for collections, offices for professional staff, and a 250 seat auditorium. The 38,000-square-foot museum is named in memory of long-time trustee, the late Harvey P. Hood, class of 1918. Imagine how different some of our career paths might have been if we had had the advantage of similar facilities in the fifties.

I recently had an opportunity to talk with Jud Hale, our New Hampshire publisher/author of Yankee magazine fame. He has written a book, Inside New England, which will be published by Harper and Row. Jud's marketing gimmick is that he is spreading by word of mouth the fact that there is a chapter on local sex scandals, and he attributes to this the initial clamor to buy the first 11 books ofF the press. New Englanders, beware!

Dave Miller has joined Ramapo Financial Corporation in Wayne, N.J., as secretarytreasurer and chief financial officer. This is a multi-bank holding company and Dave oversees all financial and many operational areas of both the holding company and the member banks. Dave's past history, for those of you who have lost track of him, is as follows: He served five years as a Marine Corps officer and applied the tough mentality fostered there to stints with Price Waterhouse and Company and American Cyanamid Company. He currently resides in Wayne with his wife Betsey and family and is active in various alumni activities and civic affairs.

In Stamford, Conn., Earle Bensing has been appointed vice president and general manager of Champion International Corporation's DairyPak division. After graduating from Tuck School, Earle joined Champion in 1956, and he has held sales and marketing positions in the company's nationwide paper divisions. DairyPak produces approximately 40 per cent of the milk and juice cartons manufactured in the United States and Earle will direct these operations. The news release from Champion failed to bring us up to date on Earle's family details.

Sadly, I regret having to inform you of the death of our classmate Michael Fiedling, who passed on earlier this year in Evanston, Ill., of a heart attack. Our sympathies have been extended to his wife and family, and, as is traditional, a memorial book in Mike's name has been purchased for the library. An obituary will appear in a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE.

Also, we were all saddened to l earn that James W. (Jim) Campion III, Ron Campion's brother and co-owner of James Campion Inc., died April 7 of a heart attack while returning from a skiing holiday in Colorado. Our belated sympathy to the Campion family.

We look forward to seeing many of you at our next class mini-reunion the weekend of October 15 for Dartmouth Night and the Harvard game. We will be ensconced at the Sherton Inn in Lebanon as usual.

Looking ahead to our 30th in 1984, anyone who wishes to become involved in the planning process please contact Bob Bagdasarian, who is chairing the reunion for our class. His address is 233 Gardner Road, Ridgewood, N.J.

89 Cedar Cove Lane Swansea, Mass. 02777