1929

Your welcome notes with dues payments bring these bits. Dick Owsley is outnumbered 15 to 1 in Islesboro, Maine, and says, "I'm still glad I went to Dartmouth." Morgan Baker, in Santa Barbara, has been in and out of hospitals for two years but hopes he's returning now to his old self. He can drive and get about. Marge is well and glad they're living at Casa Dorinda.

Art Bergeron retired from general law in 1979. He and his wife are in reasonably good health, spending summers at camp on a lake in Milan, N.H., and winters in Lake Worth, Fla. Al Floyd from Lynnwood, Calif., does his athletics watching the Dodgers on television. With some trouble walking and the parking situation in Hanover he doubts if he'll make it back again. Perley Perkins sees Millard and Marge Tucker when they summer in Marblehead, Mass. The Tuckers head for their home in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., by late October.

Earl Flyer's son, John '65, an English professor at Tufts, was awarded a Guggenheim grant and is in Berkeley, Calif., writing another book on Chaucer. Earl gets down to the clinic in Hanover occasionally and joins the coffee klatch at the Inn Coffee Shop. Paul Babcock says all is fine at Ossippee Lake. He hopes his four grandsons will be heading for Dartmouth in a few years. Sonny Hetfield is heading for Naples, Fla., too soon to make the fall reunion at Hanover.

Harris Huston had several delightful days with Herb and Peggy Fish in western North Carolina and says they looked pert and alert. He believes the cool, damp weather is the break Floridians need.

The Phil Mayhers, Bill Magenaus, John Laffeys, and Ripleys were at the Cape Cod Dartmouth Club's September clam bake in Dennis. Larry and Annamarie Hale recently had a good Dartmouth group in for cocktails at their lovely condominium at Wood Rise in Falmouth, Mass. Classmates there were the John Quebmans, the Allan Finlays, and the Ripleys. The August Yankee magazine refers to Bob Monahan as one of the two who established the weather station on Mount Washington. We all take a little pride in that.

We have a great letter from Joe O'Leary from Okemos, Mich. In 1958 Joe changed from university teaching to financial planning for the Michigan State Highway Department. He also taught governmental accounting at his local community college, retiring in 1978 at age 70. He wishes that course were a compulsory requirement for all legislators and government executives. One excerpt from his letter, "As for politicians, most of them look ahead but only as far as the next election." He closes, "To you and any remaining 'old soldiers who have not yet dried up and blown away, health, happiness, and good luck."

Here's one for you, Joe: Folks march and shout and sing about How much they hate the nukes, Cry, "Ban the bomb!" and carry on With virtuous rebukes. They sing the praise of good old days And curse all man's inventions, And prove right well the road to hell Is paved with good intentions.

Fred Watson '30 and his wife Ann (secondfrom right and far right) had some help celebrating tarrecent 50th wedding anniversary from their three children-(from left to right) Fred Jr. '59, Robert' 66, and Kathryn, New Mexico State '77. The Watsons are a multi-generation Dartmouth family, since Fred Sr. was preceded in Hanover by his father, William '03, and followed by his brother, William Jr. '38.

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