1963

The top of the news is the response that Reunion Chair John Lehman has gotten as of this writing. It's already clear that our "Happy Days" reunion June 18-20 in Hanover will be the biggest in the class's history. More people have indicated they'll be there than were present at our 15th. However, John reports that we don t have as many coming as the classes of 1961 and 1962, with whom we are co-reunioning. For some reason we seem to be a little slower to respond - so let's get those cards and letters coming in.

Remember, Thad Seymour will be there; there's a great all-day program for the kids; and there's nothing quite like early summer in Hanover. Groups of friends who want to have rooms in proximity to one another can be accommodated, John tells me, if they get their request in soon.

For Steve Swirsky, the reunion will have a special poignance. He will have been in Hanover the weekend before to watch his son Seth graduate. Talk about time flying. At the other en of the time continuum, Mike Cardozo expects to be there with a new baby. Big delegations are coming from California and Atlanta.

Some of those who will not be coming have come up with fairly good excuses, John reports. John Fischer, who is now a doctor in Verdi, Nev., expects to be halfway up Mt. McKinley at about the time we're gathering for the preppies and greasers party. John says he'll miss us. . . . Chuck Goldthwaite will be in the middle of relocating to Johannesburg, South Africa, where of the operations of Chesebrough-Ponds International. . . . and Kevin Lowther is back at work in Zambia, and didn't think he'd be back either.

News is also coming in on other fronts. Our doctors seem to be doing well. Ed Smith of Santa Maria, Calif., reports that he has a new house, a new office, and was recently remarried (to the former Bonnie Forest). He has also been board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He also has a new car, but that doesn't seem to be working out quite as well as the other new things in his life. Ed reports that he gets "to visit my Porsche in the shop from time to time."

Fred Jarrett, who is practicing vascular and general surgery at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh (and teaching at the University of Pittsburgh), recently presented papers on the clinical experience he and his colleagues at Montefiore have had. The papers were presented in Athens at the International Cardiovascular Society's biennial world congress, and in London at the International Vascular Symposium.

Dan Watt's widow, Mary, wrote to pass on the news that she has remarried and is living in Brunswick, Maine. (Her married name is Mary H.J. Lord.) She says that the two children she and Dan had - Margaret, 13, and James, 11 - are fine, and that about every other year they get a chance to go out to Seattle to see Dan's family. Dan died back in 1973.

Mike Moriarty has probably provided more grist for this column than any other class member - and deservedly so. (I often wonder what I would have done without him, and let me take this opportunity, in what will be one of my final columns, to express my gratitude publicly.) What's more, as luck would have it, just when I'm looking for a "kicker" to finish up this column, another press clipping featuring Mike slides through the mail slot.

This time it's a review of the play DexterCreed that Mike has written, and acts in, and which opened in New York earlier this year. The play is described in the New York Times as "a theatrical prank and an in-joke" in which Mike gets a chance to strike back at theatrical critics by writing a play about an actor's war with a critic. But it works. The Joseph Pappproduced play gets its point across, reviewer Mel Gussow implies, as effectively as the gesture made some years ago by an irate actress who dumped a plate of pasta on a reviewer's head.

On opening night, with an audience salted heavily with critics, "a shudder of laughter and discomfort ran through the house" as the play unfolded, according to Gussow.

But Mike also indicates some sympathy for the plight of Dexter Creed, the polysyllabic critic and incurable punster who is the target of his writing and dramatic skills. The critic's credo is given as the following: "It's my job to go where I'm not wanted."

Two United States Senators - Paul Tsongas '62 (D-Mass.), left, and T. Slade Gorton '49 (RWash.) took part in celebrations honoring the 200 th birthday of one of Dartmouth's mostfamous sons, Daniel Webster. They are standing here before a statue of Webster in the U.S. CapitolBuilding's Statuary Hall.

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