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At the end of 1981, Phil O'Connell reported from Glen Ridge, N.J.: "An eventful year four grandchildren married that makes 13 to go! Also (and most important) our first great-grandchild. Eileen and I are quite well in fact, pretty good if you don't ask for details. Played my age at Montclair Golf Club - 78. It's a tough course. The U.S.G.A. men's amateur is to be played there in 1985 - hope I can be there! Off to Belleair, Fla., after Xmas. Hope we have some warm weather this year."

In a letter to the Boston Herald American published early in January, Bill Sleigh of Marblehead outlines a detailed and thoughtful proposal for an alternative to the death penalty in our legal system. Bill continues to be active in his Boston law practice and constructive in his thinking about the problems of his profession and of society.

Ted Geisel has received the Regina Medal Award, honoring excellence in children's literature, from the Catholic Library Association). Presentation was schedoled for April 3 at the association's 61st annual convention in Chicago.

Dot Leavitt, who played field hockey in high school and college (Vassar), established an award at Dartmouth in her name last fall to be given annually to "the player on the varsity squad who has made the greatest contribution to the field hockey program, both on and off the field." Dot and Larry attended a gathering of the team in the Oberlander Lounge of Alumni Gymnasium at which Dot presented the first annual award to the winner, Captain Joanne Taplin '83. Dot made some remarks tying in past history, recalling that she had been present at the laying of the cornerstone of the gym, and noting that her father's Football Hall of Fame award is over the fireplace in the lounge and that pictures of both her husband and her father are on the walls. The team won the Northeast Region I championship and thus qualified for the nationals at the University of California, where they performed creditably but did not win.

Dr. Rosalyn Yalow visited the College at the end of February as a Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Fellow. She is a nuclear physicist who won a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1977. She is the sixth scientist to participate in a series of lectures sponsored by the Montgomery Endowment.

The Dartmouth Educational Association is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of Massachusetts in 1896 for the purpose of assisting needy students at the College. Its capital has been accumulated from annual dues (now $20), life membership fees, gifts, and interest. Loans are made only to students approved by the Office of Financial Aid at the College. There are 42 1925 classmates who are currently members of the association, seven of them being life members. Total membership is now 1,900, and the office of the clerk is at 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. 02110.

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