1941

We have to play a lot of catch-up this month. With the arrival of the remainder of last year's dues-notices, I'm up to my elbows in news items, some of them almost a year old. Will try to get the decks cleared as quickly as possible to make room for the fresh advices that (I trust) you're already attaching to those 1983-84 dues checks.

First, though, the bad news. We lost two more classmates over this past summer. Bill Power, of Lafayette, CA, died in July, and Bob O'Brien, of Winchester, MA, in August. Your sympathies have been passed on to Mary Ann and Elise respectively, and there'll be obituaries in next month's magazine.

Don't know what Lew and Beanie Johnstone did this past summer, but their 1982 summer is here on record. They wandered north from Florida to Cincinnati, Charlvoix, Ml. and St. Louis, the last-named stop being for a reunion of Beanie's family. "Her family has a lot of Dartmouth connections," Lew added, "among them being Jim Bailey of Tucson, her brother-in-law. In Cincinnati, saw Sandy Courter briefly, just retired."

Somewhere in this stack there's a note from Sandy confirming all this. He's semiretired, actually out of private practice but still doing some hospital work and he in turn spoke of an earlier visit with the Les Davises in New Mexico.

Late last fall Frank Munsey revealed that he was "roaming around parts of Europe for a bit after three exhilarating years as a pediatrician with Whittaker Corporation in Saudi Arabia. In a few weeks, Heidi and I will be back in Virginia." They were planning to be temporarily with a daughter in Williamsburg; perhaps this fall we'll get a permanent fix on them.

Gale Bailey, Herb's widow, sent word from Boca Raton that their oldest daughter, Carol, had been picked from a large field of applicants to teach sculpture at Skidmore during this past academic year.

Also from Florida Naples Chuck Reed reported the same reunion with Don Hanks, Joe Guidrey, and Bill Sleepeck that Don told us about last spring. He is currently serving as vice president of the Dartmouth Club of Southwest Florida.

Checking in as first-time grandparents: Dick and Betty Jane Spillane acquired a grandson last November. Bob Lawrence announced "a major new stage of life I'm a grandfather" but gave no details.

Frank Simpson, when he wrote, was getting ready to close up Dexter's Inn for its annual November time-out. "My youngest son, Aaron, took a year off from Bucknell worked at a sheep farm and at an inn in Scotland for six months. He's back now but is transferring to the University of New Hampshire to finish out. Bob and Joan Frondorf stopped for dinner after the Harvard game."

The Frondorfs, meanwhile, reported from Gettysburg, PA, this spring that they were "busy establishing everything possible in our garden, more or less neglected for 15 years while we lived in Hong Kong."

"Have joined the ranks of the semiretired," wrote Don Stillman last winter, in the midst of moving. "Can work out of Florida with only a trip to New York every eight or nine weeks." He and Pat are now in Tequesta.

Neither retired nor semiretired, as of last winter, was Bob Flouton. "Still working. Now have a small manufacturers' rep firm, called Nutmeg Fence Ltd., catering to the New England fence industry steel and wood fence products." That's in Wilton, CT. Same way with Wes Harper, upstate a bit in Cheshire. "Still plugging along as regional sales manager with Revere Corporation of America, a division of Wheelabrator Frye Corporation. Great outfit! Four grandchildren, nine months to 14 years. Contemplate retiring the middle of 1983." I checked that last out with Wes by phone the other evening, and it turns out he's still contemplating, but now with his eye on the end of 1983.

From Sue Hall this past June: "I'm still working at Nassau Hospital and so see Larry Kryle often. Mary is in Alesund, Norway, for July and August. She's with the Youth for Understanding program, staying with a Norwegian family. Hope to see you at the Yale game."

In California last winter, Hank Maxwell did the unthinkable gave up golf. "My golf sticks are gathering dust and cobwebs, not to mention moss. I'm a red-hot lawn bowler now! One heck of a lot cheaper than golf, which I'll leave to you older guys."

It's true, says Jordan Gotshall, who went out that way this summer to visit Yosemite, a married daughter, and the Maxwells. Found Hank still busy with amateur theatricals in the area, too. Before the trip west, Gotch represented Dartmouth at Lehigh University's inauguration of a new president. Afterwards he and Marge were in Hanover for Alumni College, where one of their classmates was Monk Larson. And when last contacted, they were packing for their annual September-October sojourn at Bonnie Oaks.

Which brings us almost, though not quite, up to date. A bit more backlog to work off next month, but we will shortly with your help, of course be back to current events.

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