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In an update from Jerry Cutler, he writes to tell us that he spends half the year at New Smyrna Beach, Fla., and the other half back at Adrian, Mich., from which town Jerry made the big leap to Hanover back in 1917.

This year he flew to Cleveland to spend a few days with granddaughter Susan and two great grandchildren, who live at Cuyahoga Falls.

Jerry doesn't have too many complaints about his health except for arthritis (as don't we all?). His dear wife Helen passed away in October 1981. Being alone is no fun, but fortunately Jerry has many kind friends both at home and in Florida.

A golf game on occasion is fun except for his scores, which are not good (again aren't we all in that league?). He hoped to meet with Furb and MaryHaight in Hanover this fall. If it was on September 17, all of us will have been together. But by the time you read this issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE, the snow will probably cover Hanover.

Just as your secretary received the news that Dick Hart of Sarasota, Fla., had passed away, Russ Bailey had a letter from WalterHenshaw also informing us of Dick's death. Walt noted that Dick was a faithful attendee at luncheons of the Sarasota Dartmouth Club, a very active group. Dick was also involved in the Forest Lakes Golf Club (he had a ten handicap) and on most Saturday nights could be found at the Sarastoa Yacht Club dances.

Before returning to South Palm Beach for the winter, Martha and your secretary spent the week of September 10-18 in the lovely town of Hanover. Returning to the scene of my youth, and seeing Baker tower from the distance, sends thrills up and down my spine. What reminiscences, what happy memories, come pouring out of my nerve cells.

Do I think of my hours in math with Gordon Bill, or in physics with Gordon Ferrie Hull; or rather the cold brisk air on the ski slopes of Norwich and the golf course? Do I think of Herbert Darling Foster and Louis Dow, or the snappy afternoon walks to Wilder and the "Junk" or more often to the tea room at the Norwich Inn?

Am I now concerned that I didn't make Phi Beta Kappa, or do I recall that empty feeling as I drove back to Brockton, Mass., with my parents, fully aware that the lazy days of Hanover, when the afternoons were spent in the great outdoors, would no longer be mine to enjoy and to savor?

To close, doesn't the love of Dartmouth from its men and women owe much to Richard Hovey's stirring poem from which I quote one line: "Though round the girdled earth they roam, her spell on them remains."

Yes, classmates, it is that deep, appreciative spell which Dartmouth pours into us that remains with us all our lives.

A phone call to Eleanor "Kellie" Stiles brought a fast letter to update us on Kellie's life since Chick passed away in August of 1978. It was sad to learn that their son Bob '53 died in 1981. Bob's wife still lives in their home in Marblehead. Their daughter Julie graduated from Dartmouth in 1981 (cum laude). She has entered her senior year at Boston University Law. She is engaged to a Dartmouth grad who entered his senior year at Columbia Law. They plan to be married in September 1984. Their son Randy, a senior at Dartmouth, is now at the Thayer School and perhaps will finish his education at Tuck.

In a further phone conversation with Kellie, it was a surprise to learn that when FrankRoss left H. P. Hood, where he was general manager of the huge ice cream division, he and Chick joined forces to start a business selling ice cream cabinets and other ice cream items especially to the supermarkets. The merchandising of ice cream had changed, and so had Chick's food brokerage business that had existed for nearly 100 years. The supermarkets went directly to the sources of supply to eliminate brokers.

Why not quote from two well known historians about "change"? In 620 B.C. Heraclitus said, "The only thing permanent is change." In A.D. 1964 Bob Dylan said, "The times, they are changin'." In 1983, everyone say what you think!

Burdette "Bud" Weymouth '20, for 22 years afixture in the information booth on the College Green, is pictured here in the doorway ofthe booth a familiar figure to countless visitors,students, and townspeople. He was recently honored for his years of service in thisrole with the dedication in his name of a newbench on the Green. An article about thededication, which Weymouth was regrettablyunable to attend because of illness, was in"The College" section of last month's issue.

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