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A letter just received from Joe Smith says, "Ruth, daughter Marcia, and I thoroughly enjoyed my 55th reunion, and arrived back in Florida none the worse for wear. I was a bit surprised to have missed only two events in Hanover, and Ruth and Marcia attended one of those for me. Although my daily activities are still somewhat limited, and will continue that way, I am already hoping to be at my 60th reunion at Andover in 1984."

Joe recommended the new Bob Newhart show on TV says Tom Poston adds his dry humor to the small cast which runs an inn in Vermont. Joe says one helper is a Dartmouth student and that Newhart mentions the Hanover Inn.

George Klein says he and Eleanor missed the 55th due to complications following Eleanor's broken hip. But on October 4 they were flying to Burlington via Peoples Express to rent a car for a week and take in the '28 parties that weekend and the William and Mary game. They planned to stay with Eleanor's sister and her husband, Alexander S. Cunningham '33, at their home in Thet ford Center.

Jerry .Warner took a lot of pictures at the 55th reunion, put them in the latest class album, and shipped it to our mini-reunion chairman, Herb Sensenig. All the pictures are labeled with the names of the people and the event and are fully indexed. Jerry has been doing this at regular and mini-reunions for years, using his own pictures and those furnished by other classmates. He has done a terrific job for the class, and all at his own expense. The eight albums were an interesting part of the photo exhibit room at our 55th reunion dormitory. Rella and he were sorry that they would miss the October 7-8 gathering.

Dick Frame sent us proofs of 40 pictures he took during the 55th reunion. Like Jerry's, they are a gift to the class. If you would like copies of any of Dick's or Jerry's reunion pictures, your secretary will be glad to answer any inquiries and let you know what is available.

Buck and Migi Serrell had to cancel their reunion reservations due to their involvement in selling their home in Greenwich, Conn., and moving. It had been quite an upheaval for the previous eight months remodeling the greenhouse and gardner's cottage on Migi's family's former home on Round Hill Road. Buck retired from active practice as a surgeon but still does a good day's work in their new abode. They were in Hanover early in September, when Buck added a few more books (the oldest being from 1704) to an earlier gift to the Dartmouth Medical School Library.

Recommended reading: A River RunsThrough It by Norman Maclean '24, a retired professor of English at the University of Chicago. I recognized the author's name as that of the brother of Paul Maclean, who was murdered on a street in Chicago in 1938. The New York Times of September 23 had a laudatory review of this reprint of Norman Maclean's novella; the review mentioned that 20,000 copies were printed by the Chicago University Press in 1976 and 50,000 more in a later paperback edition. The story super ficially about the self destruction of the narrator's brother, Paul, a great fly-fisherman who drinks, gambles, and fights too much was critically acclaimed and chosen by the Pulitzer Prize fiction jury as that year's best, only to have the Pulitzer advisory board turn down the choice. Incidentally, Norman started teaching at Dartmouth when he was 20 years old and after two years quit to be a lumberjack back in Montana. Two years later he went back to teaching at the University of Chicago.

Dusty and Natalie Griffin spent August with their sons and families at their summer home in Ludington, Mich. Son Nathaniel from Little Rock had no further word for us about Dave Russell's suit to force Getty Oil Company to honor certificates worth 90,100 shares of Getty (as described in our April notes). Son Ralph '65 left Ludington on September 1 for Washington for four years as commercial attache and first secretary at our embassy in Lisbon. In July, Dusty and Natalie had a most interesting trip to Montreal; down the St. Lawrence and up the Saguenay; through the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Thousand Islands area, Lake Ontario, and the Oswego River; and thence on to the Erie Canal, the Mohawk River, the Hudson River, and Long Island Sound to Rhode Island. They saw something of the 12 meter yachts at Newport. It sounds like a cruise on their yacht, but Dusty wrote they had lunch in White River Junction on the way to Montreal how did you manage that, Dusty?

Wayne Van Orman reports that he and Jean are leaving in December for the Algarve part of Portugal, where they spend their winters; they will return home after Easter. Curly and Allene Prosser enjoyed a two week trip in September through Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

John and Ethel Nixon might just have bumped into Maurie and Anne Makepeace while both couples were vacationing in Europe in October hope to hear more about their trips.

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