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The big event of the fall was the mini-reunion held in Hanover the weekend of the Cornell game. The class will be relieved to know that its executive committee was there in force, and that the business of the class was transacted expeditiously, with President Dick Rugen at the helm. Present were Allan Dingwall, Jim Farley, Charlie Weinberg, Bob Kerr, Ad Winship, Jim O'Mara, Harry Bond, Bob Encherman, Warren Kreter, Guy Swenson, and your secretary.

Rugen, Farley, and Encherman are legitimate retirees and love it. Farley said that he and wife Muffin have hardly been home (Cor- nish, N.H.) for two of the past 12 months. They spent nearly three months touring the USA and then floated about the Greek Isles for a while before capping it all off with a vacation in Nantucket.

Bob and Mary Kirk also took in the Greek Isles, by luxury liner, and recommend the area as a great home away from home. They are not retired. Neither is Ad Winship, despite rumors to the contrary. The rest of the members of the executive committee are still very much treading their well-worn paths towards who knows what.

Chuck Weinberg reported that in nailing four members of the committee, the first four to enter the room, he rounded out his full compliment of class agents for next year's Alumni Fund. Since the 1984 fund will be the 70th annual effort for the College, Chuck suspects that the goal will be over $10 million, with a companion target of 70 percent participation. The actual participation figure this year was 63 percent.

No one could tell whether the recent increase in dues had brought the class back to solvency, because Treasurer Leo Caproni could not attend and had dropped no hints to that effect in his note. Winship assured the group that "no matter, our credit here is good."

Harry Bond suggested that the class might enjoy a project, such as bringing out a 50-year book on the idea of our 25-year volume. Some suggested that 1992 was too far out and opted for a 45-year target. A subcommittee of the "locals" was instructed to "work on .it." The executive committee then voted for October 20, 1984, the Harvard game weekend, as the date for the next mini-reunion, and disbanded.

The actual reunion took place Friday night at the DOC House and totaled some 33 classmates, 26 wives, and one POSSLQ. This was our first BYOB affair and it went off beautifully. It was particularly lovely for Allan Ding-wall, who did not have to offer 57 varieties of booze for our widely varied palates. Some of those attending live so close by they came on foot. Most impressive was Jim O'Mara, who drove his own twin-engine Piper Aztec up from Washington, D.C. He tried to get DickLippman to ride along with him, but Dick was too busy moving to a condominium in Manhattan from Philadelphia to accept the offer. During the course of the evening BobKirk announced that this was his 65th birthday and that he was not the oldest member of the class. Neither, he claimed, was Ad Winship the youngest. This led to a small twoman debate between Jim Farley and TedArico over who was the shortest.

The reunion continued the next day with tail-gating and the football game and scattered dinners in the increasing number of fancy restaurants in the Hanover-NorwichWhite River area. These autumnal get-to- gethers are a real pleasure. Those who haven't tried one should.

Ed Doty stopped by briefly recently and said that he had no notion of retiring. "Why should I," said the administrative vice president of SUNY's University of Buffalo, "when they have just given me $114 million of taxpayers' money to build laboratories, dormitories, and all sorts of other things for the university?" Ed went on to say, "Don't forget, we in academe can spend whatever you folks alumni, tax-payers, at al. can pony up."

Joe Wilder, professor of surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has had yet another painting make the cover of the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association, his seventh. This time it is of third baseman Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies. Joe said, "Schmidt caught my eye because I think he has one of the most beautiful swings in baseball and moves with tremendous grace." This leading medicine man in our class is also an avid sportsman and writer as well as an artist.

We got this piece on Joe from Dick Cordoza, another big medical power in the class. Dick has just resigned after many years as president of the Hitchcock Clinic and says that in his new job, president emeritus, all he has to do "is tear up medical journals."

And that does it for the month.

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