1944

The mail bag is flaccid this month as we write at home, slightly mauled and a mite flaccid in our own right. We were doing a little chimney sweeping and managed to fall off the roof— a sideways one-and-a-half, with a three eighth twist, in a tuck position; degree of difficulty 2.8. Two broken ribs, a fat lip, and bruised pride. We are still 39, aren't we?

The College, of course, almost came to a grinding halt. I was out, and my assistant, Nancy Hagen, took her pail and shovel off for a week in the Bahamas. She stayed with Barbara and Dick Mayberry, at a place they maintain there for escapes from Rochester winters. At Treasure Cay, wherever that is; never having been in the area, I wouldn't know a Bahama from a balbriggan.

A Hagen son, Doc Hagen '68, was back in the States on a visit from his assignment at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Naples; another son, Mark, is a four-star computer jock in Boston; and daughter Donna lives in Virginia.

We've got some other random notes on '44 kids. Kids, ha! Some of them are in their midthirties. Anyway, John and Jeanne Weeks report that daughter Kate '76 has "a quite responsible position with the Harvard Community Health Plan an H.M.O. called H.C.H.P. in Beantown where she talks to people and to computers and seems to make sense to both."

It slipped by us at last year's commencement that Amy Zins '82 is the niece of our Gene and Adele Zins and, incidentally, the daughter of Jerry Zins '48, Gene's brother, natch. Also graduating last year was the late Bill Brewster's nephew, Seth '82, son of brother Seward '5O. Another nephew, William T., is a Dartmouth '83.

A couple of graduate-schoolers we've heard about: the late Shih-Yueh and Carol Wang's daughter, Elizabeth '8l, is at Yale, and daughter Hilda '82 is at Tuck. George and Rosalind Springsteen's George 'BO is in law school at Case Western.

Among the marrieds: Bill and Hope Fead's daughter Kelly '78 married Gary Slack 76 in August 1980; and Joe and Dot MacFarland's daughter Mary '82 married Charles Seibert '79 last July and is teaching fourth grade in Austin, Tex.

Penn and Ruth Frost report the birth of a first grandchild, Sarah Elizabeth, born to Carlton IV '74 last year. If she makes Dartmouth in the class of 2004, she would represent the sixth Frost generation in a row to wear the Green. In modern times, Penn's uncle, Tom, was a '24, Penn a '44, son Carlton a '74, and Sarah could be a 2004 all ending in fours, as Penn points out.

Dave and Patti Eckels's son Mark '73, a geologist and vice president with Meteri Exploration, living in Denver and exploring in Upton, Wyo., is looking for a change into oil lease sales. He and his wife are also expecting their first in June.

Rod Morgan's son, Rod Jr. '69, is also changing jobs. He's been with the Hartford, Conn., National Bank and has just been offered a splendid new assignment with Etna Life Insurance. He and his wife and two kids get to stay right in their local split-ranch, with the same commute.

We can tell you a bit about Ginny and Dick Revenaugh's kids, too, but a word about Dick first. They live on the water in Fairfield, Conn., and Dick has spent most of his life in the insurance business. This past September he wasn't feeling his tigerish, tennis-y self and he went in for a quadruple heart by-pass. It was successful, but he was not feeling all that great and so the docs went in again to see whether or not they'd mistakenly left a jammy-bottom or something in there. Turned out they did do a little more needlework.

Then this past January another operation rid the Rev of his gall bladder, and that's where he stands today: back in the office days, out on the tennis courts weekends. "He's an iron man," says wife Ginny. The kids: John with pa in the insurance business; Rich with a glass company; David a marine broker; and daughter Michelle is with northeast utilities. So there.

Happy news from widower A l Faber, our Stamford, Conn., investment broker. He stopped in Hanover recently with his new fiancee on the way back from some Vermont skiing, with a June wedding in view.

The eighth annual law day in memory of Michael Feldman '71 had as its theme this March, "In Search of Education." It was held in Weston, Mass.

Hate to end on a sad note: Fred Graf died February 14 while vacationing in Venice, Fla. He had had heart troubles in recent years. Our sympathies to his family; an obituary will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the MAGAZINE. The news came from Ralph "Bud"Rieth, who grew up with Fred in Keene, N.H. They were roommates at Tuck and in business together (fabrics) for 25 years. Bud says he may be winding down his current teaching career: "I'm still teaching at the University of Lowell and enjoying it very much. This is my tenure and promotion year, so depending on the outcome, I may be finishing up in a year from now. But no regrets. Em and I are very much into landscape gardening."

That's it. Blessings.

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