1967

Our reunion will be history by the time you read this column. Many of us will have returned to Hanover for a few days of reminiscence and gone our separate ways again, with what I hope will be nothing but the fondest memories for all. It appears our reunion committee has been hard at work, lining up an array of activities which promises to make a gathering already brief pass, as it were, in the twinkling of an eye.

Larry Langford recently dropped me a note of the kind which brings a giggle of glee from your faithful secretary. Larry's been doing an admirable job of keeping up with his classmates and is good enough to share the wealth of news he's gathered. He visited Charlie Hoeveler recently at Charlie's home in Ross, Calif., and had dinner with John Meek, who's moving to the San Francisco Bay area. Larry says Charlie and Jan are expecting child number four in June (to join Katie, Charles, and Wendy), and so will miss reunion. Although this means Charlie will miss Bill Lamb's Saturday tennis tournament, Larry reports that Charlie's still swinging a racquet with the "over-35" crowd.

Larry continues: "Emily and I are still in Wellesley, Mass., with Margaret (12), Lydia (eight), and George (three). I see Ed Gray once in a while. He and Becky are having another child to join Hope and Sam. Curt Anderson is getting married, bought a house in Dover, Mass., and is also playing tennis in the over-35 circuit."

Jeff Pond dropped me a note in April, to share with us what he's been up to for the last nine years. Jeff is president of Charles G. Hilgenhurst Associates Inc., an architectural firm in Boston. He's been with Hilgerihurst since he returned from a tour with the Peace Corps in Iran in 1973. Three years ago, Jeff and several colleagues bought the firm from the founder's family. The firm does a wide range of work, including the Apple Hill retail and office complex to be built along U.S. Route 9 in Natick, and the conversion of two Back Bay townhouses into luxury condominiums (condominia?).

Tom and Mollyanne Maremaa were looking forward to coming east from Berkeley, Calif., for reunion. It's something of a businesspleasure mix for Tom, who expected to deliver his second novel:— "an 800-page monster" to his publisher in New York. "The novel," Tom writes, "opens in Europe in 1914 and spans the century, with a great deal of the story about the Vietnam era in the sixties. Meanwhile, like everyone else, we've had a long, hard winter in California: much rain and cold."

Bill Chase has been the modern American historian in a four-person department at Western Maryland College ("30 miles west of Baltimore in pastoral Carroll County, Md.") since 1981. Bill has recently published a book, TheAmerican Law School and the Rise of Administrative Government (University of Wisconsin Press, 1982). The book "reveals the evil wrought upon American government by the sinister influence of the Harvard Law School (one of my alma maters a case of matricide, I guess) something which Dartmouth men (and women) know instinctively, but of which the general public is uninformed."

COMAP Inc. (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications) of Lexington, Mass., recently published an article congratulating Christopher Nevison on his receipt of a grant from the Apple Education Foundation for the development of innovative instructional computer software. A math professor at Colgate University, Chris is working on two new computer programs to teach computer modeling and simulation to the non-specialist, to be accompanied by teaching notes. The new materials will be tested at Colgate.

Broadcast journalist Andy Barrie was featured in the March 1983 issue of Quest maga- zine, for his enthusiastic venturing into the realm of do-it-yourself television production. It seems the T.V. camera may be on the verge of replacing the old super-8 movie camera as the medium of choice for. chronicling American family histories. The article points out that once you've made the initial investment in equipment, videotape is cheaper than movie film. the results are immediate, unwanted porrions of the tape may be erased, and tapes may be stored indefinitely without appreciable loss of quality.

That's it for now. To all of you who took the time to write, many thanks. It's always great to heat from you!

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