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If you haven't yet sent in your check to the Alumni Fund, drop everything else and drop one in the mail! Then continue reading at paragraph number two!
For those of you in the environs of Orlando, here's word of the establishment of the Better Business Bureau of Central Florida Inc. This information comes from none other than the president of the new organization, DukeMills, a prime mover in getting this office established. With a problem, or even without one, why not contact Duke at his office in Orlando?
Another Floridian, George Goodman, writes from Boynton Beach of contact with Charlie Lebeaux, Doc Luria, and Joe Sholkin, and of plans to attend our 50th. He adds this intriguing comment, "I think I am the only classmate whose diploma has the signatures of Ralph Lazarus and John Kemeny. It's a replacement for my own, which was badly damaged."
Still more news from Florida it gives me a certain warm feeling while writing this during a late-March snowstorm! Bob Richter recounts the visitors to the Sarasota area like Moulton, Webster, Spechts, Ritchie, Fellows, Dann, McLellan, Bryant, Saunders,Ferries, Ryder, and Sherwood. They certainly seem to have a wonderful time there. It's a great temptation to join in. We understand Howie and Mary Croninger have done so in March.
Bob McLellan reports that fellow summertime Cape Codder and classmate, Sam Boggess of Chatham, Mass., is, in the winter, a very successful charter fisherman out of Boca Raton. Look him up one place or the other and urge him to join us at reunion!
From Florida also, Art Allyn has been enjoying school graduations of grandchildren and more recently a trip to London to acquire more butterflies. That Allyn Museum of Entomology in Sarasota must be a spectacular place to visit!
From Chicago we hear that Jack Egan's company won't let him retire. The business, formerly a division of Jim Walter, was sold to Overhead Door, and Jack is functioning as field sales manager of the Rolling Overhead Door industrial operation.
Herb Ostrow is still active in his CPA firm. Finds it difficult to cut back to half time and still satisfy clients' needs.
Thank you, Dick Montgomery, for this info!
Perhaps we have been overdoing the mention of all those hip replacements and multiple heart bypasses. But just one more time for the record, and perhaps a record, Harry Libbey reports from his home in Arlington, Va., a very successful five-way bypass!
Larry Sommer is very active on the political scene out there in Mendocino, Calif. As living proof that you can't believe everything you read in the newspapers the local paper announced him as the new president of the AAUW! While he had spent a few hours as an undergraduate on the Smith College campus he felt he should correct the publication to say that it was really the AARP which he headed.
One of our busiest classmates is BarneyTomlinson, town engineer in Bradford, Vt., where he's designing a new sand filter and reservoir and a new park and parking area, as well as making a permanent record of water mains and connections - work not done for 40 years.
Jim and Jean LeSure, after 27 years in the same place, have moved 0.9 miles within Manchester, Conn. She didn't want to go south and he didn't want to go north. So! Jim is "keeping busy with golf, tennis, music, reading, a bit of writing, and a delightful penchant for goofing off."
A card from Ted Harbaugh is best presented in his own words: "On October 6, 1983, representatives of the Toledo YMCA's Camp Storer presented a check to the board chairman of the new YMCA in Toledo, Spain. This project started in April 1982 when Kay and I were in Madrid for the opening of the El Greco Exhibition. We looked up some YMCA friends there and talked about building a closer relationship between our two countries. Last summer we had campers and counselors from Toledo, Spain, and next summer some of our young people will go there. The Ministry of Justice sent one of their top officials to visit us. We know that their government is much interested in the way we teach young people how to be responsible citizens."
Among the cards which came back as a result of the "Tear Bag" mailing is one from Oran Waterman, which he calls his first report since he left Dartmouth after two years with us! With a law degree, he entered the FBI during the war, left in 1945 for private enterprise, including two years with Bill Harloe, joined the Air Force in 1949 during the Korean conflict, rejoined the Justice Department as an attorney in 1951, and retired as assistant to the attorney general in 1975. Now lives in the summer in Fairfax, Va., and in winter in Miami. A very welcome closing quote: "See you at reunion!"
Your plans should by now be made for our annual fall reunion the weekend of the New Hampshire football game, September 28-29.
Then it's on to June 7-9, 1985, and: THE BIG FIVE-OH '35, LET'S GO!
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