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Duke University Medical Center gave its 1984 Distinguished Alumnus Award to Dr. Jerome S. Harris. Jerry is professor of pediatrics and biochemistry and was chairman of Duke's department of obstetrics and gynecology from 1954 to 1968.

Dr. Nick Vincent has retired again and is back in Columbia, S.C. He's keeping in touch with Dartmouth clubs in South Carolina and Sarasota, Fla., and is thinking of taking on part-time duty at a mental health clinic. Dr. Irving Hansmann of Council Bluffs, lowa, says he's plugging along, doctoring mentally retarded kids at a state hospital, and says that it keeps his blood circulating. Dr. Frank Foster is a special blessing to some of our Hanover classmates. Frank writes with perceptive understanding of the changes in the College's administration.

Charley Dudley reports carefully on cleaning up the last bills from our reunion. He's still running and plugging Lebanon College. Harris Huston skipped the fall reunion to let a new hip grow into place but sure plans to make it in '85. He mentions the "Wearers of the Green" party and reminds me that our watches have "Penna Relay 29," instead of numbers on their dials and "One-Mile College Relay Champions of America," on the back. Mai Pratt '31 and our great GerrySwope had the other two.

Lew and Gail Clarke are back in Waukegan, Ill., from a 1,400-mile cruise in their 40foot motor sailer. Lew says, "Now we can turn our attention to bird hunting." The RichRimbacks are back to Maui, singing the praises of the Holland-American line's Noordam and an Alaskan cruise. Frank and ElsieWeeks are back from Frank's latest photographic trip, this time around the globe. His slides are in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Chicago Art Museum, and other notable places. Frank still writes a monthly letter for the Chicago University Club's newsletter.

A1 Welch took a two-day cruise on the Mississippi, from Prairie du Chien to LaCrosse, and says, "Nearly as lovely as the Connecticut. Passed the Mississippi Queen, which looked nearly as big as an ocean liner." These are fun adventures to hear about, but I'd be happy to hear even a word or two from some of us who do our part by just hanging on. Lucille Rolfe sent Bing Carter a lovely note just before Maury died, and she closed with "Onward, Dartmouth." Bless her. PollyChinlund and family are promoting the establishment of day care centers for adults. In Ed's final year he needed lots of care but also a change of scene. He looked forward happily each day to going to Daybreak, a center run by two nurses in Lebanon. Polly will gladly tell you more about it.

Our local paper reported that the LarryHales lost a lovely blue spruce from their yard to Christmas tree foragers. It also said that Harmon Tupper's bag was dropped from a Boston-to-Nantucket plane flight. They turned back and located it in east Boston. Sorry, no other details available.

Dick Burke and a lot of us agonize about The Review. We believe the College needs such a paper, and we know it gives a special opportunity to many students, but they sure go about things the wrong way. Let's keep telling 'em.

The best and worst of man's inventions Have started off with good intentions, But, as some sage has said it well, They often pave the way to Hell. The more we're bitter in attack The more folks burn to pay us back. We'll never reach them 'til at last we can Decry the evil but persuade the man.

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