1943

Despite the names of classmates that appear here and in Eddie O'Brien's magnificent newsletter, we have little or no communication with about one-fourth of the class. In addition, in the latest printout of class members, there are 17 who have told the College they are "not interested" in further contact. Curiosity finally got the better of me in midFebruary, and 1 called Dr. Harry C. Sayre in Warwick, N.Y. "Doc," as we knew him in undergraduate years, has a flourishing family practice in Warwick, which he took over from his father. I had not talked with Doc for 44 years. He said he had always intended to get more involved in class and College affairs but never got around to it. I'm going to try to lure him to Hanover next fall for the mini-reunion. He still bubbles with enthusiasm and has a delightful, somewhat self-deprecating sense of humor. He said that he was last in Hanover in 1971 when his son, Jim '71, graduated. "I got lost on the way to Hanover," Doc added.

Miles (Bud) Lasser is planning to retire in June from the prestigious accounting firm of Seidman and Seidman in Jamestown, N.Y. For the past year, he was supposed to have been semi-retired, but he's been writing a book about the 75-year history of the accounting firm, and it's been an almost full-time occupation. The book, intended only for internal distribution, is due out in April. The firm formerly was headed by Bud's first cousin, Bill Seidman, who left it in 1974 to become economic advisor to President Gerald Ford, later became a vice president of Phelps Dodge (headed, of course, by George Munroe), and now is dean of the school of business administration at Arizona State University.

Dick Pierce reports from Springfield, Vt., that he's sold his travel agency, Pierce-Barton Travel, and intends to go into active retirement. Dick sounded in fine fettle on the telephone. He had a rough four years from 1977 through 1981 bouts with cancer (Bodie Mosenthal's brother Bill '38 operated on Dick), a heart seizure, and a stroke, in that order. Dick, a stamp collector, tells of receiving a boxful of letters from the estate of the late John Stanley, onetime U.S. attorney for New Hampshire. In reviewing the contents, he spotted a program from a grade school play in which Stanley's son had appeared. In scanning the cast of characters, Dick spotted the name Martin Borofsky; Martin played a character named "Fat Clark." Dick picked up the telephone and called Marty in Claremont, N.H., to see if it was the same Martin Borofsky. Marty didn't remember the part, Dick reports, but, yes, he had attended that grade school in Concord, N.H., and Stanley's son was a classmate.

Geologist Edgar (Ted) Driver has taken early retirement as general manager of petroleum exploration research and development for the Gulf Oil Company in Wexford, Pa., and has formed a new company, with a partner, to improve oil exploration. It's called Microsweeps.

Eddie O'Brien, who's been doing films and texts for General Motors for more than 30 years, has agreed to produce a film on computers that's about Dartmouth freshmen. The production is just in the incubation stage at this writing (February), but the name for the film already has been chosen: "Little Green Apples."

Betty and John Hyde are planning an aut omobile trip to Almagordo, N.M., via Kent ucky and New Orleans, to visit their second daughter, Sarah, who's an archeologist. They plan to be gone for three weeks, with stopovers to visit relatives en route. They will have returned by the time you read this. Departure scheduled for late February.

I don't usually report animal fatalities in this space, but this one is an exception. Nancy Elliott's Cairn terrier, Daphne, died of a heart attack unexpectedly in January while frolicking in a snow bank. The pooch was widely and affectionately known in Blunt Alumni Center, where Nancy presides as director of Special Alumni Services. Nancy is an adopted 1943.

Bob Gray, a former Navy pilot, onetime lawyer for the Civil Aeronautics Board and new resident of New London, N.H., was invited to Jordan in February to speak on behalf of the Flight Safety Association, with which he's long been affiliated. Bob and Suzie both made the trip.

We've just received word that New York advertising executive Bruce W. Jones died February 7 of a heart seizure in New Canaan, Conn. He's survived by his wife, Mary, and a daughter, Mary.

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