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Rex Roberts was represented in print recently by his wife, Karen, who wrote a newsy summary of life at the Robertses' homestead. She wrote that "Rex is an attorney. He is second vice president and assistant general counsel for American General Life and Accident Insurance Company." (I agree, Karen, that is a mouthful!)
"On our vacation this past summer, we came back up to Dartmouth to show the school to our boys Jason, 14, and Jeremy, 11. We arrived late on Friday night to find Hanover was having a Shriner's convention that weekend! We were lucky to find a hotel room in White River Junction. Saturday morning we attended the Shriner's parade and the rest of the day roamed around the campus. We went over to Sigma Nu and got to talk to several of the 'brothers.' They were cleaning the house, getting ready for rush. The house hadn't changed much since Rex and I were there I graduated from ColbySawyer (formerly good old Colby Jr.) in 1966. It was a real nostalgia trip for Rex and me we spent many hours at Sigma Nu. We didn't leave Hanover without dropping a bundle at Campion's everyone outfitted with Tshirts, sweatshirts, and hats!
"We have stayed in contact with two other Dartmouth grads Don Switzer, his wife, Linda, and two children stopped by Nashville to see us. They were on their way home from vacation last summer. Don is an attorney in private practice in Vinita, Okla. Summer of '83 we went camping for a week in North Carolina with John Purves, his wife, Susie, and their three children. John was Rex's Sigma Nu roommate. He is an attorney for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y."
Thank you, Karen, for bringing us up to date on the Robertses, and hi to you, Rex. Hope this was the surprise it was intended to be! I hope, also, that you are already planning your next trip to Hanover for this coming June 14-16!!!
As this column is written in late February, about 140 classmates and their families are planning to attend the 20th in June _ a great early response, with more coming in every day! You can help the reunion committee by R.S.V.P.-ing today to the registration mailing you will have received in March. For answers or more information, call: general info: LarryDuffy, reunion chairman, at 617/495-3486; gift info: Ted Atkinson, reunion gift chairman, at 800/243-5077. Either would be glad to hear from you to register, to help, to pledge, etc. If you are coming from a distance and would like to know if anyone else is coming from your area, for travel purposes, etc., call Larry, or call Jim Tonkovich '68 in Hanover at 603/646-3200.
The reunion will be a fun one, with plenty of time to relax and get caught up with class- mates. We'll be with '64 and '66, but will have fewer joint activities and more '65 time than at the 15th. Our tent will be in front of Fay- erweather Row to welcome us, whatever our arrival time on Friday (or Thursday!). Friday evening we'll be in the tent after the general alumni dinner, as we will after dinner at the DOC House on Saturday following a joint picnic at Storrs Pond. Sunday morning fea- tures a 2- or 6.7-mile run for those "in shape"; a joint memorial service; and a parting brunch. Remember, people go to reunions for a variety of reasons, but there truly is something for everyone, so I hope to see many of you back in Hanover!
Maybe the symbol of the College, or at least of the class, should be the bald eagle. We would already have a promotional piece done by our own "award-winning Boston filmmaker," Chris Knight, who has recently made a film entitled Home Free: Return of theBald Eagle. As reported in the Concord (Mass.) Journal, the film was the result of a collaboration between Chris and the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and it dramatizes the return of the endangered bald eagle to Massachusetts. The film was shown on PBS in March and was outstanding!
"The film follows wildlife photographer and naturalist Jack Swedberg to the treetops of Manitoba, where he captures baby eaglets, flies them back to the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts, and fulfills his dream to return this regal bird to this state, where it once was considered extinct."
Another of our classmates, Gary D. Parker, associate professor of physics at Norwich University, has chosen to express himself via the printed page. He wrote an article, "Galileo, Planetary Atmospheres, and the Prograde Revolution," which was to have appeared in the February 1985 issue of Science magazine. The article concerns Galileo's investigations in March 1610 of the newly discovered satellites of Jupiter.
According to the article, Galileo was attempting to formulate a correct explanation for the brightness variations of the satellites. Although the explanation that he advanced has since proven to be incorrect, he did make important contributions to the general understanding of planetary atmospheres and counterclockwise circulation within the solar system in the process of devising it.
Dartmouth College Professor Richard Joseph traveled to Africa in early 1985 on a three-week tour of Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Senegal. He was attending a conference in Zimbabwe, funded by the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., on "Decolonization in Africa: Origins and Consequences of the Transfers of Power, 1956-1980."
I regret to feport the death of one of our classmates, Jonas G. Liutkus, of Rockland, Maine, of a heart attack, on June 11, 1984. His obituary will appear in a subsequent issue of the Magazine.
29 Whittier Road Wellesley Hills, MA 02181
20th ReunionJune 14-16, 1985
