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Two deaths in the class to report this month. Jerry Donohue, a noted chemist who was most recently honored as an outstanding teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, died in February. Bill Lowry, a leading Cleveland lawyer who was honored in the city as a public-interest lawyer, died in March. Obituaries for both will appear in this or a subsequent issue of the Magazine.

A clipping of the newspaper report on Bill's passing came to me courtesy of another Clevelander, Dr. Harvey Dworken, who was a pallbearer at the funeral at St. Paul's Church in Cleveland Heights. "Otherwise," Harv's note said, "I'm well and still an unretired professor, trying to heal individual if not global ills."

Dick Krolik managed to escape the worst of the Washington, D.C., winter by leaving on Inauguration Day on a trip to Jamaica. "I played five rounds of golf in six days on the gorgeous course at Tryall near Montego. The riots were hardly that, and they were way over in Kingston, and everything was calm and smiling as usual. Except for the hotel owners, who were severely damaged by the TV coverage of a couple of old cars and tires burning."

From Osterville, Mass., comes a nice long letter from Etty Hamilton, which centers on a suggestion for any of you who haven't made vacation plans. She writes: "If you would like one of the best summers you've ever had, enroll in one of the Language Outreach Programs (ALPS) that Dartmouth is offering again this summer. This interesting program deserves the highest recommendation. It is a great experience.

"In the 'Dope From the Duckboards,' SallyFrechette wrote of the program that she 'laughed the entire time but also worked hard.' Sally could afford to laugh, being an excellent French student. But my son Jonathan and I were called on 50 times in 60 minutes in nonstop drill and instruction, and we didn't laugh at all!

"After Hanover, we went to France and lived in a French home in Blois. The program was in four segments: Hanover, France, 3,000 miles of travel (Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France), and then the QEII home.

"The director of ALPS, John Rassias, is a delightful person, very creative and full of enthusiasm. His teaching assistants (Dartmouth students or Dartmouth graduates) were the nicest young people.

"The chicken we ordered in rural France was black in color when it reached the table. It may have been rabbit we'll never know. We made up for the laughter we didn't have in Hanover!"

I am embarrassed to discover that I missed Etty in reporting on last fall's mini-reunion. She was there for the football game and dropped in for a while at the Leverone picnic and one of the class dinners. The rest of the time she was visiting son Jeff, who has followed the footsteps of his dad, the late Ernie Hamilton, by going to work for Dartmouth. Jeff is now assistant men's tennis and squash coach at Dartmouth.

TAKE OFF! It's exhilarating 45th Reunion June 10-June 12, 1985

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