1943

When Betty and John Hyde returned in early spring from a month-long automobile trip to Almagordo, N.M., via New Orleans and back, about 6,000 miles, John lamented that he didn't have the names of classmates he might have contacted along the route.

I checked with adopted classmate NancyElliott, Dartmouth's director of special alumni services, and found that such a service wouldn't be too difficult to provide. Nancy agreed to send me a computerized list of '43s, grouped by geographical location. (Nancy herself took a three-week European tour in June with Margaret Feeney, wife of classmate Chuck Feeney.)

If you're contemplating a trip and would like to know who in the class lives along the route, give me a call, drop me a postcard or letter, and I'll send you names, addresses, and telephone numbers of classmates within a reasonable distance of your route. Airplane trips not included.

Via Bill Woythaler in Summit, N.J., comes word that Dr. Charles "Bud" Clarke has accelerated by a year his retirement from a medical partnership in Summit. He and Diane spent a couple of months in England visiting family.

Speaking of England, Claire and Andy Caffrey were there this spring, and so were Ann and Larry Noble. Electra and I were there about the same time, too.

And speaking of retirement, Bob McQueen, the class bequest chairman, retired December 31 as senior executive vice president of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Newark, N.J. That doesn't mean Bob's idle. He's still chairman of the board of trustees of St. Barnabas Hospital in nearby Livingston, N.J., continues his association with the New York Better Business Bureau, and sings with the University Glee Club in New York. Bob and Donna have a hillside house in Quechee, Vt., not far from Hanover, which they expect to be using more frequently. They also have a place in Florida. Your class officers were in Hanover in early May for a series of luncheons, dinners, and workshops on class activities. Class president Fred Lent arrived from Chicago, Bob Mc-Queen from Short Hills, N.J., and the rest of us from New Hampshire - treasurer BobClark from Keene, newsletter editor EddieO'Brien from New London, head agent FredStockwell and mini-reunion chairman DonTaylor from Grantham, while I drove up from Concord. The two-day gathering coincided with the completion of a videotape on Dartmouth freshmen and the College's computer program, titled "Little Green Apples," written, produced, and directed by none other than Eddie O'Brien.

Class participation in the 1985 Alumni Fund drive is lagging behind the six other classes in the Green Derby, according to the latest (April 11) figures from Hanover. We had only 18 percent participation and had achieved only 41 percent of the $120,000 goal. But Fred Stockwell and his band of enthusiastic agents had not yet launched their furious campaign. We lagged last year at the corresponding time and ended up first.

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