1935

6680 Williamson Drive NE Atlanta, GA 30328

Once again, thanks to Uncle Reg and the Big Green Eyeshade Man, a goodly bunch of green cards and a welcome change!

Interesting note from Joe Sholkin, who by now has had a visit from a Professor Mohapata of New Delhi, "a senator M.P. and distinguished historian," about to embark on a lecture tour of nearby colleges. After the professor, a Father Molina from Managua (his speech at Dartmouth last year sparked a standing ovation) whom Joe will accompany on a fund-raising tour of Scandinavia for a Nicaraguan war orphanage. (Ed. note feel free to send donations to Joe at P.O. Box 307,

Newton Highlands, MA 02161). After Scandinavia, off to Palm Beach and then Nicaragua. Joe gets around!

Bill Gahagan and partner lost their finals match in the National Indoors to Gardner Mulloy and partner, having won the event two years ago "when Mulloy was much younger!" Bill hits the 75 bracket next year and plans to go all the way.

Link Washburn's wife, Tahoe, reports Link busy with his work on the Presidential Commission for Arctic Research. They had earlier commenced three months of fieldwork at Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island, N.W.T., on June 7, starting their "summer" with two feet of snow on the level, plus huge drifts everywhere, and ending it with a blizzard in August!

Sam Milesky and Don Hagerman both comment most favorably on Fiona Bayly's letter, reprinted in the August Tear Bag: "Those scholarship kids need us!" and "When times are rough the College needs alumni support even more!" Sam tried unsuccessfully to contact Hank Muller's son in Madison to tell him how much he had enjoyed his "Dear Folks" story about Hank's college years in the March AlumniMagazine. Don puts in a plug for more '35 participation in Don Radasch's Sponsor Program.

Maurie Rapf, now emeritus director of film studies, is still enjoying teaching part-time two classes this year, one next (he notes that Arthur Mayer, his predecessor, continued teaching till he was 91 "emulating him may be too much to hope for"); and Willard Heckel reports that he is now full professor emeritus at Rutgers Law School and living at a retirement center in Maplewood.

On the travel front, Perry and DeeWachtel have by now enjoyed a cruise on the QE2, a 50th wedding anniversary gift from their children (the trip, not the QE2). Reporting for Joe Waters, his pretty wife Onalene reports a peripatetic winter, including a ski trip to Vail, a Florida encounter with the Dartmouth Aires, and cocktails at Bucks Weil's brother's home in Montgomery, Ala. After her high school reunion in D.C., she will be off in November for Caneel Bay "with my POSSLQ." And Lou Hawkins, after 4,662 miles of transcontinental travel with her 21-year-old grandson, is ready to try again by a different route "Every American should do it!"

News from the A&O (Accidents and Operations) contingent is on the whole heartening. Charlie Griffith's year-old ankle injury is mending, though slowly; the loss of his wife, Sheila, has been the real hurt in his life. At this writing, FrankSpecht's Edie was recuperating from surgery at Siesta Key, where Frank expected to see a lot of the local '35s. He had earlier enjoyed lunch with Jim Berkey, at which they "solved all the world and Dartmouth problems." Corinne Naramore, acknowledging a get-well card sent from our mini-reunion, advises she is "finally making progress" after throat surgery.

A long letter from Jim Oughton tells of four daughters, one of whom died tragically in a bomb explosion in New York in 1970. The other three are all happily married, but one is now in the difficult situation of tending her spouse, Phil Callahan, through a brain damage rehabilitation program in Boston after a terrible accident last year. All you who pray, pray for him and her! Jim has had no easy time himself, having recently had open heart surgery, from which he is now "firmly on the road to recovery." Since his Dartmouth days, Jim has been involved in real estate activities, mostly agricultural, along with"some bank responsibilities and other miscellaneous activities" in his hometown, Dwight, Ill.

Having used up my allotted space, I will leave an account of the September mini-reunion to our Tear Bag dynamic duo (they do a better job anyway), except to say that my new bride found it just as heartwarming and delightful as I told her it would be. I close with a strong second to Hagerman's plug for more '35 participation in Don Radasch's Athletic Sponsor Program. We owe Don!

Peace and love and a Merry Christmas to you all.