1931

President Ori Hobbs sends in the program for the "Dartmouth at Annapolis" weekend next October 3-4, which is to be a gala occasion. It opens with a Maryland seafood dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baltimore on Friday night. A charter boat will leave for Annapolis Saturday morning, with breakfast served aboard. There will be a Dartmouth tent for luncheon at the stadium. The boat will return everyone to Baltimore after the game, with dinner served aboard. Rooms are being held in Dartmouth's name at the Hyatt and Baltimore Sheraton, but early reservations are urged. In addition to the Hobbses, Hank and Rose McCarthy are already signed up.

George Nickum has had this report from Ned Campbell. Ned's wife, Alice, died three years ago, and last year he married Winnie Campbell (no relation). Ned retired from his advertising specialties business the first of the year, and he and Winnie intend to spend six months of the year at their Pittsburgh home and six months in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Their children and spouses threw a grand 50th wedding anniversary party for Bill and Betty Steck last November 9. It featured a reprise of all the highlights of their lives from the day they met, with help from close and old friends. A week later there was another party - for Bill's 76th birthday. They have been wintering in Delray. Granddaughter Kristen '88 is studying in Germany for a term.

Bill Grant writes from Denver that John Nelson is having some eye trouble but otherwise doing well and that Bill and Chub Hetfield are toying with the idea of meeting at a "fat farm" in Mexico this very month.

Items from Russ Beckwith on life at Tequesta, Fla.: "slow motion tennis-golf handicap 22, play with Ozzie Bliss- welcomed eighth grandchild, Bill-work for Presbyterian church-caught snook from my river boat-Betty runs an eighttable bridge group and redesigned our clubhouse kitchen."

The Christmas "card" from Fred andRuth Slaughter featured 19 pictures of their friends and good times in 1985 in Arizona, California, Wisconsin, and their home base in La Grange, Ill.

Jim and Ruth Rice had a month's sojourn in Europe last summer, covering a week on a Greek isle, a week in Athens, and two weeks driving through West Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxemburg, and Belgium, mostly on back roads. Then home to Seattle, where they are planning to make the 55th.

The Canadian Rockies and Northwest U.S. were the travel terrain for Al andJoan Sutton last fall. Called it a wonderful trip. Back home in Rhinebeck, N.Y., Al was counting on playing golf 'til the snow flew, when he wrote.

Out of North Naples, Fla., Bernie andBetty Boyle are keeping busy with home gardening chores, and Bernie keeps trying to spot football talent for Dartmouth but finds the competition very tough.

Both Red and Zoe Gristede have been having more than their share of physical problems, but Red is working with a travel agency in spurts and putting in time and efforts for anticrime organizations in New York City, such as Junior Black Belt and the Police Auxiliary.

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