1957

90 Tanglewylde Avenue Bronxville, NY 10708

It's almost 19 years since Bob Gebhardt was killed in a boating accident on Lake Tahoe, leaving his widow Salty to raise their three children. In 1984, shortly after returning from overseas assignments for Union Carbide, Don and Betsey Saunders visited Salty. They found her very ill, and only a few weeks later she died of cancer.

Don and other Dartmouth friends who took an interest in the Gebhardt children became aware that they knew little about their father's life, particularly the part shared with us in Hanover. To help fill that void, a dinner was given for Bobby, Peter, and Kathy Gebhardt on July 15 in a private dining room at Jack's in San Francisco. The gathering included Dave Clements, JimDalton, Tom Hall, Ron Roth, Don Saunders, Pete and Jody Wardle, Kurt Christiansen '58, and Mark Gates '5B.

Bob's old friends recounted events they hoped would enhance the children's appreciation of how talented, dynamic, and well regarded their father was. Stories were told about Bob's winning the NCAA downhill, his success in the construction business, his bigger-than-life approach to almost everything. A photograph of Bob as a teenage ski competitor was presented by Tom Hall to the children. Don said in his letter that the evening was a unique kind of get-together for the Dartmouth family, full of laughter tempered with sadness.

Also from California, Art and ElaineJohnson both confirm that they were married in June. Dave and Linda Clements, Jimand Diane Dalton, Tom and Cinda Ely,Don and Betsey Saunders, Pete and JodyWardle were there and are prepared to au- thenticate the contract. Artie promised to send a photo but now says he's in real trouble for misthreading the film and losing some great shots of the wedding, Yosemite, and the honeymoon. At least he got his dollar back when he went to pick up the prints.

Bill Gallagher says his letter to the Alumni Magazine was longer and funnier than the one-sentence zinger lifted out and printed in the summer issue. He returned from Saudi Arabia in June '85 and acquired a dermatology practice in Bangor, Maine. Fellow Bangor dermatologist Tom Watts provided some of the inspiration for the move. Life is good according to Bill, thanks to Penobscot Bay sailing and down-to-earth folks he's found in Maine.

Jay Greene, paleoanthropologist and song stylist, reports an excellent 4th of July picnic with wife Paulina and Paul andEmmy Ehrlich at the Mondavi winery in Napa Valley. Chardonnay evidently goes as well with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and fireworks as as it does with veal.

About ten years ago, Bill Edgerton turned his hobby into a business, becoming a leading antique dealer specializing in mechanical musical instruments. I heard members of his collection play at a jazz concert in New York and gave Bill a call. He recently sold the music business, regained his hobby, and liberated entrepreneurial talents for a major residential development he's creating out of one of the last old farms in southern Connecticut.