1940

Dear Class:

Last call to all you forgetful putter-offers who still haven't sent in your questionnaires. All we need are: your name, spouse name, nicknames if any, principal address and phone, alternate address, phone and dates you are there, retired or active, retired and active in what. Get with it or no TV tonight!

A very pleasant visit with Ben and GeneBacon over the Labor Day weekend. They were working their way north to Maine, seeking a spot for next summer, then returning to Hanover for the mini-reunion. They reported seeing Chet and Ruthe Berry on the Berry's visit to Sanibel. Also the fact that Bob and Didi Gensel zipped off to China in mid-August.

News update award of the month goes to Dick Seidman for the following: "A couple of things have happened in my life since I last wrote a trip to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and the Berkshire Scenic Railway. Sonya and I have just returned from a threeweek trip, Moscow-Irkutsk via the Trans-Siberian Express, to Ulan Bator via the Trans-Mongolian Railway, then a flight to the Gobi. (A high point in Dick's life-long interest in trains. Ed.) Sonya and I also work as volunteers on the Berkshire Scenic Railway in Lee, Mass. Hopefully, I will be operating the locomotive next summer. As a child, I used to play with toy trains, now I am playing with the real trains! Perhaps I am not aging, but going in the opposite direction. Cordially," Thank you, Dick.

Last spring I signed up for a college publication called Common Sense. The editors/writers attempt to present both sides of the many questions on the campus. This may not make for thrilling reading, but I find it most informative and worthwhile.

I am sorry to report that we have lost four classmates since April: Ken Arwe, PhilDostal, Ted Lewitt, and Jack (John M.)McDonald. Our sympathies go to the families and friends of these sorely missed classmates. An obituary appeared in the September issue for Ken Arwe. Obituaries for the others will appear in this or a subsequent issue.

Bud Hewitt checked in from Hillside, N.J., reporting that the Dartmouth librarians have been most appreciative of the 73 cartons of books and papers sent to them after the death of Bud's brother Alan '34, a well-known performer and persona in the arts. Similarly a $100,000 grant to the Williams/Watson Performance Arts Endowment. Bud continues "... had a fine reunion with Professor Chester Garrison, one of my Dartmouth Players friends. Chet is now retired from the Oregon State English department. I keep happily busy on family portfolio management, town committees, and the local library, where I am board secretary. Hope to see more of Dartmouth and other places-Bud."

Just before press time I received interesting information from Dick Babcock and also from "Jay" Deane McGowan who has dropped the Jay and is known as Deane to friends and readers of his sports column in the New York Times. We hope to have more on both of these '40s in upcoming profiles to be printed as space permits. That's it for now and remember to send Dick your questionnaire for Christmas!

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