1955

1800 Valley Road Newton Square, PA 19073

There is no end of change from the class of'55.

Bob Garver has. retired from Newworld Bank in Boston after 26 years in the industry and has moved from Lincoln, Mass., to Hilton Head's Port Royal Plantation. He and Judy are getting their real estate agent licenses and taking up golf. As he says, "ready to enjoy the good life."

The Garvers are catching up with Peteand Sue Wheeler, who enjoy living in the land of sunshine, making their home at Ormand Beach, Fla. Pete went back to Stetson University, graduating in August of 1984 with a master of education in counseling. Now he's working with adolescent substance abusers.

Stan Brakhage continues to make films and teach film history at the University of Colorado. He just completed a handpainted film six years in the making. It came to eight minutes in length, is based on Dante's The Divine Comedy, and is titled "The Dante Quartet." It premiered in September in Lawrence, Kans., at the Riverside Festival, after being shown at Dartmouth as work-in-progress in January of this year. Otherwise, Stan is working on the second part of a series of films based on the Faust legend. He said the last classmate he saw was Jerry Samuelson, whose football handshake and backslap are as strong as ever.

Jerry Bernstein, who practices in New York City and lives in Larchmont, continues to specialize in diabetes and his work on national committees and programs. Jerry's daughter Carrie graduated from Dartmouth in 1984 and is in her last year at Yale architecture school, while son Cliff '89 has been rowing with the crew just like his dad. But Jerry indicates that his most important change is that he has been running for two years and was in his first 10K run this past spring.

From Longmeadow, Mass., Bill Foggle, while still busy with real estate development took time off to meet his son John '79 in Europe after John's summer fellowship in oncology at St. Bart's Hospital in London. Bill, Lynn, and John went ballooning in Beaune, -France, on a Bombard (as in Buddy Bombard) balloon. They sent a "wah-hoo-wah" greeting to Buddy, who was in Switzerland at the time. It's going to be a good year, for their daughter Andrea will be married the day after Christmas.

Which brings us to Elliott Hershey of Boston, N.H., who, with five children, scheduled oldest daughter Gail for marriage in September and middle daughter Deborah for marriage in January. (Or perhaps they did the scheduling and Elliott will only help make it happen.) The youngest Hershey, Samantha, is a senior at Wheaton. In February, the Hersheys were presented with a grandson to match their granddaughter. (This may be only the beginning.)

And for all those who might forget what the Hanover Plain was like, we are encouraged to buy Jud Hale's new book TheEducation of a Yankee. As the ad copy says, it is "written with charm, wit, and candor ... these memoirs are full of marvelous anecdotes and fascinating experiences... hellraising at Dartmouth College (can that be?)... taking over as editor at age 37 (of Yankee magazine)."