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July's record heat wave is about to break as we prepare copy for the September issue. We are still allowed 400 words for Class Notes (usually more than ample, alas!), but beginning in October the "older" classes will be held down to 250 words (the "newer" classes will also be reduced, of course), in accordance with planned editorial and format changes that promise to produce an exciting and better balanced "mix" of College and alumni news and features. We can still cover a lot in 250 words, if you send it along.

A May 26 note to Class Agent NateWhiteside from Alumni Fund Chairman Russell Boss '61 reads: "Congratulations!" Your class has surpassed its Alumni Fund dollar goal of $27,000 for 1987! Through your hard work and dedication you have greatly contributed to the 1987 Alumni Fund Goal of $12,000,000 and 68 percent participation." A richly deserved encomium, Nate!

From Laura Carter in Phoenix comes word of the arrival in February of her second great-grandson, Douglas Tyler Pate, who brings her total of "greats" to six. Such happy news should inspire others to send a tally of their "greats"—or perhaps even "great-greats."

Pat and I were thrilled to receive a graduation invitation from Amy Welch '87, Dick's granddaughter, about whom we reported in an earlier issue.

Together with Alice Weymouth, the Holbrooks had a pleasant June visit at the Hanover Inn with Harriet Miller Hight. With ties to two great classes, Harriet was about to attend a 1930-sponsored seminar in the Bema featuring famed author E. L. Doctorow. As usual, she bubbled with energy.

Health notes: As of this writing, Pat is making a slow but steady comeback from the ulcer attack that laid him low in the spring. Not his old lively self yet, but "getting around." Alice W., escaping the heat by making daily visits to the betatron in the sub-basement of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, threatens to title her forthcoming newsletter "Notes from the Underground." (Believe it when you see it, she adds.)

We report sadly the deaths.of three classmates: Russ Cotner, Steve Graves, and Stanley Rogers.

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