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Mini-reunion is upon us. Just days after you receive this magazine, we'll be meeting in Hanover Oct. 14—16, Dartmouth Night weekend. Come for the day Saturday if you can't come for the weekend. Dave Prewitt's plans call for Saturday dinner at the DOC house on Occom Pond. Let Dave know if you're coming. (His business phone is 215/751-0500.)

Our gala 50th birthday party will be in ... (drumroll) .. . Washington. Class president Vic Rich counted your mail ballots, and said the margin was just slightly in favor of Washington over Scottsdale. The total number of ballots suggests that West Coasters could have won this one—if enough folks had sent in ballots.

As of right now, we're looking at holding the birthday gala the first weekend in May, 1989, so block out those dates now. Though mid-summer would have been closer to the precise mid-point of our 50th year, vacation season precludes using one of those weekends. May is almost as nice. Even if you'll only be 48 or 49 during 1989, come anyway. So too if you're already 50, 51 or 52. We're marking our half-century mark as a class; it's not intended to replace individual 50th birthdays.

All of you who lived in the Fayerweathers: the class has just adopted Fayerweather Row as our official class dormitory group. That means we'll supply student leaders on the Row with a budget each year of about $1,200 that they can use for social events in that "cluster." (Cluster is a new Dartmouth buzz word—as connecting facilities are built to link groups of dormitories and allow joint social programming. Few dormitories are stand-alone any more.)

We've also decided on our admissions project. We'll be supporting a major effort to send Dartmouth faculty out to help in enrollment. Faculty members have long gone across the country to speak in various cities—but.usually to Dartmouth clubs. Now faculty members will be going out earlier in the year specifically to aid in the enrollment effort. That means another up-todate voice to talk about Dartmouth in addition to admissions officers, and may increase Dartmouth's chances, in the highly competitive world of admissions, of landing our first choice students.

Congratulations to the class agents on a fine effort this year, and thank you to all of you who gave. We raised $174,978, which was short of our $200,000 goal, but our goal was far and away the highest in our Green Derby group, and we're the smallest class in that group in total numbers. We ended up with 64.6 percent participation, just about at the college average of 65 percent.

Gerry Kaminsky passed along a recruiting brochure of Capitol American Life, where Dave Lazar is president. Capitol American Life is a Cleveland-based insurance company that boldly states it intends to have revenues of $1 billion by 1998. Lazar joined that company in 1976.

News Notes: Don O'Neill was elected to the board of managers of Beneficial Savings Bank, succeeding his father, Frank, who was on the board for 27 years. Since 1971, Don has been president of the Paper Manufacturers Cos., a family firm founded in 1905 .... Steve Bickel was appointed president and chief executive officer of the Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. of American General Corp. in Houston.

See you in Hanover.

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