1963

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This was not a normal homecoming. My full platter began Thursday with a meeting of the Alumni Magazine editorial board, followed by a 25th Reunion planning meeting on Friday, and the annual class executive committee on Saturday. So I forsook congested Route 91 and took the Eastern Airlines commuter flight from New York's LaGuardia for the first time. At $144 roundtrip it's the best deal in town. The views of New England are breathtaking, with lush forest and gentle villages augmenting a lazy, sauntering Connecticut River.

Putting the finishing touches on plans for a great 25th Reunion, June 16-19, were Bruce Nichols chairman, Bill Courtney, reunion giving-head agent, Bill Breetz, catering, Marty Bowne, treasurer, DaveSchaefer, publicity, John Lehman, entertainment, Al Davies, awards, and yours truly, events.

If everything goes right we'll be dancing and singing to the rhythms of Danny and the Juniors, and a new hot band, the Heartbreakers. And there will be two opportunities to meet James O. Freedman, the new president of Dartmouth, in his garden, and at the class dinner.

Steve Lister, is planning to come in from Portugal for the event. Michael Moriarty, actor, and now poet and composer, has requested reunion information. Jim McKeon, who runs a publishing rep company in Connecticut, will be there, as will Kirk Vernon, of Leawood, Kans., and Bob Berenbroick, a lawyer in New Jersey.

Jerry Uram, a New York lawyer, will be there in June with his wife, Susan, and children Michael 19, and Alison 16.

The reunion meeting was no sooner over than I rushed over to the Hanover Inn bar to have a beer (for the sake of good old Dartmouth) with Bill Breetz and Bruce andPhyllis Coggeshall, of Portland, Maine. And then, clutching a double burger and orange drink, it was off to Lebanon street to join the class fire engine and give out candy-on the way to Dartmouth Night festivities where Bill King and the undefeated 1962 football team would be honored. DickCrane, Len Waldbaum, and Don Mc-Kinnon, were among the '63 marchers.

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at the class executive committee meeting the next morning were Ted Suess, Bob Bysshe, JohnLehman, Bruce Nichols, Bill Russell, BruceCoggeshall, Bill Courtney, Al Davies, PeteRotch, Marty Bowne, and Bruce Baggaley.Dave Schaefer, el presidente, presided.

Lunch at the Leverone Field House was appropriately with another former football star, Don McKinnon, wife Nancy, and Andrew 18, of New York (Don Jr. is at Bard College), and Bill and Scottie King, and Susie '91 of Virginia. Will is in the army in Korea.

A big crowd at the class dinner following the game included: George and Mary Sullivan, and Josh '90 of Memphis, Bob andMary Kay Tucker, Severna Park, Md., BobBaker and wife, Bags Bergman, George andKitsey Scott, Jeff Galper and wife, and the Neil Duprey family.