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For lack of space I didn't mention last September's postcard from the ever-wandering Jacobses, from Singapore on their transworld tour, which I reported in October. Now (February 4) I've received a card postmarked January 20 at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, picturing the World Discoverer nosing through an ice floe. Where next?

One of our late distinguished classmates became additionally distinguished in death by having two obituaries published in the Alumni Magazine, an unheard-of duplication. One written by our peerless necrologist, Gar Dalglish, appeared in March 1987. A second somehow emerged among the '32s in the Summer 1987 issue. The deceased was Alan Schumaker, whose daughter prepared the second one. You'll agree its duplication couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Ernie Latham's son Ernie Jr. '60, stationed previously at our Bucharest embassy, has been transferred to Athens. Also he has just received a Ph.D. in literature, for which he produced a 209-page thesis on Oliver Wendell Holmes.

For half a century or so Jere Annis has been largely unresponsive to alumni questionnaires. Our 1980 class directory said "current address unknown," and he wasn't even listed in the March 1985 directory. Consequently I was pleasantly surprised to find the following letter to the editor in the January 13 Dartmouth Review: "Congratulations! Yours is an oustanding effort toward recapturing the dignity, the respect, the tradition, and the academic excellence of a once proud and revered institution . . . Sincerely, J.W. Annis." Welcome back, Jere.

A sign of the times? The growth of fundraising activities in Blunt Alumni Center has pushed the Alumni Magazine off the end of the bench. The whole DAM staff has moved to the old Wheelock House, which in our day housed the Howe Library, next to the DKE house, which is now a parking lot.

Greetings.