1944

Lovejoy Hill Cornish Flat, NH 03746

There's no argument on how, in a reunion year, you start and finish a class notes column. You start by reminding 630 Classmates (give or take) that our 45th Reunion is just a couple of jumps away—June 1316, to be exact—and you urge all those stalwarts to give their grandchildren back to their kids and have the neighbors water the plants and put Lassie and Spot in the kennel for a bit, and set their compasses on the Ledyard 3ridge.

Reunion chairman Ezz Hale has a preliminary list of those coming (and some still debating] and it looks as though we'll have at least 100 people at our opening ceremony. Wnat the heck, why not make it 400? You've received a second mailing by now: dig it out of the desk or off the refrigerator door and get it back to Dave Eckels, reunion treasurer in Hanover.

Incidertally, Ezz Hale is building a second hone near Lake Placid and guess who's th( architect and builder? Mo Distin, of course Ezz's kids have already dubbed the place Taj Ma-Hale.

On a sightly smaller scale, New Orleansians Buc and Nancy Troxell are dickering for a cottage in western North Carolina, a place to leaf the summer heat in July and August.

The wad is that Joe Vancisin's intake last Thanksgiving was more of a take out, which is to say that he had his appendix out. At his age!

Also last November, in Taunton, Mass., Harry carey received the "Silver Beaver Award," which is scouting's highest recognition on a council level for outstanding volunteer service to youth. Harry was cited for his 2( years of intensive scouting service, including continued tenure as a member of tie executive board, member of special council committees, council vice president council president, and currently council france chairman.

And alio under the knife was Bob Hyde in Maine, troubled with an aneurysm. He said he cane through an operation in good shape, is looking forward to some Florida sun by wiy of recuperating, and to reunion in June.

A nice note last June from Anne Eldridge '87, daughter of Carl Eldridge who died in 1983. "I am doing a United Nations internship this summer and then I leave for a sixmonth internship in India with the Overseas Development Network. My time will be divided between two different Indian development agencies, one in Orissa and the other in Madras. I originally applied to law school, but decided to take a year off first to pursue the experience in India."

So. As Oliver Goldsmith was wont to say: "I love everything that's old—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." There will be all that and more at our 45th Reunion, June 13-16, in Hanover.

Alas, three who won't be with us: JimTillson died January 25 in San Antonio, Tex.; Bob "Whitey" Myers died February 11 in Haines City, Fla.; and Allen Barrett died on February 13. Our sympathies.

That's it. Blessings.

'44, jeore and after. Old roomies and footballers, Rg Antaya and George Recke, shwi 43 years apart. At left, Rog and George, at right, George and Rog—or could you fell?

DARTMOUTH 1944'S 45TH REUNION • 13 TO 16 JUNE 1988 (4AIN 88 DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE! DOUBLE YOUR FUN!