1951

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What is it about monthly subscriptions? Each month they seem to arrive a week too soon! And each time the DAM comes, I know I have only a few days to gather your missives and my thoughts for the next column. Isn't life supposed to slow down as one approaches 60? Hah!

My pleas for news are paying off. A1 Crehan, who left us after our freshman year to attend West Point, has written a long and fascinating letter from which I may excerpt passages for the next six columns. Now retired from the Air Force, where he was a fighter pilot, and living in Chester, N.Y., A1 writes that he still has strong attachments to Dartmouth. He recalls living in 413 Gile Hall with Pete Smart and Bob Tomfohrde, and believes "the great camaraderie that I became part of so quickly equals and in some ways surpasses bonds that I later made at West Point and the Air Force." A1 closes his letter this way: "It would be fun to talk with some of my liberal friends from D." Al, mark down June 1991 on your calendar right now as the time to see you at our 40th Reunion in Hanover.

Dartmouth, Duke, and Detroit all figure prominently in the past, present, and future of Ed Isbey. Ed was born in Detroit, as was his son Ed III, who graduated from Duke University, as did their partner in the Asheville Eye Medical and Surgical Associates, Dr. Thomas Beardsley, who interned at Mary Hitchcock in Hanover after graduating from Duke Medical School. Our Ed graduated from Wayne State Medical and took his residency at Kresge Eye Institute in Detroit; Ed III earned his medical degrees at the Universities of North Carolina and Georgia. (Are you following this?) Anyhow, the three of them have joined in an ophthalmological practice in Asheville, N.C. (Ed, if I haven't got this right, I hope you will see your way clear to drop me a line and set me straight.)

And here's the latest on Pete Henderson's varied career: he is now a named member of Jannotta, Bray, Henderson & Associates, one of the nation's leading human resouces consulting and career counseling firms in Chicago.

I have reported to you some months ago that John Hoskins is the Food and Agricultural Organization rep in Bangladesh for the UN. This January he wrote to inform us that "our job of helping to increase agricultural production in a small country with 108 million people is being made even more difficult by the near exhaustion of FAO funds, a condition that results from the fact that the FAO's largest contributor, the United States, has refused to pay its fair share to FAO and is now over a year-and- a-half in arrears. Since 20 percent of FAO's funds normally come from the U.S., you can see that for Bangladesh this is a additional disaster to that which the 1987 floods have already inflicted upon this impoverished country." His letter is a plea for help from any of you who wish to contact your senators and congressmen about this issue.

TRIVIAL PURSUIT: What do the following trios have in common? Joe Holton, HapPerson, Ed Post; Wally Bush, Bob McCraney, Bill MacFadden; Bob Byall, FrankUlrichs, Art Worden. Keep in touch.