1963

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The list of yesses is too long to enumerate here; in fact my normally laid back fax mahine is still giddy with the roster submitted by 25th Reunion chairman Bruce Nichols, attesting to the possibility that the class that broke the record for the number of entering freshmen in the fall of 1959 may do it again in the late spring of 1988, for the 25th Reunion, to be precise, June 16-19. The record is 300 alumni, says Bruce. We've got 250 to 260 positive responses. What do you say, guys? Let's give them one they'll remember.

The list is too long to enumerate but some of those frolicking on the green and partaking of the Wheelockian fare might be Richard Ahlstrand, Larry Chapman, Kylius Jones, Gary Lange, Mike Letis, AllanMarch, Dan Matyola, Paul McCarthy,Marty Mintz, and Ed Guthrie.

I got a note from John Bell who is competing with Dick Enholm for the title of sunglass king. John is vice president-operations for Classic Sunglasses, a Barrington, 111.-based wholesale distributor. John ran into Dick, vice president-operations for Foster-Grant, at where else but the Sunglass Association of America annual meeting in Bermuda. John's daughter Tammy will graduate this year from Bucknell and his son David is a sophomore at Washington and Jefferson in Washington, Pa. John's twin brother James J. Bell (got to keep the Bells, particularly twin Bells, straight) is remarried and living in Oneonta, N. Y. He has two daughters in college and another in high school. John's wife Carol is a buyer and looking for a good line of imported sunglasses, if you know of any.

The Bells plan to be at the reunion for the great family fun. Imagine circus performers and a country band roaming the picnic grounds entertaining '63 children of all ages; sporting events for everyone including tennis and golf tournaments, running races, and a special schedule for the kids, which you should have received.

Roger Adelman, Lou Gerstner, and ErnieTorres hope to make it. Roger, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted John W. Hinckley for the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1982, showed up recently at a party in Washington to promote Thumbs Up, the biography of James S. Brady, the White House press secretary who was shot and seriously wounded in the same incident. Lou, president of American Express, recently discussed in The New York Times his company's Academy of Finance, a high school program that permits kids to get a headstart in studying finance and work on Wall Street. And thanks to Seth Besse '27, a New Bedford, Mass., resident and Dartmouth watcher, we learn that Ernie Torres has been in fact sworn in as the 20th person to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

Ken Meyer of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, will take time off from his position as geography officer in the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation to be in Hanover in June. See you there too.