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The class has had two members receive academic awards at the conclusion of the recent academic year. Bill Green received a doctor of laws degree from Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, N.H., and Henry Glovsky a bachelor of fine arts degree, the first honorary degree awarded by Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts. Bill is the senior partner in the law firm Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green in Manchester, N.H., where he has had a distinguished career including a stint as attorney general of the state. Henry was instrumental in the founding of Montserrat College, having assisted in the founding of the North Shore Music Theatre as a private enterprise in 1954. When it became the non-profit North Shore Community Arts Foundation in 1961 he became its president. During his tenure he presided over the founding of the Montserrat School of Visual Art and was influential in its development into a fouryear degree-granting college.

Since the changing of the return address on the green cards, we have received a bountiful harvest from Whit Cushing. We learned that Whit, along with expressing some reservations about President Freedman, admits proudly to having some Abenaki or Iroquois blood his license, we presume, to champion the cause of the lost Indian symbol. But Whit also admits to being directly related to Lt. Howard Cushing, a great Indian fighter under General Crook, who was ambushed and killed by Indian Chief Nino Cochise and tribe near Tombstone, Ariz., in 1871. Whit also points out that there is a David C. Shilling award given annually by Air Force Magazine for the "most outstanding contribution in the field of flight." Whit said he approached the College with the suggestion of a campus plaque to the memory of 1939's WW II ace flyer, but was turned down. And finally, he sends along an ad in Vermont Life which refers to a special Vermont bicentennial edition of the book, "Lake Champlain: Key to Liberty," written by the late Ralph Nading Hill, and available for the first time in a handsome paperbound edition. He recommends the reading of all of Zeke's books.

Bert MacManniS has been honored by being chosen to serve on the executive committee of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, the big brother of the Alumni Council.

Bob and Corky Davidson, who are alays on the move, spent some time in Boulder, Colo., in the latter part of May, getting to know their 11th grandchild, Alexandra Beth. No telling what ground they have covered since that time.

We conclude with some address changes you might wish to note: Dave Lilly can be reached most easily at his home at 18 Summit Court, St. Paul, MN 55102. The Rev. Bob Thomas, who will be with us in Charlotte, has moved to Constitution Court, G-4, the Village at Linwood, Linwood, NJ 08221. And Jim Powers is now at 1393 Ocean Boulevard, Rye, NH 03870. We spent a dandy evening in July with Jim, the Dusty Rohdes, and Betsy Wyman-Emmons, now in residence in Portsmouth, N.H.

Until October...

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