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At the end of a long hot summer, vegetable vines and news tend to dry up. Fortunately, however, Dartmouth is ever Green. New ideas, programs, and plans are always underway. To quote our illustrious class president, Phil Kron,"Rick Roesch, as reunion chairman, is moving with a full head of steam." This, of course, alludes to our 30th Reunion, scheduled forjune 11-14,1990. Reserve the dates and make the effort to reunite with class- mates. Coming together transcends all other College-related feelings.

Reunions divisible by five tend to carry higher-than-normal financial commitments to the Alumni Fund. After surpassing giving goals for the past several years, MartyLower, has agreed to be our reunion giving chairman. Our tentative goal is $600,000. Dick Davidson has agreed to move up to head class agent. We will all be hearing from them in the near future!

Dartmouth works because its alumni are organized a truism. At the class level, at least our class, the organization is called the executive committee. It is not an exclusive group. Officers and members serve for five- year terms which coincide with the aforementioned reunions divisible by five. Only former class presidents continue to serve as ex-officio members. Thus, every five years offers the opportunity for anyone in the class to serve. The moral of the story is simple. If you harbor any desire to get involved in things Dartmouth, speak up. We are looking for volunteers willing to serve the class and College from 1990 to 1995.

In September 1985, shortly after editing our 25th Reunion yearbook, Musings, I got a bug to write a book. The only thing I knew anything about was scuba diving so I took my idea to Tom Ettinger at Sports Illustrated Enterprises. He both encouraged and assisted me in developing the concept and opening publishers' doors. He also cautioned that the publishing industry moved at an incredibly slow pace. I doubted the warning. After all, researching and writing about the world's best scuba diving sites couldn't take more than a year or so. I was certain, but Tom was right.

In October 1989, my book UnderwaterParadise, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., reached the bookstores. With the assistance of eight of the world's best under-water photographers, we put together 192 pages of occasionally irreverent words about people and places in the world, together with 163 color photographs of creatures ferocious to fragile, gigantic to gentle, unsightly to exquisite. If you've ever wondered about places like the Great Barrier Reef, Red Sea, Micronesia, Fiji, Sea of Cortez, Caribbean Sea, or Papua New Guinea, you will be sated by this book. Furthermore, if you want me to do my part in meeting Marty" $600,000 Reunion giving goal, buy copies for all those people on your Christmas list who already nave everything—except a copy of Underwater Paradise.

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