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By now you know via '39 Out that almost 30 classmates made the mini-re- union this past September, not a bad showing when considering it was a second SU-year gathering in Hanover. And you have also been apprised that our class artist, Dick Brooks, has had a temporary setback via a stroke, the results of which he is working hard to overcome.

Proof of our readership comes via Moreau Brown from the World Series area. We quote: "I enjoyed your September column and note especially Bruce Learned's sojourn on Swan Island. As most '39ers know, they are located northeast of Honduras, north of Caratasca Cays, and northwest of Rosalind Bank in the western Caribbean Sea. I am told that Eliot Cooke's brother, Ron, runs a pizza parlor on one of the islands."

Ev Woodman writes that he had a fourth hip replacement on August 9, an eight-hour job which became complicated by infection after ten days' recuperation. He submitted to round-the-clock antibiotics in the New London, N.H., hospital and was due for release back to action in early October.

Hass Warrener opted to miss the mini for a two-week barge cruise on the Canal du Midi, between Toulouse and Bezier. He says that he and Mary Jane still enjoy pleasant memories of the "famous fifty."

Perhaps some of you noted in the September 18 Dartmouth Currents that a key- note speech was delivered by one Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature at Cornell University, at Convocation in Thompson Arena. He spoke with fondness of his mentor, Charles T.Davis, one of the few black Dartmouth students of his generation to earn Phi Beta Kappa status.

Herb and Ethel Hirschland visited with Joan Monahon in early September, at Joan's home in Kennebunk, Me. Herb and Dick were roomies at College. We didn't ask the Hirschlands if they spotted the President, who we believe was in residence around then.

Although we are sending the following along to Davey for green publication we are covering the bases by including the following note from Bill Buckley herewith. "Last winter my wife and I signed up for the Alumni College Abroad offering, 'Journey of the Czars,' departing August 5. Because of illness in July we had to cancel. If any '39ers (or other alumni reading this) took the trip I would very much like to correspond with them." Bill's address is 47 Hem- lock Street, Needham, MA 01291.

Time has swung around to such a degree that carols are around the corner (if not here) and old Santa is getting ready for his annual trip. Time for us to wish one and all the Merriest of Christmases, with a Happy 1990 to follow.

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