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Even though it's spring, there are still a couple of football items left in the pipeline. Ann and John McDonald were kind to inelude Edythe and me in the annual Ticonderoga, N.Y.-based group of Dartmouth and Princeton alumni who have had years of experience in making a wonderful social occasion out of a football weekend. Center of operations for the final game of the 1988 season was the Nassau Inn. Dartmouth was very much in the minority with only the George Singers '50 and Bob Underhills '49 in addition to the Andersons and McDonalds, but winning the main event put the whole affair into balance. Dick and Caroline McDonough were the only familiar faces in the class section at the stadium. When the rains came early in the third period, Edythe resumed her record of evacuation along with most of the other women in the stands. The local merchants did quite well that afternoon. John and I stiffed it out for the second half when the Big Green reversed the direction of the game entirely.

In early December Bill Thornton hosted a lunch at the Waldorf Astoria's famous Bull and Bear restaurant on the day of the annual Football Hall of Fame dinner. John M-cDonald Coach Buddy Teevens '79, and I joined Bill and several of his Connecticut friends for the occasion. I didn't make the evening festivities, but from all reports it was a great affair to honor college football student-athletes, one of whom was Paul Sorensen '89, a linebacker on Dartmouth's 1988 squad.

Jack Creamer came close to making Bill's lunch, but he reckoned that the instability of his early stage of recovery from hip replacement surgerv combined with horrendous mid-Manhattan holiday season traffic, exacerbated somewhat by the Gorbachev visit, was enough to keep him back in Darien. Jack consulted extensively before the operation with Fred Hill. Even used the same doctor and hospital. Fred is very pleased with his two "new, lightweight, state-of-the-art, titanium hips." Jack and Diane were planning to celebrate his recovery by spending the holidays in Europe with two of their married offspring-Coleen, who is based in London, and John Jr., who lives in Tokyo but flew to his wife's family home in France. Susie, the oldest, is married and lives in Norwalk Conn. Mike, the youngest, is a junior at Gettysburg College. Jack is quite active in his Darien-based consulting business, which is oriented to the automobile after market.

My final football note for this season concerns the Bears-Eagles playoff game in the fog. Picture Chuck and Alison Curtis all decked out in Eagles' green hats, sweaters, pins, etc., watching the game on TV in our living room in New London, N.H., with their eyes locked on jersey 91, their son Scott, an Eagles linebacker. The excitement and tension went from intense when you could see the game to confused when the fog rolled in. John Grocott and I marveled at Chuck's superman vision, picking up 91 on the screen when we weren't even sure the ball was in play. Must have been the loosener! Spending the afternoon indoors didn't cause us to miss any skiing because the snow gods never blessed us with any natural stuff during the holiday break. The skating was fine and Grocott still cuts a mean figure on the ice.

One promotion and one retirement to report: Craig Hausman moved up to vice president-employee relations, a new post at Ford Motor Co., where he had toiled since 1955. And Fred Hill, renewed physically with brand new hips, decided to give the head a rest and retired from IBM. New Canaan, Conn., will continue to be Fred's home.

On a sad note, Bob Jeck was one of the unfortunate passengers on Pan Am 103. An obituary will follow in a later issue.

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