1934

Congratulations! and thank you all. The Alumni Fund drive for 1990 ended with '34 achieving an all-time Dartmouth 56th-year out record. We've given '35 another challenge. Bob Engelman and Stan Smoyer and their dedicated team deserve our firm gratitude.

While he was on a summer break in Maine, Bill Judd saw reference to a classmate in a local paper. Art and Midge Nissen are now great-grandparents the lad is named Bass Chadwick. Have any other great-grandchildren appeared? Someone told me Ed Marshall has two and I know Bill and Jane Daniells have Cassandra I met her.

Don't forget your Directory when you travel this fall. Going through Warrenton, Va., en route to North Carolina the signals clicked, and I found Molly Heston at home with the welcome mat out. When in Dayton, I connected with Dottie Chollar and she told me she is working now part-time for the Colony of Kettering Apartments where she lives.

Did anyone else see our late classmate, Alan Hewitt, in a starring role on TV this summer? Thanks to a call from Joy Dwyer I was alerted. Alan was the plaintiffs attorney in Fred McMurray's 1963 "SonofFlubber, " and had the key line in the film's climax.

As one who is still looking, I was attracted to a listing in the New York Times of the 100 best places to retire. Sponsored by Rand McNally, ratings of 131 places were based on six factors: money, climate, personal safety, services, housing, and leisure living. Checking the Directory for '34 residents, I determined that Dave and Betty Hawes were the winners Bloomington, Ind., rated #8. Next were Howard and Maggie Gussenhoven in Charleston, S.C., rated #12 . Then come Charlotte Layzell in Bellingham, Wash., #13; Gene and Marilyn Shea in St. Petersburg, Fla., #30; and Joe Schuldenfirei in Ft. Myers, Fla., #41. Florence Harris and Alice Orvis live in Tucson, #46. And that brings us to #47 yes, to Hanover, N.H.! Hooray! I'll remind you who those fortunate locals are when I continue from this point next month.

Enjoy a beautiful fall.

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