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Class reunions in June saw attendance records broken, and nice weather for all. The campus was green, the woods dark green, the lawns, gardens, and College buildings neat and well cared for; even the fraternity houses, having low attendance in summer, looked orderly and cared forat least on the outside. One of my jobs is to preview the reunion setting each year to see what new experiences might be available to us for next year's 45th. Believe me, we'll see new dorms, construction completed on a Thayer School addition, and work started on more to Tuck School, and a new chem building. Plus an amazing new Medical Center complex south of town which will make way in a few years for the College to put the hospital space to use, north of Baker Library. Yet when reuners gather here they see a lot of the familiar. And so will you. Plan to be here June 10-13, 1991.

Bill Hallager mentioned to me recently he is retiring from his post-Texaco-retirement job of assistant to the president of the Loon Mountain Association in Lincoln, N.H., as of July 1.

Loon is the largest ski area in New Hampshire, and a planned expansion has been under way—and studied to deathsince about 1986. It presents a dilemma, because Bill, like me, is an environmentalist and has come to see how politically complex are the various studies of environmental impact, water uses, land use, water quality and availability, traffic needs, etc. Bill can probably now sit back and complain, but may not have time for that, since he and Jean are still involved in building and programming the Lincoln Cultural Center.

Joe Eisaman advises he has three Dartmouth alums on his advertising staff now. I think, Joe, it's high time you visited Hanover again, if you're to continue as our West Coast promotional agent.

Walter Peterson, president of Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, N.H., continues to mix athletics with academics. On May 1, Walter was honored by the New Hampshire chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. He was selected as the recipient of the Distinguished American Award. Walter continues to bring great things to his fine college and community.

Bob and Nancy Motions, in August, were en route after a stop-off in Ireland to a three-week tour of Russia. What a historic time to be in the Soviet Union. I hope, Bob, you'll write me your impressions of the current state of things in Russia: the women, sporting events, shopping, the ordinary and extraordinary things.

Alan and Merry Hall have spent the past five years renovating a 1790 home in Hopkinton, N.H., near St. Paul's School, where Alan lived and taught for thirty-something years. Alan produces newsletters, edits the school alumni magazine, and still teaches English (Tenth grade). He is raising funds and helping to administrate the Advanced Studies Program for talented New Hampshire students. Alan has five grandchildren who visit Hopkinton often.

Congratulations to Reuben Samuels, now vice president (structural), for Tishman Construction Company. Rube has been chairman of Crimmins Contracting Co. and president of Crimmins Construction, both New York firms in heavy construction. If it's tunnels you need, through rock, soil, or whatever, Rube has written the book.

See you soon.

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