1944

With the crumbling of Communism in the past six months, it's no wonder that Clint Gardner made the front page of the Valley News in White River Junction. Clint is the founder, in 1981, and president of Bridges for Peace, an organization aimed at establishing ties with the Soviet Union on a grassroots level, with exchanges of average citizens in a kind of "potluck diplomacy." With stakes now higher than anyone could have ever imagined, CEnt and his colleagues feel that bridges with glasnost are as important as ever.

A friendly billet from Tommy Douglas, out there in Illinois, reports on lots of retiring tennis and golf, and a diet drop of 20 pounds. "Another 20," he says, "and I could run again." Between ounces, Tommy says he sees Dan Donahue and Ralph Bogan around and about.

Nothing could be finer than a call from Carolina (well, Orlando, actually) from old roommie Bill Paine, who is still going strong in the real estate business, and he and his partners are now planning the development of a South Carolina hotel with two, count 'em two, 18-hole golf courses. Bill and his partners log lots of flyer miles among their interests in Long Island, Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Bill has three daughters and seven grandchildren.

Dick Lesser writes that he and wife Jessie last year charted a splendid 14,000 mile, 80- day auto trip around the U.S. and Canada. Not so dandy was a subsequent impacted tooth and hospital stay, but Dick says he didn't really mind giving up steak for softer lobster newburg. He also says they enjoy apartment living in Johnstown, N.Y., without the worries and work of house ownership.

Jack Jenness reports on a conversation with Bill McCarthy in the Detroit area. Bill graduated from Tuck School in 1948 and had a stint in foreign service, based in shabby old Paris, France. He switched to General Motors European operations, also based in shabby old Paris, France, and some years later was transferred back to Detroit in GM consolidation. He has been retired for two years, but keeps his hand in with some financial analysis for GM. And he still has a daughter in high school.

John Englehorn alerted me to the fact that his uncle, Wesley "Moose" Englehorn '14, Dartmouth's oldest living Mi-American football player, would be 100 years old on January 21. Dartmouth answered with appropriate letters and phone calls, and when I talked to him in February, Moose was still going strong, unhappy only in that the weather in Philadelphia was such that he couldn't get out for daily walks and bus rides. There's more about Moose at the beginning of Class Notes.

And speaking of January 21, Ralph G. Beaman had one of his many crossword puzzles in the Sunday New York Times of that date. Ralph hasn't stayed in touch with Dartmouth, so it's a puzzle as to where he is. Does anyone know?

Recent passings: Jack Riley's wife, Maureen, died just before Christmas, and AveClark, our only World War II flying ace, I believe, died of a stroke January 11. Our sympathies.

That's it. Blessings.

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