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This is one of several beautiful New Hampshire days, of this early summer. Gardening is well along, our iris is in full bloom, and the many varied light-to-dark greens of the woods, always nearby, reflect sun splashes against a blue sky. I am reminded of the similarity of garden making, tending, and finally harvesting, to some of our own class reunion procedures.

There is a time for planting of ideas and initial plans, the framework of a happy reunion. That would be now the planning for our 45th—June 10-13, 1991. We share the time with '45 and '46. Our class has been assigned to the recently renovated Russell Sage-Butterfield dorm area. That's at the head of Tuck Drive on the right, where a large green and white sign recently proclaimed "We're '59 and we're fine!"

Part of my "gardening" for our reunion is to visit the campus, reunion week, to gather new ideas, exciting locations, innovative twists. There are new places to eat, inside and outside, there are new class areas, and exhibit areas for us to see and experience. The Dartmouth campus has grown since we spent all our time there, but the colors, the greens, blues, and sun splashes are the same, against the rising spires of Baker and Dartmouth Hall.

Plan now to be a part of Dartmouth College next June. By way of your own "gardening," drop me a line on your thoughts and hopes on returning for a few days. What topics would you like to cover in a seminar or discussion? What class events do you remember most over the years? And since we'll be reading this column in September 1990, plan to attend the fall mini-reunionit's October 12 and 13, the Yale game, with '47 rooms at Norwich Inn first-come, firstserved (802/649-1143).

Here's some news items, and keep those cards and letters coming.

No news of Bob Kirsch, but a full-color ad for "distinctive catering" Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill. Bob has written several times in die past, proudly, of his wife's great success in her field.

Norm Sissman, in December 1989 was appointed to the consulting medical staff at the Medical Center in Princeton. He is a pediatrician specializing in pediatric cardiology, and is on the staff of the University of Medicine and Dentistry Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center.

Dr. George Cohn writes that in March 1990 he became a fellow in Morse College at Yale. I'd like to add more about that, specific to duties, but I'll have to "shrink" from that. George did add that his daughter presented his third grandchild this spring.

As an engineer, I can report that the Thayer School of Engineering addition is complete, as is the new state-of-the-art solid state lab designed and installed by your writer over the past one and one-half years. The room is performing as planned and desired, as a clean room, and soon will be equipped with high-tech lab equipment for R& D on semi-conductor wafer processing. See you soon.

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