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Writing this in midsummer, I should remember that before it's published I will have seen many of you in Woodstock. So, is it newsworthy hat yesterday I talked to Gene Magenau, whom I fully expect to see there? Anyway, it was a pleasure, especially to hear that Sally is doing well and that the rotator cuff now lets Gene play some tennis. My Summer column suggested that this would be a good time for Ted Wolf to take him on, so let Ted be warned. Ted, however, says he's been practicing with "a tall slender girl built like Diana the Huntress." He'd better keep his eye on the ball.

Hot off the press, Dave Latham reports in Dartmouth Medicine, the DMS quarterly, that he and Harriet visited Florida last winter instead of Arizona, and in Sarasota they encountered Boof Perkins, Ave Gould, BobChittim, Fran Horn, Charlie Rauch, and Bob Blanchard.

As Charlie Widmayer and I share a June 4 birthday, the fact that my birthday lasted less that 14 hours might qualify as class news. I haven't mentioned China, an oversight I should remedy, but on June 4, 1991, I (with 350 others) was airborne, westbound, and crossed the 180th meridian into June 5 at 1:53 p.m. Having deprived me of ten birthday hours, Northwest Orient compensated with a birthday cake and a song by the cabin crew, in my mind better PR than the frequent-flyer mileage I was accumulating.

Among Dartmouth's football awards, there is the Lester D. Godwin Award, "presented to the senior football squad member who, through extraordinary perseverance, has risen above personal disadvantage to contribute measurably to the team."

If you missed it, this is quoted from Dartmouth Football 1991, an 80-page, slickly illustrated encyclopedia of Dartmouth's football history and prospects. You like trivia? Like who ran the fewest plays ever in a game against Dartmouth? Pennsylvania, 31, in 1962. It also gained the fewest yards: minus 4. Yea, Dartmouth won, 17-0.

Having mentioned die Mag's obituary backlog in my September column (written in July), I now congratulate capable Alumni News Editor Heather Killebrew for cramming 57 obits into the Summer issue.

Robert M. Marr, 318 Los Rincones, Green Valley, AZ 85614-2937