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Professor Jack Gazely, retired Dartmouth history professor and our freshman class advisor, died in August in Hanover at the age of 96. Our class was represented at the memorial service by Bob and MegAylward, Lem Bowen, Marion Bratesman,John Milne, and Harry and Mary Schultz three faculty members who taught us still living today: Chauncey(Chinz) Allen '24; Robin Robinson '24, math department; and Churchill P. Lathrop , art history.

Pat King, an honorary member of our class who was in Reading doing development consulting work at Albright College, called to renew 37 ties and to tell us that she will marry Thomas Penfield Jackson '58 in December Best wishes Pat, and bring Tom to our 55th Reunion.

President Fran Fenn wrote the class officers with the good news that Charlie Collis has agreed to serve as chairman of the Reunion Gift Committee. A reunion gift goal will be determined at the class officers meeting on September 28.

Elizabeth Rotch, daughter of Mint-Bag coeditor Bill Rotch, will soon become the first woman publisher of the Milford (N.H.) Cabinet according to a feature story in the August 17 Boston Globe. Established in 1802, devoting 50 percent of its newsprint to news, the Rotch family has printed the 8500-circulation paper every Wednesday for 191 years. The story quotes Bill's explanation of how a young Sixth direct descendent) acquired the Cabinet in 1809. The price was right, Bill explained, "Boylston had come up from Boston to work at the paper, and one evening the owner came up to this ancestor of mine and asked him: How would you like to buy the paper, young man? Well, he told the fellow that he didn't have any capital. After all, he'd just started working, and the owner said, 'Well, there's been a little trouble at the bank, and I have to be out of town before morning, so whatever you have will be enough.' And that's how we got started in the business."

Anthony Turkevich and C. Everett Koop will be honored at the national campaign Kickoff event November 15-16 at Lincoln Center m New York. On Friday evening at Avery Fisher Hall, a program will celebrate excellence at Dartmouth, featuring the world premier of a special film, recognition of the honorees, and an address by President Freedman.

At the September 14 dedication of the new Dartmouth-Hitchcock clinic, Chick Koop, the speaker, traveled from Hanover to the new hospital in Lebanon by horse and carriage carrying die medical bag of Nathan Smith, founder of the Dartmouth Medical School.

Our Hanover reporter Jud Smith, spotted Don and Helen McKinlay taking the admissions office college tour with their two granddaughters. I'll bet the tour leader didn't know there was a plaque in the Admissions Office recognizing Don as the "Founder of Dartmouth's Enrollment Program." We know that Don continues to practice what he preaches.

A mini-reunion report and more on the 55th Reunion plans for June 15-17, 1992, in the next column.

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