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The selection of Stephen P. Brown '91 as a Rhodes Scholar was good news to Stephen, Dartmouth, and our class, which funded him as a student intern to assist the College Archives in completing the processing of papers of recent Dartmouth College presidents. We were fortunate to meet Stephen on Class Officer's Weekend last year and were impressed by his poise, enthusiasm and accomplishments. Our best wishes and congratulations to him.

Rip Ripson told me of his September trip to France, England, Holland, and Portugal for a reunion with the 94th Troop Carrier Squadron. Rip was a glider pilot and took a radioman and jeep of the 82nd Airborn Division to Normandie. They had a great reception with the French in Ste. Mere Eglise and Chateaudun. He regrets that they missed the class trip group in Ste. Mere Eglise by about two days. He recommends Portugal as a great vacation place. Ben Doran please note.

Class trips director Ben Doran reports that future trips are on hold but I'm sure he will be keeping in close touch with Alumni holidays. Lynn Prescott visited Ben and Marge at Marathon and Pat Olsen was expected. Leeand Russ Stearns stopped in enroute to their vacation place in the Keys.

Harry Schultz, Professor Emeritus of Dartmouth, spoke to the Hanover Historical Society and Howe Library Association on the origins of Dartmouth. What a privilege it would be to hear Harry speak on this subject at our mini-reunion on September 27-28, 1991 or at our 55th Reunion June 15-17,1992.

Your secretary and Carolyn returned on January 17 from a photographic safari to Kenya and Tanzania. This was our second trip to Kenya but the first to Tanzania. We enjoyed fantastic weather which made photographing lions, leopards, cheetah, elephants, African buffalo, black rhinos, and giraffes an opportunity which probably will not be equaled by this alumnus. Highlights included the Olduvai Gorge, where in the early 1950's Drs. Louis and Mary Leakey made the discovery of the early "southern man," a partial skull with heavy jaws that was older than anything else excavated anywhere in the world to this date; the descent into the ten-milewide, 2000-feet-deep Ngorongora Caldera with thousands of pink and white flamingos around the shallow alkaline leak, and the thousands of wildebeast migrating on the vast Serengetd plain. Bird lovers can spot a hundred species in a day: eagles, black-kites, weavers, guinea fowl, barbets, kingfishers, storks, ibis, and the remarkable Secretary Bird.

Monk Larson '41 wrote in their column, "more's the pity the eligibles continue to shrink in number." We lost Lanse Moore, JackRichter, Ben Eskensen, Halsey Bullen, and Ted Bruce.

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