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I can't help publicly expressing my sorrow at BillCraig's resignation as class president. He is an old, close friend (we were fraternity brothers 50 years ago) and one is saddened to see friends unhappy or disillusioned, whatever the cause or the reason. Bill and I haven't always seen eye-to-eye, but that has never watered down our affection for each other. I'm doubly sorry, then, to see an unhappiness with certain college administrative policies lead to his disaffection with the overall college and, in turn, his stepping down as a class officer. He has given his all to Dartmouth and to '44 over long years and any diminishment leaves us all with less.

Mikhail Gorbachev is a president with an entirely different kind of problem, and ClintGardner is trying to help out. As head of the "U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bridges for Peace" program for a number of years he has arranged for the exchange of himdreds of people between the two countries. He is now embarking on a new teaching program, Toward a Market Economy, whereby he and others will instruct Soviet managers on the basics of capitalism. "Professor" Clint expects the first class to have an enrollment of 40 students, located in a small city some 600 miles northeast of Moscow.

Santa Barbara, Calif., radiologist JimMcClintock says he missed his old full-time employment at a local cancer center and he is having to make do with part-time stints at other centers in the area. His daughter Liz '86 is on her way back to a Peace Corps assignment in Morocco, after having been evacuated last January because of the Persian Gulf crisis. Jim says further that he hopes to make the fall mini-reunion October 25-26.

A very nice happening: the late AndyMacdowell's son Andy Jr. is a freshman this fall at Dartmouth, class of 1995, if you please! I remember noting back in the early '7os that we had 44 youngsters on campus at one time. Have we had, do we have, any '44 grandchildren in Hanover?

A Florida pelican has reported a new sighting: Charlie and Pat Martus, escapees from Westchester County, N.Y., are happily ensconced in a Deerfield Beach condo. We just hope that doesn't exclude seeing them annually around Baker Library.

A communique last winter from JackSnobble includes yet another article on cowboy-ing in Trilogy magazine, and the following update: "The Utah desert rides this year were great. Real adventure and archaeology on horseback and I'm looking to more of the same this spring. Rides last summer included setting up the Crystal River ride, cattle drives in Wyoming and Utah, and an Elderhostel canoe trip on the Green River (as, ahem, guest lecturer). Then, a wonderful chance to ride horseback in New Zealand. What a country! I also get in some senior citizen x-countiy skiing with Ja Densmore and Bill McElnea via the local POITS Club (POITS stands for 'Piss On It, Tomorrow's Saturday')."

A final kudo: this publication, the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, has won Newsweek's Sibley Award for as the best periodical in higher education. And a final reminder, fall mini-reunion is October 2526, Homecoming weekend.

That's it. Blessings.

Fredrick L.Hier P.O. Box 24, Lovejoy Hill, Cornish Flat, NH 03746