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Last month Ron Campion announced that his 85-yearold family store on Main Street in Hanover would close. Just a year ago Ron initiated a plan to restructure and jump start the business, but, in his words, "ran into the eye of a recession. There were too many things working against us." The business had seen five years of declining revenues and financial losses and, in addition, faced higher operating costs, Hanover parking problems, increased competition and the trend towards catalog buying in the women's field. The Dartmouth community will not be the same without the familiar store next to the Inn. Ron will continue to have business activities in Hanover, where he has interests in commercial real estate.

Jack Doyle sent a recent clipping and photo from the Boston Globe concerning the famed Boston Atoms amateur hockey team. For the second time in three years the Atoms finished second in the Final Five North American Championships held in Edmonton, Alberta. The team previously won the Boston and Eastern championships of Hockey North America. The photo featured the team's "ageless wonders, brothers Mike and Nat Gorton, who are in their SOs and the oldest players in Hockey North America." As Jack put it, "it's great that some guys don't know their age."

Ever wonder what the class does with class dues and associated funds? In addition to providing scholarships for deserving children of classmates, the class has made gifts to several college activities. The most recent was the gift of a multi-station lat pull Nautilus machine for the strength training facility at the gym. It is the only one of its kind in the facility and is extensively used by students and faculty. It bears a suitably inscribed plaque recognizing the class donation. I encourage you to drop in and see it when next in the gym. You might even find Mike Gorton using it!

Eagle-eyed Woody Goss sent me a Wall Street Journal clipping reporting that classmate Bob Wool had won a 1991 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism. Bob and four colleagues at Money magazine were cited for a series of articles on the Internal Revenue Service. Among other things, the articles reported on the high error rate in computer-generated dunning letters and offered tips on how to deal with them. The same series also won the authors a Deadline Club award for public ser- vice reporting. After one and a half years as senior editor and tax columnist at Money, Bob has gone back to writing fall time, producing books and magazine pieces on taxes and psy- chology. His latest book, Inner Children, on the psychological development of kids, was published last year, and he is currently plan- ning a sequel on adolescence as well as a book on small business taxation. Bob and wife Bridgett have two girls ages 8 and 11 who no doubt provide good experience for the books! The Wools have a country home in Washing- ton, Conn., where they spend most of their weekends. They recently went out to dinner and the theater with Lou Miano, and Bob sees Bob Morton from time to time in New York.

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