1944

Hey, if you've got any old buggy springs, plowshares, or WW II Sherman tanks in your backyard, get in touch with Bob Hirschfield in Bay City, Mich. Hirsch is still running the family business, scrap iron and metal (with a little lumber as a sideline). In the unlikely prospect of a rusting of his golf game, he expects to go right on mixing business irons with the golfing kinds. He and wife Elaine have a winter pad in Ft. Myers, Fla., and they are already making Big Plans for our Big Fiftieth in June 1994.

Also dividing time between the Midwest and Florida are Jim and Carol Briggs. Big on golf, retiree Jim trots out his 8-9 handicap a couple of times a week in Cincinnati, and then the Briggses spend the other six months of the year in Palm Beach Gardens, where Jim is active in PGA activities. The Briggses have also made early reservations for the 50th Reunion in '94.

Bill Wallace, Westfield, N.J., retired from the telephone companies (Bell and AT&T) nine years ago, and in the time since then he's been off the hook gardening, antiqueing, and participating in the operation of an historic old house-museum in Westfield.

"We're not quite Williamsburg, Virginia," says Bill, "but we try to do the same thing: keep this lovely old house for visitors today the way it was 250 years ago."

Bill is treasurer of the museum association and says he is an unofficial member of the cooking committee because he splits wood for the group.

The Wallaces have grandchildren (eight in all) in Westfield, Chicago, and Montpelier, Vt. On visits to the Vermont contingent, Bill has stopped in to see old roommate FrankBurns, who is the builder and owner of Skylight Lodge in Manchester Depot, Vt. Frank hasn't stayed in touch with Dartmouth much, but Bill says he's healthy, happy, and hardworking.

Retired M.D. Jim McClintock and wife Jo write ecstatically of their many trips to Morocco to visit daughter Liz 'B6, who was a Peace Corps volunteer there for four years. "We found it a fascinating country," says jim, "with its striking scenery, interesting old cities, friendly natives, and a very different way of life."

Kudos: Frank Martell, a member of a law firm bearing his name, was honored June 26 with the Lawyer of the Year Award by the Washington, D.C., Defense Lawyers' Association.

Dud Wilson reports, "I retired in June, moved out of the New York area (too expensive), and bought an old house which needs renovating in Conway, S.C." Dud happily says that his lymphoma is in recession.

Art and Alice Kiendl are opting for milder weather and will be leaving Down East, Maine (Castine), for a spot down east in Maryland (Heron Point). They'll be in a retirement community there, which is just around the corner from Washington College, whence Alice graduated and where old friends still meet to greet. Art says his old roommate Dick Oakley has bought a house in Vinalhaven, Maine.

Don't forget your two questionnaires: one to Dick Whiting for the new directory, and the second to Dave Patterson for the 50-year reunion book.

I am sad to report yet another class death. Charlie Pappas of Manchester, N.H., died of pneumonia July 31. Our sympathies to his family.

That's it. Blessings.

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