1944

Othello: "For I am declined/ into a vale of years." Well, that's your problem, old Othello buddy. Try telling it to Don Campbell. Don writes that he's a new father! He and wife Patricia Goldstein Campbell '76 are parents of Kaitlin Dawn Campbell, born October 7,1991, and a candidate for the class of 2012. "If you're running a contest for late fatherhood among the '44s," says Don, "I'd like to enter." Enter? As far as I'm concerned, old Don buddy, you win, hands down. Besides parenting, Don and Pat ran a horse farm in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.

We had six Davises in our class, and I thought I'd check 'em out. Harry Davis died in 1983, and Frank and Bob have pretty much dropped out of sight. Very much with it, though, is Dick Davis, in Needham, Mass. He reminded me that "in the beginning, everyone in the world was named Davis. But as they began committing sins here and there, they changed their names to something else, and that leaves just a few of us Davises left." Dick is retired, but still active in the church and with a number of volunteer jobs in town.

"I walk a lot," he says, "but I get my naps in, too. We have seven grandchildren, but of course they're all my wife Dot's. I'm not old enough for that sort of thing."

Ab Davis is also retired, and he and wife Pat hang out in Madison, Conn. Being on the water, they also hang out on their power boat; and for two and a half months every winter they hang south to a rented condo in Jupiter, Fla., where Zb can keep his 18 golf handicap in line. A former private pilot, Ab is now content to stay on the ground and fly radio-controlled model airplanes. He even makes his own.

Just one golf stroke behind (19 handicap) is retired Sherm Davis, who, with wife Sally, lives in Olympia Fields, I11., just south of Chicago. Sherm heads for the first tee at least four times a week, even when he and Sally are traveling, which they do a lot. They buzz around mostly in the U.S., including Hawaii, Canada, Bermuda, etc.

In case you missed reading it elsewhere, West Shell was one of the three recipients in 1991 of the University of Cincinnati College of Business Administration's Distinguished Service Awards.

New Years guests of Russ and HelenaBurdge at their new digs in Hanover were old buddies Bruce and Sonja Dean and Daveand Ann Patterson. A couple of years ago the Deans bought a condo in Seabrook, S.C., and now they spend part of the year there and part at their condo in Grafton, Mass. They also do their share of traveling: they've recently done the Dartmouth trips to China and die Danube.

The Pattersons sold their house in Binghamton, N.Y., and moved into a condominium. Dave, of course, has been named editor of our 50th Reunion Book, and you'll be getting a questionnaire from him one of these days. Get your pencils sharpened.

Harold "Bushy" Salmanowitz says he keeps missing our fall mini-reunions in Hanover because they conflict with board meetings and his four grandkids' vacations in Geneva, Switzerland. "Two of Bushy and Bettys children live in Geneva, and each of them have two children. Bushy and Betty moved lastyear from Armonk, N.Y., to Naples, Fla. That's it. Blessings.

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