1943

50 years ago this month! Clips from the Daily Dartmouth: "Japs Unleash Fury on Corregidor"; "No Accidents, Robberies Mar Green Key Weekend" (Six Bowdoin men, however, ejected from Alumni gym, C & G House and DTD fraternity after causing disturbances); "British Bomb Paris"; "Two '44s Set New Coke Bottle Stacking Record"; "Russians Mop Up Encircled Germans."

"J" and "K" correspondents report as follows. John Keefe, retired attorney-turned- photographer, has settled in Lyndeborough, N.H., where he and Ann, a professional writer, occupy an 1837 parsonage. Son Bill '76 John's ex-law partner, and daughter Jane, town clerk and tax collector, work in nearby Wilton. Younger son Miles and elder daughter Alice, a religion teacher, reside in Brattleboro and Syracuse respectively. John takes travel photos for Control (from outer space?), and travels widely. He also affiliates with the family law firm, Keefe and Keefe, doing wills, trusts, or anything that doesn't interfere with travel, skiing, or general relaxation. He feels "Dartmouth and its students are as good as ever," and he is pleased that the College is doing better at keeping out of the newspapers.

Larry Johnson checks in from the Big Apple. He and Lucy divide their time between New York and Rockport, Maine. Larry is a retired attorney who practiced in Binghamton, N.Y., and N.Y.C. and served with the OSS during WW II in Burma, China, and India. He was head class agent for Tuck Annual Giving, class of '44, a tough job since no member of that class graduated from Tuck! Larry and Lucy have Mexico in their blood and left in January on their eighth driving trip—"we love that country." They plan to attend our 50th.

Although I reported our visiting Betty andBill Jones recently, Bill's name popped up as a "J", producing a full update. Successful in business, Bill is obviously one who is committed to giving back to bis community. He is chair of Cleveland Machine Controls, and recession adjustments and acquisitions in Boston and Frankfurt have delayed retirement. His company has grown 180 times over 27 years, and in 1991 he received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Northeast Ohio. His efforts to improve inner-city schools have earned him a governor's appointment as commissioner of the Ohio Educational Broadcasting Network. Bill and Betty were in Hanover over Homecoming Weekend, thence traveling to the Galapagos and Ecuador. They also have visited Alaska, Costa Rica, and Russia. Bill declares his negative attitude toward College policies has been softened by the U.S. News survey ranking the college high academically and first in student satisfaction. "I guess they're doing some things right."

If your writer may be permitted to crow a bit, Dartmouth's last two Rhodes Scholars came from Oregon, one from La Grande (great fishing country).

Sadly, Dale Ruedig of Sanibel, Fla., reports the death of Tom Kelly in Owatonna, Minn., on January 3. An obit will follow.

On the lighter side, when I presented a Dartmouth Book Award to a local high school valedictorian, a Native American with a 1420 SAT—but obviously lacking in PR sensitivity greeted me wearing a Harvard sweatshirt and offered coffee in a Princeton mug!

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