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One of my first columns recollected that Bob McCollom seems to have been the first in our class to get married (freshman year) and that Dick Longabaugh's son Ricky is probably the class baby (born May 3, 1954).

And now for the sequel: Jay and PaulinaGreene are expecting the birth of Maria Paulina in late July. With that event, the span between the oldest and youngest class child will be nearly 38 years. And if Maria Paulina should put together an application that the admissions office likes, we might visit Hanover for her graduation in June of 2014, seven years after our 50th. (What do you predict a year at Dartmouth will cost then?)

The downside is that Jay and Paulina's attendance at reunion has become highly conjectural. We may have to forego Jay's promised account of his experiences growing grapes and turning them into wine. His domain embraces 37 vines planted in June 1986. Last year's crop will yield about 150 bottles. A Napa Valley neighbor and wine expert sampled that vintage and pronounced it the best in the history of the Casa de Las Robles vineyard, and quite good. Jay is sure the reunion wine seminar will be a great success even if he can't make it. "After all, [Bill Edgerton's tasting will be a hell of a lot more interesting and satisfying than some turgid thing on how to cultivate grapes." Class vigor continues to shine brightly in other areas as well. Bob Macdonald slammed in the winning goal in February's alumni hockey game. According to Bob, "the game featured players from the class of '57 onward and included a few professors and one woman doctor. The coaches divided about 30 players into two approximately equal teams. It was a very tight game, and finally the score got to 8-8. Then I scored the winning goal... just stuffed it home underneath the goalie (class of '81). There was a deflection and I was right there

. . . opportunistic. I got knocked down a few times. When I was flat on my back, that's when I started to count the crowd. There were several thousand fans in attendance the way I figured it. The crowd seemed to swell the longer I lay there. Skip Bohn's kid Jack played on our team. Dave Orr was there. He never misses a game."

Seeking amusement in a somewhat less bone-crushing way, Don Heston and LeeHirschey were part of a group that flew up to Lake Chateauguay, near the Arctic circle in Quebec, for trout fishing and caribou hunting. Don said "you go in on float planes, and there's nobody else around for a couple of hundred miles except a few Inuits. The trout fishing was absolutely gorgeous. One day my partner and I must each have caught [and released] at least 80 brook trout." High living.

See you at reunion . .

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57's in town again RETURN TO THE SOURCE 57 1992 JUNE 15 - 18, 1992.