1940

Our western trip was a great success. The first stop was at Rancho Santa Fe, where Loomie and ScottyRogers cooked a delicious Boast chicken lunch which we enjoyed with Joe Huber, Bill Coulson, and Mary Ann and Herb Porter. Lots of reminiscing about the good old days and regrets that some other classmates in the area were not able to join us. On to Tucson, where Christine and Cliff Holmes showed us everything from the famous desert museum to ski slopes and symphony concerts to humongous Indian craft shows. With JoeDunford we got our introduction to Tombstone and Boot Hill. Of the scores of graves there, the most unusual inscription said: "SHOT BY MISTAKE." The meeting of the Tucson Dartmouth Club was whelmed over by the 1940s, including all of the above plus Everett and Elizabeth Czerny.

Chap Wentworth, former downhill racer, is editor of a new book about California goldrush days entitled Lost Sierra: Gold, Ghosts, andSkis. The skis were 12 feet long and let the old miners hit speeds topping 80 miles per hour. Even in 1940 that would have been "not too shabby." Chap says that Bill Chapin gave him lots of help with the editing.

A non-D friend sent me a copy of PageSmith's swan song his final column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Since most of us have found the retirement scene stimulating enough, Page should be able to handle it.

Would you like to see an example of quick recovery from surgery and chemotherapy? Take a look at the color photos in a recent L.A. Times, which compare a Jack Rourke of May 1991 with the 30 pounds heavier Jack of November 1991.

Three Dartmouth alumni on the staff of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute invited us Cape Codders to a luncheon and lectures on oceanography. What a beautiful campus overlooking Nantucket Sound and Martha's Vineyard. Prominent '40s we saw there were Rodday, Reeves, Seller, and Gordy Wentworth.

Congratulations to Ted and TweedyMiller on their 50th wedding anniversary. On account of that celebration, they missed the meeting of class officers in Hanover which included Williams, Mercer, Whitcher, Austin, Berger, Halsey, and Gordy Wentworth. Discussions there with students, faculty, administrators, and Hanover residents convinced me that the picture is very much better than reported in some national media.

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