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"Lest the old traditions fail" is a line from our College song. Green Key, the Hums on the steps of Dartmouth Hall, are wonderful Spring traditions. Now we have a fairly middle-aged (as we are) tradition: Class Officer's Weekend, held in mid-May. The classes come together to plan, socialize, and share experiences to enrich our input to class projects and programs.

We are just coming from a most enjoyable and productive C.O.W., attended by President Hugh Chapin, VP Bob Huffman, Treasurer Dick Hollerith, your Secretary, Newsletter Editor Ed "Mr. Ed Ed" Grady, Bequest Chairman Norm Fink, and Frank Weber, attending for Head Agent Bob Mortimer. We met in two sessions on Saturday, held in the Topliff/New Hamp dorms, our project cluster. We made a good start on planning for our 50th Reunion, June 12-14,1997. Remember all those gnarled old duffs with canes, rocking on the Inn porch? That's us, guys, in five short years. Plan on it. I think it was Al Foley who said, "the more reunions you attend, die longer you live!"

While our wives toured the new hospital, shopped the Powerhouse Mall, and checked out new area condos, your hard-working Officers attended seminars which will make us more effective in our jobs, as you will no doubt notice. We also heard Junish Arora '94, our dorm cluster's coordinator, tell us of the programs our class helps support: talks by professors, brunches and barbecues, and, this year, the start of an in-house library. It's a great way to keep in touch with undergrads. More in the next newsletter.

Here's word from Alan Hall. He retires from St. Paul's School in late Summer. Having taught there for 40 years, he is now serving as director of publications. After a good night's sleep, Alan returns the next a.m. to be re-hired as part-time director of publications. Can we teach him new tricks or what?

Dr. John Waugh addressed the Harvard Faculty Club last March, where he was the Richards Medal Speaker. John has received many honors and distinctions for his work, and he travels nationally and overseas as a lecturer and advisor in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. NMR is a technique used in the study of molecular structure in chemistry and biology.

While on that very subject, Mike Pender is a structure which comprises a great many very active molecules. He is serving as president of the World's Fair Collecting Society, a job which could lead to accumulating a great many more molecules. Should we ask Franny about her attic space? Mike, of course, was a major planner of the New York World's Fair the big one, in the Meadowlands.

For the second straight year, WalterPeterson, president of Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H., found his wife, Dorothy, beside him on the graduation podium. Last year she received the Alumni Distinguished Service award. This year the Senior Class honored Dorothy Peterson for 17 years of service to the College, selecting her for their honorary Bachelor of Arts degree. The Petersons are legendary at the lovely college. See you soon.

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