1950

I made a mistake. LenMatless tells me that we are not having a tent nor a steak and lobster dinner (as I wrote in April) for our mini-reunion, October 16-18. Friday is Homecoming Parade and Bonfire; Saturday night will be dinner at the Woodstock Country Club. Look for notices.

For the 13th year Hanover received the National Arbor Day Association award as "Tree City of the Year." The class of '50 can claim some credit thanks to our Tree Program, administered by Newc Eldredge.

David Fink has retired after more than 41 years in education, the last 15 as director of educational services at York (Pa.) Hospital. He has been involved with a wide range of students: medical residents, teachers, graduate school, and elementary. We wish him and Barbara many good years of retirement.

Steve Miner retired in January from Boeing, where he had managed strategic planning. He now has more time for his hobbies: collecting old maps of Kansas, collecting nineteenth-century tools, "tracking and training" the Santa Fe Trail, geneology, skiing, and maintaining wilderness areas. Wow!

John DeGraff has been named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. The college is a national association of only 4,500 members which seeks to improve the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice, and legal ethics. After Dartmouth John graduated from Cornell University School of Law. He has been practicing law in the Albany, N.Y., area for 35 years.

Cal Sia has been honored again this time by the American Academy of Pediatrics, in recognition of his significant contributions to pediatrics. He was previously featured in Contemporary Pediatrics for his role as an advocate for children.

Congratulations to Head Agent Bill Carpenter for having been given Dartmouth's Distinguished Alumni Award. We are delighted when we learn of honors given to our classmates.

Joe Medlicott tells me that Karen andDavid Taylor were in Joe's ILEAD (Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth) course on American Nobel Prize writers. Randi andNev Chamberlain visited her home in Norway this Spring and plan to be in Pittsfield, N.H., early in June. President Jacques andMary Harlow attended his daughter's wedding in Spain. They were back in time for him to run for town councilman in Ridgewood, N.J. Bob Funkhauser's and Peter VanHerman's daughters were roommates at Dartmouth (class of '88). The families came together in Sundance, Utah for Joan VH's wedding. Peggy and Jim Vail took a trip to Tokyo for their son's wedding.

Vice President Ed Tuck forwarded a letter from A 1 Mitchell saying that he and four other classmates attended Scotty Olin's funeral: Mary and Jacques, Fran and Paul Canada,Bob McIlwaine, and Tony Poltrack. Ed and Al wonder if classmates might like to contribute to a campus tree in memory of Scott.

Roseanne and Frank Barker had a "wonderful month in Europe, sort of celebrating our first anniversary:" Milano, Regaleali in Sicily, Nice, Aix, Strasbourg, Zurich. "Couldn't have been nicer."

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