1944

On August 171 had a long day of meeting with our 50th Reunion Book committee and editor DavePatterson, with heady input from our reunion chairman, Jim Elliott. You won't be surprised to hear that both projects—book and June reunion—are right on track. But there's always room for improvement.

Which is to say that if you haven't yet booked passage to Hanover June 10-12, 1994, you should do so before another sun sets. Reunion weekend happily coincides with Commencement weekend, so we'll finally get to take part in the Commencement we never had, 50 years later. We even get to march and lead the senior class on to Baker Lawn, and how about that for apples!

But graduation means lots of parents and families vying for local hostelries, so housing is tough. If you haven't yet made reservations, you should know that the College puts us in choice rooms in the newest and fanciest dorms. Don't count on the Hanover Inn: it's been booked for that weekend since Eleazar W. was a tad of a lad.

The reunion book one-two punch consists of Dave Patterson and Steve Tate, with editor Dave in charge of just about everything, and Steve editing and feeding our deathless prose into his computer. By the time the book rolls off the presses in the spring, Dave and Steve should each be on the receiving end of a Nobel and a Pulitzer. Lawyer Steve, incidentally, is still very much involved in probate and estate planning work out of his Westport, Conn., home. "The phone keeps ringing, and I like to help where I can," he says.

A nice call from Bill Reinman in Youngstown, Ohio, saying he'd had an even nicer call from a Dartmouth undergraduate asking for a contribution to the Alumni Fund. "She was just as gracious as could be," said Bill, intimating that he was about ready to send her anything she might have asked for, including his wheelchair. A variety of health woes have confined Bill to that chair in recent years.

Budd and Carol Welsh have sold their Aspen Motel in Manchester, Vt., and have bought a house on a lovely two-acre lot about a mile above it. "We had many wonderful years there," says Budd, "but running a motel is backbreaking work, and it's now kind of nice to be looking down on it."

Chuck and Sally Secor wrote glowingly of the Dartmouth trip last March to Quito, Galapagos, the Coco Islands, and Costa Rica. Dick and Barbara Hinman '45 were also on the voyage, which was dandily escorted by the College's Prof. Marysa Navarro.

Dick Morse called from Seattle, saying he and wife Romi were on the mainland from their home in Hawaii for the birth of their fourth grandchild, and they'd be working their way down to California on a four-week vacation. Dick is the son of Dartmouth English Professor Stearns Morse, and his family returns regularly to a Morse family farm near Woodsville, N.H., about 50 miles north of Hanover. They will be at our 50th in June.

From Don Burnham in Ogunquit, Maine: "Hillary Rodham Clinton credits Prof. JoeGoldstein with inspiring and helping to shape her interest in the welfare and legal rights of children while she was at Yale Law School. As you know, Joe has a well-deserved world reputation in the sphere of the family and law."

That's it. Blessings.

P.O. Box 24, Lovejoy Hill, Cornish Flat, NH 03746

Hillary Clinton credits Prof. Joe Goldstein with inspiring her interest in the welfare and legal rights of children. -DON BURNHAM '44