1956

Congratulations to Professor Roberts French, awarded the Distinguished Teacher Award at U-Mass, where he has been on the English faculty since 1964 when he received his doctorate from Brown.

Ambassador to Portugal Ted Briggs has been elected president of the Americas Society and president of the Council of the Americas. A career diplomat, Ted has already served as Ambassador to Panama and Honduras, and in diplomatic posts in Mexico City, Bogota, Asuncion, Luanda, Lisbon, Berlin, and La Paz.

A nice article in Cross Country Skier tells us about Len Johnson's JENEX Corporation, of Amherst, N.H., which designs and engineers roller skis and skate wheels.

George Brophy has two triumphs to crow about; he has gotten through a serious bout with cancer and has proceeded to rejuvenate ABTCO, a building materials company in Neenah, Wise.

But not all the news is good. We have lost three classmates recently. Kit Marshall died on April 15 in Virginia Beach, Va., after a long illness. Kit was captain of freshman track, and he had recently founded a business which employed and trained disabled people. Reverend Kendall Link passed away on June 28 after a long and courageous struggle with AIDS. Ken was a cheerleader at Dartmouth and worked at WDCR. At one time he was known as the "Rock and Roll Reverend" in Harrisburg, Pa. Lastly, Bill Beagle died rather suddenly of cancer on August 9 in Orinda, Calif. Dick Zock was with Beags through the last days and represented the class at the funeral. Bill Miles wrote as follows: "On this sunny soft California day, with a quiet assemblage there to remember Bill, I was caught up in a reverie about him, and us, and September 1952. The callow youth from Danville, Pa., went on to raise a roar at will in crowded stadiums any Saturday in the fall at home and away from the Hanover Plain during our years there. His sly humor, his wily way at any game, his baritone voice saved only for special occasions. A basically modest man of common sense and uncommon decency, skills, and character. I don't know why I can't stop thinking about A. E. Housman." It's so long to three worthy classmates, for "in the Dartmouth fellowship there are no good-byes."

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