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Beautiful weather prevailed for the 61 class members wives, widows, and guests attending our mini-reunion September 24-25. We enjoyed meeting and hearing Lee Pelton, Dartmouth’s dean of students, at the Friday-night dinner at the Outing Club House. Chuck and Betty Bassett beamed when the dean described the 1997 class of 1,088 member as resourceful and brilliant. Their granddaughter Marisa, daughter of son Tom ’67, is a member of the freshman class. The dean paid tribute to Charlie and EllenCollis for answering die call of the College to enlarge Collis Center to meet the needs of the student body. The profile of the freshman class reveals that 812 different high schools are rep- resented, 56 percent were in die top 10 per- cent of dreir class and one quarter were either number-1 or -2 in rank, he said.

During the Saturday-morning class meet- ing, Bob McCoy, reporting for the class pro- jects committee, recommended diat teak bench- es be installed in front of Collis Center. The idea was received enthusiastically since the benches we placed in front of the Hopkins Cen- ter are well used. Mini-reunion co-chairmen Charlie Blaisdell and John Johannessen described plans for the 1994 mini on Septem- ber 23-24. Charlie Collis reviewed plans for Collis Center and announced that the dedica- tion is scheduled for January 14-15, 1994.

_ J , The tailgate patty was well attended and the Saturday-night dinner at the Coolidge Hotel was unusually good despite the absence of Stan Berenson’s piano melodies. Next year, Stan.

The UNH student paper headline read, “Koop Makes House Call for Health Care Reform.” Speaking at the UNH centennial- year Summit Lecture Series, Koop said, “This is not a time to just say no,” and encouraged the public to look at the program before con- demning it. Koop was awarded the UNH Pettee Medal for his service to the nation.

We learned the sad news that Flo Moore, widow of Lansing Moore, died on Septem- ber 2 8 in her hotel room in Venice, Italy, where she was traveling. Flo and Lanse were on many class trips and made all the reunions and mini-reunions. Their names will be perpet- uated at Dartmouth by the Lansing Porter Moore Theater, the soon-to-be renovated and re-named Center Theater in the Hop- kins Center, for which Flo donated $2,000,000.

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