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Our mini-reunion October 8—9 was perfection itself. On Friday seven foursomes toured the immaculate, demanding Lakeside Course at Quechee. The temperature reached 75 degrees, and the surrounding hills were ablaze with color. Allon Pierce won low gross, but then she did use the red tees. John McCauley won from the whites. Saturday’s executive committee meeting was held in check by President Steve Hull, not withstanding injections of humor by Judge Joe Michael and other jesters. Thirty-five attendees from as far away as Ohio and North Carolina accom- plished much. Treasurer John Osborn report- ed that the class is fiscally sound. Bob Aldom received his usual standing ovation for his usual outstanding arrangements. He said 83 ’4sers and wives were taking part. Cocktails at Bob and Glad Aldoms’ lovely home in Hartland on Saturday evening were followed by “Toad’s Wild Ride” through the night of drizzle and falling, blowing leaves to our for- mal dinner at the Montshire Museum. The less said about the football game vs. UNH, the better—except to note our seats were on the 43-yard line (as close as we’ll get to the 50), and the tailgating at the Lutheran Church Parking lot in sunny weather was outstand- ing. Cliff Jordan received ’4s’s Man For All Seasons Award (formerly Man of the Year Award) for his long and devoted service to the class. All agreed he—and wife Betty—were most worthy recipients. To sum up, if you weren’t there, you missed a great one, even though hospitality room “19” folded earlier than usual: age, you know.

—o 7 J By way of George Parkhurst ’3O and ’4B Secretary Sonny Drury comes a human-inter- est tale related in the Baltimore Sun. Seems that 70-year-old Judge Joe Young dropped his wallet at a convenience store in Hamp- den. The judge drove off. Along comes Joseph Harley, who spotted the wallet and rescued it, from under the car of a young man who may have been eyeing it, by claiming it was his. Harley contacted Joe and returned the judge’s wallet. Said the Judge: “You don’t expect things like that to happen in this age. I guess it’s a minor miracle in today’s world.” Said Harley: “Even if I’d kept the money and mailed the wallet back, I would have felt dis- honest. See, I love to go home and sleep at night. That’s what it’s all about.” P.S.: Joe Young did give his new friend Joe Harley the $4l from the wallet.

From the Oak Ridger (Tenn.): “There are three lines on Bob Dyer’s Department of Energy business card. The first two list him as Facility Safety Engineer for DOE’s Facil- ities and Systems Safety Branch. The third says, ‘Guru of Safe UF6 Processing.’

“Since 1945, Dyer has been involved with operations at the Oak Ridge K-2 5 Site, work- ing 35 years for Union Carbide, and then for the DOE. Dyer knows about gaseous diffu- sion and uranium hexfluoride, which is the process gas used to produce highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons—or today, for nuclear power plants. Speaking in a voice that’s a cross between an East Coast aristo- crat and comedian W.C. Fields, Bob debunks the notion that workers in the early Oak Ridge didn’t know what they were doing: ‘People believe that us old guys didn’t know what the hell we were doing. Well, that’s wrong. They were not 90-day wonders. They were people who knew what the hell they were doing.’”

Asked about retirement, our classmate responded, “I think I’d go nuts if I went home and sat on the front porch and did nothing.”

Thought For The Month: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas.”

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