1953

We're on the backstretch for our 40th. All you planaheads block out June 14—17 right now. It's also time to send in recommendations to the nominating committee Don Goss, Paul Paganucci, Bob Simpson, Dick Blum, and Fred Stephens since we'll have a changing of the guard at reunion.

It was a great football season here. After the Columbia game we had a Bar Association meeting at Justice Bill Johnson's with fellow Justice Sherm Horton, Gib Murphy, TimThomas, and Dick McCostis there. Gib recently moved to Westerly, R.I., where he's a partner with Webber Jacobs and Murphy. Tim and Dick have no plans to retire.

Also there were a few non-lawyers. JackNewton is a financial advisor for Morgan-Worcester, an industrial plant builder in Worcester. John Kennedy has his own consulting firm in Mystic, Conn. Bill Chamberlin is on the development staff at DHMC. Dr. Jack Crisp keeps seeing patients to maintain his stately manse on Concord Ave. in the historic district of Nashua. Ted Hibson is a financial planner now with IDS in Shrewsbury, Mass., after many years with industrial companies in the area. Ted is the incoming president of the Dartmouth Club of Central Massachusetts. Seth Carpenter retired from Union Carbide in Connecticut and repotted himself here in Lyme. Seth and Pat are raising sheep, goats, and cows. She's working at the 300-head Burway Farm nearby, rated the number-one Holstein herd in the U.S. Seth's doing his own electrical and carpentry work for a house addition.

We have to make room again for BillCrotty. Our Democratic fundraiser with keys to the White House has been invited to lecture at Harvard's Kennedy School. He'll discuss campaign strategies and fundraising from Kennedy to Clinton, and also the Clinton transition.

The (Martha's) Vineyard Gazette had a fine article on our renaissance classmate LarryHarrison. He worked for USAID in Central America, wrote several books, was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Center for International Affairs and a representative to the Haiti Crisi Commission last year, is an amateur cellist, and most recently has been running Harrison's Restaurant on Oak Bluff Harbor. And not just as manager he and Pat are right there flipping and frying. After "bridge, girls, and poker" at Dartmouth he became a serious student at the Naval OCS in Newport, which kindled his adventurous spirit that led him to the foreign service.

The New York Times, May 13, conjectures that in a few years millions of people could be discarding glasses in favor of a procedure called photo-refractive keratectomy, in which a laser machine flattens the cornea to correct nearsightedness. A leading company in the field is VISX which makes machines based on the work of Dr. Fran L'Esperance and another Columbia University eye surgeon.

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