1938

DUCKING THE ISSUE. If memory serves, crossing the Dartmouth campus about this time of year could be an experience if not an adventure, as aptly named duck boards waddled to stay on top of spring thaw floods. Can anyone recall getting through March and April with totally clean, dry shoes? Nonetheless the "ducks" were harbingers of spring, a welcome sight after the long, cold winter. Or don't they have winters like that anymore? Or even duckboards?

STILL GOING! Like the indomitable drumming rabbit on TV, Art Notch is still plugging along at R.A. Jones & Co., manufacturing packaging machinery. Arts bum ankle prevents his engaging in strenuous athletic activities, but he gets all the exercise he needs educating eight grandchildren.

"A GENIUS... and one of the truly good men of medicine. "So reads part of the copy of an ad run by the Aetna Life Insurance Company, In The Hartford Courant. The encomium refers to the late Dr. John Merrill who, as you may recall, lost his life in a boating accident in 1984. The ad, one of a series honoring Hartford people and places, was largely instigated by Dick Holt and another old friend of John's. Wish there were room to reproduce the entire message. Headlined "Lifesaver," it refers to John's pioneering work in nephrology, including his leadership of the team which performed the first successful kidney transplant in 1959.

IT'S THE LAW. A thoughtful note from Charles Donovan '43, brother of JackDonovan, included The Emory Lawyer's write-up of Hal Berman's latest accomplishments. Hal took the semester off last fall to complete the second volume of Law andRevolution, to be titled The Impact of the GreatNational Revolutions on the Development of theWestern Legal Tradition, 1517-1914. Back in 1991 Hal founded the American Law Center in Moscow and served as its initial director.

Additional tidbits from Charles's letter: Jack's wife, Dorthe Donovan, is now at the Danish Embassy in Berne; his daughter Barbara is newly married and chasing a Ph.D. at Georgetown, and his niece (Charles's daughter) is class secretary of '74.

QUICKIES. From Richmond, Va. EmMarstellar, having had a series of health problems, is now happily holding his own. He keeps in touch with Ed Thomas, whose homeport is Boca Raton, Fla. This piece of intelligence is confirmed by Ed, who further reports being engaged in the replacement parts business i.e., he has a new knee and a new eye, the latter referring to a successful cataract removal. Ed lives and plays on a golf course and sees Bob Foley now and again.

REUNION. According to Roget a reunion can be a social gathering or affair, a reception, a get-together, or (class act) a levee, matinee, or soiree. It can even be kissing and making up. Choose your option, but be sure you choose to be in Hanover for '38's great 55th.

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