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Over the years Jim Boldt, our erstwhile secretary, has concentrated on investing in his. children, and this philosophy continues to pay high dividends. Aside from wife Nan's six children, Jim has seven of his own (one son is class of '79) and 19 grandchildren. Number-five granddaughter received early acceptance to the class of '97, while number-two granddaughter, an '87, has just presented Jim with his first great-grandchild, a boy destined to graduate in the year 2014.

According to Rudy Pacht, Charlie andPhyllis Nayor's daughter Nancy has just signed a six-year contract to serve as casting director at Universal Studios. Philinda andBill Krieg celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with the entire family in Sarasota, Fla. Lew Cole, having discovered that he is now the senior alumnus in the Louisvile Dartmouth Club, is off for another cruise on a cargo/passenger vessel to South America. Earl Arthurs had a great luncheon with CamDuncan who was on his way to Egypt, Tex., with wife Vevie for a family reunion.

Brown & Haley of Tacoma, Wash. a firm co-founded by Fred Haley's father, later headed by Fred for many years, and now presided over by Fred's son Mark recently experienced its best year ever. The firm is best known for its Almond Roca, a chocolate and nut-covered butter-crunch confection being produced at the rate of up to 400,000 pounds per day. A new product has been developed, Belgian Cremes (a molded chocolate with 12 kinds of cream fillings), which in blind taste tests has scored higher than its major domestic rivals, Whitman and Russell Stover, and earned comparable scores to Godiva, a European line three times as expensive.

Quentin Anderson's Making Americans: AnEssay on Individualisni, and Money has just been published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. SamMilesky, who never sees any Dartmouth graduates in or around Madison, Wis., received a Special Service Award from the Division for Children with Communicative Disorders (part of the State Federation of Teachers in Special Education), which he founded back in 1964.

Of the 62 classmates lost in the past three years, Jim Averill, Ev Dann, Clyde Shaw, and Bill Wilks have not been previously mentioned. Unfortunately, during the past year the number of deceased classmates has climbed above those living, 354 (52.8 percent) to 316 (47.2 percent).

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