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Welcome returnees to the Sarasota D. Club meeting in February were Bill Hammond and Phil Hall. Bill was down from Inverness, Fla., where he has lived for ten years in retirement. He keeps busy by teaching a literacy class in the local school for three days a week. Phil still spends most of his time at the side of his wife, Shirley, in a Connecticut nursing home where she is recovering from a November stroke. Our thoughts are with this gallant pair and all other classmates who are struggling with health problems in their notso-golden years.

One person in this category is SteveWinship, who is facing elective prostate surgery. He and Lucy left the snowy hills of Hopkinton, N.H., this winter for more snow and some enjoyable skiing in Switzerland.

Another New Hampshire man, but one who prefers golf clubs to ski poles, is Bob Marcotte. He's still in Manchester where he has long operated his own insurance agency. After a heart attack 14 years ago and open heart surgery in 1983, Bob has slowly phased outmost of his insurance work. It gives him more time for loafing and golfing, he says.

Dick Cords, after a long legal career specializing in labor law as a management consultant, reports from Long Beach, Calif., that the only '4l he ever sees is Nick Carter. They bump into each other at civic events or get together to play golf. Dick and Ginnie recently enjoyed a short but fast-moving trip to Russia that included visits to Moscow and St. Petersburg. They found the Russian people warm, but the weather was cold. Dick says the art museums, Kremlin, and Red Square were very interesting, but it was sad to see so many people begging on the streets and selling trinkets to survive in the new economy.

As reported last month, peripatetic Georgeand Patty Herman were being lionized on the west coast of Florida in early March. This was followed, we can now report, by a visit to the East Coast, where they were greeted by Don Stillman, Gus Broberg and quite a few other Floridians. By watching his diet during this two-week tour, George was able to avoid any recurrence of the intestinal problem that took him to die New Hampshire emergency room in mid-January. These globe-trotting reporters are a tough breed.

Brodie and Fran Bjorklund migrated to Sarasota, Fla., in March, leaving the wintry winds of Long Island behind them. They expected their son Hank and his barrister wife to follow them in time to help celebrate Brodie and Fran's 51st anniversary, a worthy cause. Hank, now an attorney and VP at Chase Manhattan, may be remembered as the fellow who upset the Big Green football team in the early seventies with the help of some other Princeton Tigers.

And finally a breaking news item that you won't read in the DFTD. (Gotcha, George!) The New York Times reports: "Dartmouth tuition will be raised fromsl25tosl40."The clipping, recently furnished to this correspondent, was dated December 5, 1912.

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