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On October 9, 1993, Richard P. White died. He was just one month and one day short of his 97th birthday! I remember this because Dick's birthday was the day after mine, November 9. I hadn't know Dick all that long, perhaps ten years or more. Little did I know when I first made his acquaintance that we would be working closely together for five years (1988 to 1993) for the class of' 18. When my dad, Tom Bryant, died in 1986, it appeared that the class newsletter, The Roar, as well as any columns for the Alumni Magazine, would die right along with him. When Dick wrote me about this dilemma, I suggested that I liked to write as much as my father, so why not let me try to do the reporting? Dick was pleased, and that is how Pat Koedding, Skidmore College class of '51, became the class newsletter editor and contributor to the Alumni Magazine. Over the next five years Dick and I kept in contact by telephone and letter, and sometimes I would travel from my home in Chadds Ford, Pa., to his home in Silver Spring, Md. I used to kid him and say, "It's a good thing we get a lot accomplished when we get together because it's a heck of a long way to 'do lunch!"'

So, Dick, I will miss the telephone calls, the luncheon dates and the short notes ending in "Cheers!" We were a good team and we kept the "Wah Hoo Wah" Boys going for a few years!

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