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Percy Rideout, ski team captain in our time, was distressed to read in the Sacramento Bee that his former downhill-racing teammate—and our newsletter editor—Chap Wentworth had died. With the information Perc sent me, an obituary has been prepared and submitted to this magazine.

A New York Times article headlined "Cancer Group Arranges Free Flights" said that Jay Weinberg's Corporate Angel Network has recently doubled its space at the Westchester County Airport. It seems Jay can never retire from that vital volunteer work which helps cancer patients with their long-distance air travel.

If you thought Ike Weed and Hazel had run out of wild places to paddle their canoe, think again. Last summer they were on Wonder Lake, north of Mt. McKinley.

Clevelanders don't have to have their minireunions in Cleveland. In October in Ari- zona at Litchfield Park there were BobMacMillen, Elmer Browne, Karl Bruch, EbCockley, Dave Davenport, Scotty Rogers, and their wives.

Bob Graham's book, The Dartmouth Story, got a sudden boost in circulation when the class of 1934 arranged for each entering freshman to receive a copy last fall.

Bob Armstrong, past president of the Charlotte, N.C., Alumni Club attended the recent club officer's meeting in Hanover but found no other 1940s there. Larry Cate has been spending winters in Naples, Fla., for five years and has yet to see a classmate. Where can the dozen or so of our members who live there be hiding?

Bob and Ami Berger attended a reunion of Bob's 11th Bombardment Group in Hawaii, followed by a stirring ceremony at Hickam Field and Pearl Harbor on December 7. At the Boston gathering of Wearers of the Green in April, John Manley will be the first recipient of a new award, Honorary Wearers of the Green, for those who have given special help to Dartmouth Athletes.

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JayWeinberg'sCorporate AngelNetwork helpscancer patientswith their long-distance air travel.-CHET BERRY '40