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The holiday season brought a most welcome increase in correspondence, especially from classmates with whom I have been out of touch for many years. From Milwaukee, Paul Merriken writes that he, Jim Nelsen, and PhilMayer have been admitted to the senior branch of the Dartmouth Club of Milwaukee, either because of their advancing age or the club's need for funds. Paul says he has thought about retirement, but the steel business still has a firm grip on him for the short term, as the market is quite strong. Phil, however, has sold his interest in the metalstamping business and the family farm in Wisconsin and is building- a lakeside home in Kiowah, S.C. The Mayers will keep their summer home in Dodgeville, Wis., which they are in the process of winterizing.

In 1986 Julie Klein retired after 25 years with ABC-TV, where he was involved in media replacement sales. Since then he has been actively pursuing a number of interests which include private investing and financing, serving as a Republican-party activist with membership in the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle and the Republican National all of Honor, and philanthropies such as USO, Red Cross, U.S. Navy/Marine Corps Relief Society, and the College. Julie passed along a copy of a letter from President Bush thanking him for his support as a member of the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle.

The dust jacket of a newly published book entitled Money of the American Colonies and Confederation, a numismatic, economic, and historical correlation by Phil Mossman, was sent to me recently. The book covers American monetary history of the pre-Federal period, focusing on the "small change" or copper coinage of the Confederation up to the summer of 1789. Phil has been a coin collector since boyhood, and this book is the result of his long involvement with collecting and his study of early American political and monetary history. Phil is director of rehabilitation at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. He and Mary live in Hampden, Maine, and have three grown children.

Last October the Kennedy Library was rededicated, and WBZ-TV in Boston broadcasted a commentary on the JFK legacy by Dick Hogarty, director of the Graduate Pro- gram in Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and a senior fellow at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. Dick was asked to provide the commentary because of his active role in the Kennedy presidential campaign in New Jersey in 1960. Dick and Ann have three granddaughters, and another grandchild is on the way. Dick still follows Dartmouth football and was pleased at the exciting outcome of the Harvard game. Wonder how he liked the final minutes of the Princeton game?

A brief note from Kilt Andrew brought the surprising news, at least to me, that he and Ann have pulled up stakes and moved to Vero Beach, Fla., effective last October 1. Judging from the snow outside my window today, Kilt made the move just in time. He must have consulted Jud Hale's weather forecast.

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