1942

A good letter from Johnand Phoebe Montagne made me think about the time Betty and I spent several days with them at their lovely mountain home in Bozeman, Mont. (You know you're beginning to get old when you ask yourself "was that in our 1963 or 1984 cross-country trip?" Just for the record, I quickly recalled it was 1984, so all is not lost.) They were in Switzerland this summer visiting a prominent Swiss avalanche engineer who, with his wife, took them on a comprehensive rail, boat, postal bus, Cableway and wanderweg tour of several regions. John says that in mid-June he got a new left shoulder-joint emplacement in Billings and is "now painfully trying to make it work." The procedure was needed to correct a 20-year-old shoulder injury, and he expects complete restoration after extensive physical therapy. He plans to resume geological Fieldwork in the Yellowstone Valley immediately, "if the bears and mountain lions will allow it." Good luck, John!

Those other well-known world travelers, Bate and Posie Ewart, shared with me a copy of a May-to-mid-July intinerary which had them spending time in London, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Paris, and Villedieu before returning to their home in Wilmington, N.C. Bate offered to act on any '42 or Dartmouth College matters that might be pending in cities along his route.

Proving once again that some things move more slowly in these cooler northern climes, I have just received word that last April Luis Zalamea was one of the four finalists among over 400 participants in Mobil's Pegasus Literary Contest for the best novel published in Latin American in the last two years. His entry, has Guerras de la Champana (The Champagne Wars), is reportedly "the fictional saga of the Zalamea family's wanderings in South America, Europe and New England at the turn of the century." At the annual Class Officers Weekend last May, we received copies of the Dartmouth College Alumni Survey, a 60-page report produced by PSC International Ltd. of Arlington, Va. I found it extremely interesting and presented in a format that was highly accessible, Results for each of the 80 questions are shown in the charts that allow visual comparison among older alumni (1930-75), male alumni (1976-93), female alumni (1976-93) and all alumni. If you would like a (free) copy write to Pat Downing, 304 Blunt, Hanover, NH 03755, or call her at (603) 646-2259.

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