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Another academic year is almost underway. If you folks are starting something new, how about taking a moment to drop a line to EdGrady, Ginnie Mather, or myself? You'll be in print, we promise.

From our survey of last winter comes a fascinating story. Alan Zeller, now of New Harbor, Maine, when not traveling or working, has had a unique medical career. He is married to Bette, widow of our late classmate Doug Teschner, of Navy V-12. Alan had a private practice for a while, but he had the urge to travel. His major medical practice has been for the U.S. government with the Peace Corps, CARE, and Medico. He is now an independent consultant for the Peace Corps. Bette is an equal partner in the ventures, as they are assigned (requested) to set up medical services out of the chaos that sometimes exists in, for example, former Communist countries. Within the past two years, Alan & Bette have been to Riga, Latvia, and Albania. As a team, they have trained more than 2,000 volunteers in the necessary medical techniques. Their travels have included Europe, Africa, Kazakhstan, and other hard-to-locate places where medical relief is needed. This short highlight cannot do justice to the job they do, and is only a prelude to the story Alan and Bette can tell. But, oh yes, there is more: Alan says that he survived a lethal cancer in 1975 solely through the skill and ability of a classmate, Hardy Hendron. What goes around, comes around.

Word of Edwin Miller comes by newspaper via Joe Eisaman. Ed has been settled in San Diego, actually La Jolla, since Hanover and law school. In 1970 Ed was elected to a four-year term as San Diego County district attorney. Now, in 1994, he is running for a seventh consecutive term, and he has served longer than any other D.A. in all of California's 58 counties. Congratulations to Ed.

I have at my fingertips the responses to the class survey of November 1993. I see wonderful opportunities to put people in touch. I'll skip around through the list, and if you wish to know more about or contact a particular classmate, let me know, and you will be in touch.

Bill Bailey retired from Aetna Life & Casualty as assistant secretary to the vice chairman. Then a four-year career as chairman and CEO of MBIH Insurance. He and Carole do summers in N.Y.C. and winter in Southhampton, Bermuda.

Louis "Budd" Blaisdell is another islander: Isle an Haut, Maine, where Bud is chairman of the Electric Power Cos., chairman of the Island Store, and a selectman. This after a Thayer School education and a career of underwater ordnance for the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Division. Bud and Anne have felt much less pressure since settling in 1978 on a "rock in the ocean."

And another Mainer, Phil Booth, in Castine, must draw inspiration from his surroundings. He and Margaret retired early to Maine so Phil could write more than allowed within the confines of university teaching. The list of Phil's books, essays, and poems is long, and I note many awards in his bio. I recognize distinguished awards such as: Guggenheim Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow, Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Poets Fellow. Truly, fame is in our midst.

I've been asked to remind one and all that our class dues pay for this Alumni Magazine. Pay class dues timely, keep the magazine coming to your box, and be part of the success story of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, which last spring won top honors as best college magazine in the country from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education—not just this year, but for the fifth year in a row, and going for six.

See you in October, on the 14th and 15th for our biggest mini-reunion so far, where we plan for our 50th, June 6-8, 1997.

See you soon.

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