1973

Out of Africa. When we last left our hero, AP News Service veteran Wayne M. David of Charleston, W.V., he was headed to Kenya and Tanzania as a U.S. Agency for International Development consultant. (In an earlier, less kind, and less gentle age, Wayne's USAID assignment would sound like a thinly disguised CIA mission. But I digress.)

Wayne tells me he prepared for his East Africa trip by watching The Lion King movie about 100 times. (No big deal for those of us with young children, Wayne.) We'll see how he made out after he returns and files a report with your class secretary.

How we spent our summer. On Memorial Day, Wayne's family was joined at their country house in Greenbrier County, W.V., by Barry Brink '71 and family for a raft trip down the New River. Wayne reports that Barry, who was a star defensive tackle for Dartmouth's undefeated '70 football team, demonstrated his still-amazing athletic prowess by repeatedly going airborne in the raft while traversing Class V rapids. Still packing a punch, Barry landed with repeated bodyblocks to his fellow passengers.

Wayne sends greetings to Chuck Thomas, Chip Reese, and Bob Fisken.

My wife Lynda planned and executed a summer vacation for our family to northern New York and Ontario, Canada. Mountainclimbing near Lake Placid, N.Y., driving through the Adirondack State Park, viewing Niagara Falls (from the American and the Canadian sides), and driving safari-style through a massive African game preserve near Hamilton, Ont., were highlights of our trip..

Ontario is a grand province which gave nine of its sons to our class. Many now live and work in "the lower 48," but Ontario still has a firm hold on Roger Smith in Ottawa with CTV elevision Network, Ltd.; Jake Johnston, an educator in Mississauga; Pete Prouk, a ReMax realtor in London; and Dave Walkom in claims services in Tavistock.

The production company for The Simpsons has asked Bob to contribute to its fall opener which will reveal "who shot Mr. Burns" in the Dallas-style season-ending episode last

spring. In August Bob appeared in a regional theater near Los Angeles in Twelve Angry Jurors. It's a revised version of the classic Twelve Angiy Men with some of the juror roles rewritten for women. Bob is the juror whose role was made famous in the original movie by Ed Begley (That's senior, not junior).

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