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Forgive us our trespasses as we are about to steal Bill Mathers's style of writing this column, rather than adhere to the DAM style booklet's (DAM means Dartmouth Alumni Magazine) recommendations, which we found bewildering and not as brief as the cover of the booklet stated. If DAM finds this offering sacrilegious and rejects it, or fires us, so be it!

The current slate of officers elected at our 60th Reunion is: George (Yank) Price, president; Richard W. Hube, vice president; Allan Sherwood, treasurer; Robert McLellan and Putnam Kingsbury, assistant treasurers; David Buxbaum, secretary.

We were fortunate to be in Hanover early this summer and caught a live performance by Lowie Haas' son Fred, who is well known as one of the finest saxophonists in the country, having played with several "big bands" as well as small groups. You may remember Fred from our 35th Reunion, where he provided music for our tent, and from the lecture he gave at one of our mini-reunions.

A clipping from the May 5 Chronicle of Higher Education of a letter from Peter Smith, our adopted class member, now dean of the arts at Columbia University, quotes him as being "sorry not to see any mention of Dartmouth College in the March 10 issue of Fade for Film Societies.'"

Dero Saunders reports that we set new records at our 60th Reunion, with 81 classmates in attendance, about 180 people in all, and more than $215,000 for the Alumni Fund against a goal of $175,000. He also reports that Bill Mathers's annual picnic was held at his home at Gordon Farm in Sutton, Vt., and was attended by about 30 people, who were most enthusiastic about their gracious host, Bill, and his wife Myra. Many of the guests were from the Hanover area, and Paul van Antwerpen and his wife Margarete were up from Sarasota, Fla.

If this column contains too few names for your liking, you can remedy this by sending in cards to Dero or me.

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