1945

You all know that the woods around Hanover are full of Dartmouth alumni. More members of the classes of the '30s and 40s are finding comfort and security in the life-care communities hereabouts. They offer ready health services and a wide array of craft, athletic, social, and cultural activities that have proved to keep residents lively longer.

Craig and Jocelyn Cain have come from Evanston, I11., to Kendal at Hanover and are "loving every minute" of their new life. Kendal is the home of Fred andLaura Berthold. This fall Fred, professor emeritus of religion, is director of the Dartmouth College religion department foreign study program at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, with 14 Dartmouth students there. He is conducting a seminar on Martin Luther, while Edinburgh faculty provide two additional courses for them.

River Woods at Exeter, N.H., another life-care community, opened last year. Nick and Mary Sandoe are the '45 pioneers there. He is putting his computer skills to work for family and community and enjoys daily swims in the beautiful pool. Ted and Pat Smith will soon be moving from Reading, Mass., to join the Sandoes.

Two more similar communities are being built in N.H.—Harvest Hill in Lebanon and River Mead in Peterborough. Don't overlook these options for a comfortable lifestyle. You too can return your special muscles and brains to the Granite State.

On to Vermont. Bob and Glad Aldom have just adopted a different style in a different state. They've just completed an elegant, expansive new hilltop home in North Hartland with a spectacular view of (you guessed it) New Hampshire. Bob and Glad hosted the perfect sunset foliage party for more than 60 of us to kick off the fall mini weekend.

Bob Pease reports a delightful visit with his fun-and-fundraising buddy Bob Fisher and wife Greta in New Suffolk, L.L, where Bob has summered, sailed, and fished all his life. Reddo and Marty Williams were there too. (Reddo has one of the wittier pieces in the 50th Reunion book; take a look.)

And, speaking of place loyalty, from Harry Hampton comes the lead article from the Connecticut section of the Sunday New York Times. Accompanied by a picture of a very relaxed vacationing couple, Henry and Lorraine Blansfield, is Hank's homage to Block Island (R.I.). I can do no better than to quote Hank directly, as did the Times: "I love this place. My Mom and Dad brought me here when I was five years old in 1929 and I've passed on a love for it. My kids come back, from New York, California, Connecticut, with their families in the summer. We've got herons nesting in the pond in our front yard and beach roses and privet and bayberry, and the twitter of birds. This is part of my being, my essence." The Times reporter adds "...a journey into the lyrical from a man who normally is more pragmatic than poetic...back home in Danbury a semi-retired surgeon and an advocate for people with addictions."

So there are lots of places to live and love. I'm one who feels that Dartmouth has enhanced our enjoyment wherever we have rooted ourselves.

Thought for the month: "In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips."my next-door neighbor, quoting Gourmet.

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