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"Fifty-eight out!" The 100th anniversary of Dartmouth Night is just a few weeks away. Circle your I calendars for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 20-22. Joe Jacquet has once again lined up a great weekend for our mini-reunion and wants to see a great turnout for this historic occasion. If you have not done so already, make your reservations for the class dinner and get your order in for tickets in the class section for the Dartmouth-Colgate football game.

Quietly over the years, Nick Wagner has been collecting what the curator of the Oriental Collections of the Royal Armories, H.M. Tower of London, calls "a corpus of Islamic arms that rivals the holdings of many special museums." Nick's collection was featured in a recent exhibit at the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Mass., tided "Arms of the East: Jeweled Weapons of Status and Rank." The exhibited included 50 of his best jeweled weapons of the 18 th and 19 th centuries from the Near East, India, and Persia. He first became interested in antique weapons at the age of 12 and began collecting as a sideline to his career in the insurance business; When not collecting, Nick has kept up his love of volleyball, which he began to play during his undergraduate days behind his fraternity house. Presently he is playing in the National Golden Masters Tournament with a team of players who are 60 years old and up. Hope you have a good supply of liniment, Nick.

Down the road a piece from Hanover you'll find Bruce Carlson at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., where he has been recently named professor and curriculum chair of electrical, computer, and systems engineering. Bruce wrote, "As curriculum chair I enjoy the challenges of developing courses, exploring teaching methods, and designing curricula—while my boss, the department head, has to worry about financial matters, etc." He goes on to say that more than 250,000 copies of three textbooks he has written have now been sold. In 1994 he was honored to be named a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. I do wish that I lived a bit closer to Troy - I could use a lot of help with the databases and spread-sheets that I am trying to create.

Be on the lookout for Fred Bagnall After almost 20 years working in Southeast Asia, Fred and his wife, Carol, have returned to the United States. Hope to see you, Fred, at the Dartmouth Night mini-reunion this October 20-22. After the warm climes of the Far East, you can look forward to the first touch in 20 years of a New England winter. "Who can forget her sharp and misty mornings?" I have now joined the Internet world, so send some information about yourself to .

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