1951

Now comes good news from mini-reunion chair Hank Nachman. Last fall our Homecoming weekend seminar was a stimulating, profound, and funny presentation on Dr. Seuss by English profs Bill Cook and Don Pease. Most of us who were there agreed that it set a very high standard for such programs. So it's good to hear that Hank has secured the same dynamic Cook-Pease duo to give a seminar on Robert Frost at our gathering in Hanover on the Yale game weekend, October 18-19. Don't miss it!

Another high note: We can really take pride in the '5l contribution to the Alumni Fund this year. Thanks to a super effort by head agent Al Mori (now our class president) and reunion giving whip PeteBogardus, we raised a record class gift of $312,000—over $50,000 more than ever before. Outgoing Class President JoeWelch was able to present a huge blownup

check for $300,000 to Dartmouth President Jim Freedman at our 45th Reunion banquet on June 12, and the rest trickled in later. Thanks, too, to Al's sturdy corps of assistant class agents. Great job, guys!

After 17 years of operating that neat Inn at Weathersfield (Vt.), Ron and MaryLouise Thorburn have moved closer to Hanover. They've bought the federal-style brick Sumner Mansion in Hartland, Vt., a national historic landmark built in 1807. They offer housing for groups up to 16, and catered meals for larger gatherings (wedding receptions, family reunions, etc.). Good luck with it.

Fred Ranney, our longtime agent in the heart of the enemy—he lives in Princeton—reports he is marketing his own line of salsas and black bean sauce, and playing a lot more golf these days—"I wonder if I can get my golf handicap down to match my age?"

How many people can look forward to a career with just one company any more? Dick Terry has just retired after spending his whole professional life happily and fruitfully with Polaroid, in Cambridge, Mass. He's still doing some consulting to keep his hand in.

I, Loye Miller, am also very happily retired, after 30 years in journalism, and stints in public affairs for the U.S. Department of Education, the Department of Justice, and the Northrop Corp. To all those people who ask with great concern, "Well, what are you going to do?," I reply, "Do I have to do anything?" Hey, I play a lot of tennis, chase the trout with a fly rod, and try to keep on skiing.

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Stray by Bob Pack '51, p. 30