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First, here are details of the Dartmouth Night weekend mini-reunion. It's October 18-20; the football opponent is Yale; the pre-game picnic is at the Fayerweathers, the dorm cluster that we sponsor; the post-game cocktail reception will be in the Oberlander Lounge; dinner again will be at ITAS'CA in White River Junction. Call mini-reunion chair Art Johnson (860) 274-4502 with questions.

Art has reserved a block of rooms at the Airport Economy Inn ($95 per night); the cutoff date for reservations is September 18. We'll march Friday in the Dartmouth Night parade and participate in the rally; the rest of Friday night is impromptu reunions. And we'll be having our regular mini-reunion weekend class meeting Saturday morning before the picnic.

Second, I wanted to mention our Mini- Reunion 1996 Special Recognition Award, which was announced at Class Officers Weekend, to Oscar Arslanian, ArtJohnson, Ivar Jozus, Art Kelton, KenKolb, and David Prewitt, for our class "tradition" of major out-of-Hanover reunions: Washington for our 50th, Dartmouth Goes Hollywood, the Big Green Meets the Big Easy (New Orleans). The next one is Chicago.

No one was there to pick up the award because all of your class officers were at a Thayer Hall table putting the finishing touches on what turned out to be a glorious 35th Reunion. Special thanks to RogerMcArt, the chair; Art Johnson, assistant chair; Ivar Jozus, reunion treasurer (while maintaining his regular duties as class treasurer); Vic Rich, publicity chair; and all the other guys who handled a piece of the Reunion. And of course, there was the yeoman work done by Mike Murphy in commissioning the statue of Robert Frost, tilting lances with the College bureaucracy, and arranging delivery to Hanover. Mike agreed to continue as class projects chair—at least until the site of the statue is established.

It was an emotion-laden Reunion, more emotional than any I remember. When I teared up, I thought maybe it was just me, but I checked with the other guys, and the experience was much more universal. We had singing every day—from the Glee Club of our day to the Concertato Singers singing Frost-related songs on Friday night, to the Dartmouth Aires serenading us at dinner on Saturday night. But the tears really flowed at the memorial service on Sunday morning while singing "Dartmouth Undying" at its proper cadence, which is almost funereal, and the unspoken realization that at our age, some of those present wouldn't be back for the 40th.

News Notes: P. John Seward has become executive vice president of the American Medical Association, the highest staff position. Seward, a family physician in Rockford, III., had served as chair of the AMA's board of trustees, stepping down when he was chosen executive vice president. John also was Winnebago County coroner for 23 years.

John Zabriskie, CEO of the newly merged Pharmacia & Upjohn, helped to plant 4,000 trees at a camp for critically ill children in Winter Park, Fla., according to the Wall Street Journal. "This is another way to show that we care about our patients." I got a note from John recently, sending along his new London address.

A whole folder of news will have to wait for next month.

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