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Talk about random notes from all over! The very first response to our call for a list of class members' e-mail addresses came all the way from the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, off the northwestern (Moroccan) coast of Africa, where Pete Fleming has lived since he retired seven years ago. But Pete () reports only that he is selling his house on Gran Canaria and plans to move back to San Francisco, where he had practiced medicine with Kaiser-Permanente for 20 years. Welcome home.

Our childrens' weddings are always special, and the circumstances are particularly exotic for the Dec. 3 nuptials set for Pete Henderson's son, John, and Jip's Chitnarong. They'll be married in a Buddhist ceremony (the monks set the date by consulting the stars) in Jip's hometown, the remote coconut farming village of Bhan Krut about a six-hour bus ride south of Bangkok in Thailand. About 20 of John's family and pals, including several Dartmouth friends, will make the trek. Pete and Jean will spend two weeks in Indonesia on the way out. John met Jip while working for three years in a Thai refugee camp on the Cambodian border. They'll live in Seattle.

Understand that back in August the Chicago Cubs hurriedly beefed up security when they learned the '5l Chicago mafia (Herb Knight, Jim Bovaird, Dave Hilton, and the aforementioned Pete Henderson) were making their annual pilgrimage to a game at Wrigley Field. Too bad the team didn't shore up the pitching staff as well, for the game against the Marlins. "We saw starters, set-up men, and closers" but no victory, reports Pete. Bovaird mourned for the good old days and the likes of the Phillies "they gave the ball to Robin Roberts every four days, and he gave them nine innings."

About five years ago Hap and Joan Person fell in love with the desert environs of Tucson and started going out from Plymouth, Mass., to winter in Arizona. They've got a townhouse on a ridge with a terrific view. But it can rain even in paradise, and they had to make an emergency run out there in September after an unprecedented downpour flooded the place. Not to worry, though. They got things cleaned up in time to make their planned fall vacation in Spain and southwestern France.

Hap lives just up the street from Aram and Nancy Chorebanian. He says Aram is a whirling dervish on the Tucson real estate scene and "makes a damn good margarita." The Persons have also exchanged visits with Charlie and Sarah Breed, who have moved permanently from St. Louis to the desert outside Phoenix.

Last spring Schuyler "Tom" Tompson wrote from Albuquerque with regrets that he was too ill to make the 45th Reunion. Sadly, he died June 10, the very day we were gathering in Hanover. Obituary to follow.

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