1932

Wedding bells were chiming melodiously December 29 in Eaton Center, N.H., for the marriage of AlexanderMcKenzie and HildaTerry. We congratulate the couple and wish them bundles of joy and happiness. And while speaking of nuptials, your secretary is happy to announce that his bachelor son Bill '66, whom many of you have met at our minis, will marry Paula Barber of Denver in April. We talked with Bob Dickey at Maria Joseph Manor, Danville, PA, 17821, (717) 275-9684. He's had a rough time for the past two years, surviving two surgeries for peritonitis, along with polymyalgia rheumatica. He is able to get out of bed parttime, but needs a walker. An old Med School roommate, he is still very sharp, and when we told him that we were not interested in doing extra work he said, "I'm not surprised, you never were."

We also talked with John Swenson, who is being treated for a nodule in his lung. His new address is: 501 S. Posada Circle, Apt. 354, Green Valley, AZ 85614, (520) 648-8345. He is upbeat about his health problem and convinced that he will be around when his Dartmouth grandson, a captain of cross-country skiing, makes the Winter Olympic team.

Probably the busiest of our class is Ed Marks. He has three main retirement programs: 1) A book he has been working on for years titled A World of Art TheCollection of the United Nations is about to be published in Rome. It will have about 150 illustrations, mostly in color, of the paintings, sculptures, mosaics, tapestries, ceramics, and other works of art at UN headquarters and offices around the world. 2) He continues as chairman of the Immigration and Refugee Services of America. 3) In 1994 he got a grant from the National Foundation of the Arts to produce a series of radio programs on American comic and novelty songs, each with a different theme: food, drink, money, jobs, love, politics, and family. Four of them have been broadcast on a small Massachusetts station. It would seem Ed fits into the new classification of society called OPALs (older people with active lifestyles), the acronym for the 65-plus set. Again we are saddened. Abraham"Babe" Weinberg has died. An obituary will be in a later issue of this magazine.

Joe Roberts, 12958 Blue Sky Drive, Sun City West, AZ 85375