1944

You wanna know why I keep writing these Class Notes on a typewriter? You remember: Royal, Remington, Underwood, Smith Coronathose kind of Smithsonian artifacts. Well, in October, John Weeks had a fax correspondence with the editor of the Dartmouth Medicine magazine and he kindly sent me a copy. At the bottom of the page, under the heading "Headers," was the following—and I kid you not: "From Dartmouth.Medicine@dartvax,dartmouth.edu Mon Oct 2 10:51:41 1995

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What, pray tell, would our old English profs—Lambuth, Hurd, Jensen, Joyce, and Cox—say to all that?

So, on to the explicable. Not surprisingly, and well-deservedly, Joe Vancisin has racked up yet another honor with his induction in the Branford Sports Hall of Fame. And Monte DuVal has been named to head the retirement system for the state of Arizona.

Retired NASA scientist Dick Allenby and wife Julie celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last October, with all three kids (including Kent '74 and daughter in-law Carolyn '76) and grandchildren in attendance. Actually, Dick is about as retired as a herd of centipedes. Besides consulting on such things as the prediction of earthquakes, he and Julie travel, play golf, and water ski. "I had to give up ice hockey and downhill skiing several years ago," he says. "Knee problems."

Dr. Lan "Digger" Macdonald's wife, Deena, really put on a surprise 75th birthday party for Digger. He was a Navy Air Corps fighter pilot in the Pacific, so Deena rented Hanger 221 at the Orlando Executive Airport for the November 14 birthday bash, attended by more than 150 of the Macdonalds' friends and buddies.

When we called Gil Gabriel after the early January blizzard, he was having no shoveling problems whatsoever, ensconced as he and Terry were on the 27th floor of their New York City apartment. "Still working," he says, "and harder than ever," at his own Creative Services organization.

Dick and Joanie Whiting, both in their second marriages, have some 837 kids and grandchildren between them, so what to do, where to go, at Christmas? Easy: three weeks in Salzburg, Austria, where they were wined, dined, and shepherded around by old Austrian friends, including midnight masses in famed Salzburg churches (Ah, Mozart!) and side trips to Vienna and Munich.

Correction: In writing Rog Feldman's obituary, I said the Feldmans had established a Law Day in their son's memory at Georgetown University. Wrong; it was at the Cambridge School in Weston, Mass. Apologies.

Heard this on the radio and liked it: "He was a man who lived not so much on an income as on a lack of expense."

Sadly, Al Cook died in February. Our sympathy. That's it. Blessings.

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