1949

It was briefly noted in last month's issue that the class lost its greatest football player when Joe Sullivan succumbed to an aneurysm on December 29. According to Al Quirk, with whom he had stayed in close touch, Joe suffered a slight stroke earlier in December but seemed to be on the mend. Undoubtedly a B.M.O.C., back when that term had a certain resonance, Joe was nevertheless modest about his achievementsand a friend to all. Our sympathies to Nina, Joe'78, Gail, and Jill.

Sadly, a few days after we talked with Al, Pat Quirk, his wife of almost 40 years, succumbed to emphysema. At a moving memorial service at Hanover's White Church, Al and Pat's daughters—Louise and Judi—and Ed Leede were among those who read selections from the Bible. Sympathies to Al and the family. Sympathies, too, to GeorgeOliver's family. We recently learned that George, a Beta and Sphinx like Joe Sullivan, died last November.

If it has slipped your mind (such things are known to happen), our 50th Reunion is only three years hence. So it's not a moment too soon to start the ball rolling and begin the fact-gathering that will lead to the best of all possible reunions. Consequently, a forthcoming edition of Skip Ungar's newsletter will include a questionnaire that will pry into your private life so we can produce a 50th yearbook unlikely to be topped during this millennium. The form will not ask if you want lobster or steak at the Bema cookout—that comes later. It will ask about your Dartmouth activities, your life since College, your thoughts about the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, etc. Please fill it out, or get your wife-correspondent to fill it out, and return it as directed. There will, of course, be a chance for updates as we get closer to 1999. But help us get off to a running start—we deserve a world-class book, not a four-page handout Xeroxed at the last minute. Your classmates are curious about what you have been doing, what you're doing now, and what you plan to do in the next century.

Bill Chapman understands this curiosity and dropped me a note about his family. You may recall Bill and Juanita's three sons all attended Dartmouth and were varsity swimmers. Bill III 83, a Phi Bete, was recently appointed assistant professor of advanced laparoscopic surgery at Eastern Carolina University School of Medicine. He'll be teaching splenectomies, bowel resections, difficult hernias, and such—and consulting at Duke. Meantime, his twin brothers, Jim and Tim, who were '84s and Tuck '85s, are on the tycoon track. One is a principal at a small private bank in New York, the other a partner with McKinsey in Cleveland—l can't tell which is which, although I understand the Chapmans can. Mom and Pop still live in Stamford, Conn. What are you doing on your summer vacation? Playing golf? Bungee jumping? Crying over the Sox? Dancing with wolves? Surely there's some short-term news while we await the long-term questionnaire.

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