1928

Remember when we thought that people in their 90s were old? In the days when I had to make a daily decision on where to part my hair I probably thought of them as ancients if I thought of them at all. So, here we are, as a class, in our 90s. Anyone younger, please stand up if you can.

It is not surprising, in calling around, to find most of us on the inactive list. Some, however, are surprisingly active, and all seem to have active interests.

Ed Flanders, for instance, qualifies as at least semiactive. He still tends the garden and fruit trees on the land where his father started an orchard in 1902. He also still picks the soloist for services in the Union Church, the oldest in South Ware.

Jack Zellers reports his principal activity is fooling around with a new word processor and thinking up words to process. He says his grandson, who works for IBM in the Far East, was in Hong Kong during the takeover. Irv Engleman no longer pursues his acting career, which dates from his retirement in 1976, because he no longer can drive at night. He reports that a grandson has just finished his freshman year at Dartmouth, carrying on a family tradition. He has more relatives and ancestors who attended Dartmouth than anyone I ever heard of. So it goes. Having reached the age of limited activity we at least can carry on through our descendants. Jerry Sass wanted me to let you know that the Class Officers Weekend has been changed to September 11 and 12, 1998. Other dates listed in the last notes for calendar marking remain the same. Fortunately, no obituaries to write this month.

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Ed Flanders continues to pick fruit from theorchard his fatherplanted in 1902.GEORGE A. BELL '28