1944

It didn't help our phone bill much, but it sure was fun last talking to some of the troops who don't often appear in this space. TomCrowder in Newton Center, Mass., for example. Tom reminded me that he thinks he outsted John Rexford a few years ago as the classmate with the youngest child (Tom has a daughter, now five, along with a son, 11), but we'd best check the Guinness Book of Records to see where Don Campbell comes in. In the 50th Reunion book (1994), he lists a two-year- old daughter.

Tom, it seems, has never stopped going to school. Dartmouth and then during the war Air Force courses at Minnesota, Yale, Harvard, MIT, and the University of Chicago. After the war, a year at Harvard Medical School, the Longy School of Music, Harvard again for an M.A. in music, and subsequent periods taking math courses at Northeastern, Boston U., and Brandeis. He retired in 1993 after 35 years with General Electric Telephone and Electronics, and since then he has studied physics at Boston College and math at Boston U. And just to keep his hand in, he's currently studying Arabic. In addition to transporting his kids to and from school and various lessons, Tom says he reads a lot.

Marshall "Mark" Clark is a retired advertising executive and he and his wife, Val, divide their time between a home in Greenwich and a condo in East Hampton, L.I. "The condo goes mostly with the nearby beaches and the kids and grandkids in the summers," says Mark, who spends most of his spare time on the board of trustees of his Greenwich church and the Greenwich Hospital.

We couldn't raise Wendell "Wen"Clark down in Tequesta, Fla., before press time, so we'll have to save him for the next go-around. Our other two Clarks, Aveand Jim, are both deceased, Ave in 1990, Jim in 1995.

The incomparable Bob "Twitch"Miller died July 27 after a long year's fight against cancer. As a 16-year-old, he also lost a Golden Gloves fight against Sugar Ray Robinson, but he never lost much else. He championed Dartmouth and '44 in countless ways and served for decades, successively, as class president, secretary, and newsletter editor. He was an artist, a scribe, a raconteur, a very successful businessman, and one of the loveliest and funniest men ever to go our way. In the 57 years I knew him, I never heard a single unkind word about Twitch, and that pretty much says it all. We will miss him beyond any saying. Ten days before he died, in a last hurrah, he brought bittersweet joy and laughter to a bunch of us when he visited John Eaton on Martha's Vineyard, Dickand Proc Ostberg in Ipswich, and Pinkyand Ro Corroon, Bill and Liz Craig, and the Hiers in Hanover. Contributions in his memory should be sent to: Class of 1944 Room in Berry Library, c/o Melanie Norten, 63 S. Main St., Hanover, NH 03755.

That's it. Blessings.

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Bob "Twitch" Miller lost a Golden (Gloves fight against Sugar Ray Robinson—but he never lost much else. FRITZ HIER '44