1945

Relaxed, rural retirement, New-Hampshire style, has been my mode for a decade. So I am surprised from time to time to hear about how many of us are still professionally active or Just celebrating retirement.

The Hartford Courant did an expansive feature article on Dr. Lan MacKinnon's conclusion of 41 years of service in internal medicine. The paper commended him especially for still making house calls and quoted many patients on his responsiveness and focused personal caring.

Scott Parrot, having left the Wall Street Journal behind, has found a new adventure in Florida. He has completed six skydives from 13,500 feet with 6,000-foot accelerated free falls. He downplays his flying, fishing, and golf, but is excited about being a great-grandfather.

Scotty sends updates on his two Vero Beach lunch buddies: Ed Kohn is still earning a week's pay in Palm City (family fuel business, says the 50th Book), only to stay active and to pay for the new paint job on his flying machine—a Bonanza. WillMartin is at John's Island in Vero, plays golf, and reports that his oil business is better now that prices have firmed un

lad Fraissinet proclaims from St. Augustine his marriage last year to Marily McGuire, "a wonderful gal' whom I have known for 46 years." Many happy years ahead, Tad and Marily. Tad is still working parttime too.

A belated "Welcome Back to New Hampshire" to Win Sargeant. Win, a Manchester native, moved to The Landings near Savannah in 1985. Since the death of Ann in 1995, on which we send condolences, Win has come back near his son and daughter (1465 Hooksett Road, #379, Hooksett, NH 03106). Win, do come up and join the Upper Valley monthly lunch bunch.

It appears to me that Dartmouth '45s must spend as much time abroad as Dartmouth undergraduates, and maybe have more fun too.

Frank and Jeanne Hutchins and Johnand Barbara McCauley enjoyed traveling together in northern England last fall. Tracy and Maxine Mitchell spent 18 days in England and Scotland, following George Barr's lead and using a timeshare trade. Trace regrets that they waited so long, so much did they enjoy the country, the people, and the food. They made a quick trip to Paris as well. Chan Stein toured Norway starting from Bergen, motoring through fjord country, then boating his way north close to Murmansk. "Wonderful!!" says Chan.

Parker Coddington, now retired from Harvard (administration, I believe), most recently traveled with Jane to Costa Rica. He extols its literacy, its rural community life, its freedom from traffic pressures. Kind of like his hometown of Sudbury, Mass., used to be.

Jim Knowles walked into a pub in Killarney, County Cork. A friendly native group drew him a "jar" of stout and said the price you pay is to stand and sing a song. Quick-thinking Jim launched into "Men of Dartmouth" amid much cheering. He was worried that the line "they have the still North in their hearts" would be taken adversely as pro-Northern Ireland and land him in the street. It seems to me directly appropriate; the Irish do indeed have the North in their hearts. And for a rousing moment the Dartmouth green merged with the Irish green in a jolly pub scene.

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