1972

Mud Season, right? I always liked heading home to Bal'mer after winter term, leaving Dartmouth generally white and pristine, and returning 'midst the mush sluicing down Main Street, ready for the sounds and smells of spring. Felt like that when we tried to find a showshoeing trail near Mt. Baker, purportedly the snowiest ski resort in the U.S. (160-inch base in latejanuary) but full of rain in mid-season, a harbinger of Mud Season here in the Northwest.

News from the e-mail front: Don Fennessey, captain U.S.N, reports from Paris, where's he's the naval attache in the U.S. embassy, "Every day I pop out of the Metro at the Place de la Concorde I still can't believe I'm here and they are paying me too!" Later, "I guess it really hit home how different it was when we were at the farewell cocktail party for the Canadian naval attache and were discussing the economic woes of post-Soviet Bulgaria with the Bulgarian attache and his wife in French." Don still manages to keep in touch with NROTC officers ex-Capt. Hurst and ex-Cdr. James, both still living in Hanover, and ex-Major, now retired Major General Steele, back in California. He also pointed out that Lynn Rowe and his wife, Jeannie, still live in the house they bought in 1975 sure sounds a record to me!

And from good 01' snail mail comes Joe Davis's year-end wrap, including "three trips overseas on business: two short trips to Indonesia and a month-long trip to Venezuela." Now, is it only a coincidence that the Indonesian currency plummeted at the beginning of the year, or what exactly was Joe up to?? Busy times for Rondi and Joe on the homefront too, with Alice's fourth-grade class writing an opera(!), Jenny's (sixth grade) six years of soccer now applied to swimming and clarinet, and Rondi doing "costumes at SMU [Dallas], several commercials, and a big industrial show."

Thanks to Paul Tyson for the reunion pix, and all-too-true comment that "life has a way of getting away from me at timesmaybe buying that house in the spring is the key cause. I know the folks at Home Depot on a first-name basis." Guess Lynn Rowe wouldn't know that problem! Love Paul's return address citing "Defense Pentagon" and the 007-like "OSD/ISA/FMRA."

Belated and heartiest congratulations to Jon Einsidler and Karen on the birth of triplets Nina, Teddy, and Scott on November 23, 1997 wow, Jon, welcome to fatherhood...and years of fun, three times over!

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