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Lacking much input of major news other than sad notices of departed classmates, let me take a cue from Bob Marr's accounts of his world wanderings, and write a bit of my recent trip to be great-grandpa at a gathering of four generations of male Keenes. As a surprise, my oldest son, Dr. Robert C. Keene, arranged for his younger son Christopher, from California, and his 6-year-old Cameron, to join us in Bozeman, Mont., at the ranch of my veterinary grandson Rob O. Keene. (Confased?) Another great-grandson, Jeffrey Knisley, just returned from Nepal, where he was born, completed the group. Fly casting for breakfast trout, young Cameron out-caught his elders and proved his skill or luck with a rod. Visiting the campus of Montana University and a fabulous nearby Museum of the Rockies filled many interesting: hours.

Back at the ranch, horses, cows, chickens, and a dog monitored our antics and witnessed our five-in-the-morning departure to catch our plane back to Boston. Our treeshrouded Etna seemed all closed in after the "Big Sky" openness of Gallatin Valley with its rim of distant snow-capped peaks. All in all, HOME is die best haven at our age, yet it's nice to have a change of scene.

Let us hope our remaining classmates can have a memorable change of scene by attending our 70th next June!

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