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A story in the Palm Beach Post recounted 1999 community service awards to exemplary volunteers: "One hero drives 62 miles round-trip to tutor Indiantown's migrant students, another gives away his own clothes to poor children in Pahokee. A third teaches teens that dancing and drumming are better for them than drugs and crime." That these and three others received welldeserved recognition and fellowship awards of $5,000 from the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin counties is of particular interest to us, for the annual awards program is named for Dwight Allison, in recognition of his own prodigious community service going back over many years. While living and working in the Boston area, Dwight became active in various civic affairs and eventually served simultaneously as chair of the Boston Community Foundation and die national Council on Foundations, while also becoming associated with Palm Beach area foundation during winter stays in Florida. After he semi-retired in 1982 and he and Lyona moved permanently to South Florida, he became board chair of tie foundation there, and the annual fellow-ship award program was conceived and begun (in 1992) during his tenure. When he stepped down, the group honored him by naming it the Dwight Allison Fellow awards. This brings renewed gratification each year. When a new crop of fellows is announced, "I know I am in the presence of virtue," Dwight told the Palm Beach Post. These days he and Lyona spend seven months of the year at their home in Boynton Beach, and five summer months at their place in Melvin Village on Lake Winnipesaukee. He still holds directorships in Mellon Bank and Avery Dennison Manufacturing Cos.

Yep, that happy face many of us noticed on the Party People page of the Sunday New York Times was indeed Mike lovenko, looking hardly a day older than when he edited the Dartmouth Quarterly 50 years ago. The picture was taken at the Bastille Day celebration in the French consulate in Manhattan, for Mike these days is '51's French connection, serving as president of the French-American Foundation, which seeks better Franco-American relations. "The organization was formed about 30 years ago when relations were in a particularly bad patch, and I became interested through a friend who was in it," Mike explained by telephone. Heading up the group requires considerable "juggling," since he's still actively practicing law in New York, but retirement isn't on his horizon at present he said. "I'm still practicing because I really enjoy it. Not that I lack for anything else to do, but I really do still enjoy it."

When Howard Read died in Hanover a year ago, he left the wish that his ashes be scattered atop Mt. Moosilauke. This was done last June 18 on a pilgrimage by Peggy, Howard's children, her children, and classmates Dave O'Neill, Charlie Russell, Hank Sanders, and Paul Meyer. "The old guys made it up the mountain and back down, although it took a lot longer than it did on our Freshman Trip those 50-plus years ago," Paul reported by e-mail.

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Co-conspirator Ed Lathem '51, p. 38