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Fiscal '98 from all accounts was a boom year for Dartmouth. The College has supplied me with the names of those from the Great Class who participated, an impressive list considering our shrinking numbers. Fortunately class widows are picking up the slack. The list totals 182 names, of which 45 are spouses of late classmates. One of the latter is Jean Sewall (widow of Charlie). I'm indebted to my West Coast "stringer" Eleanor Smith for a fascinating account of how Jean is making out:

"Since Charlie's death (March 2, 1993) I have traveled to faraway places. I have white-water rafted through the Grand Canyon, about 280 miles; floated over the Serengeti Plain in a balloon; visited the Galapagos Islands on a trimaran; found the headwaters of the Amazon in Peru; cruised the Orinoco River; been to Alaska, the Canary Islands, Morocco, the Costa Rican rainforest, Scandinavia and Russia, Antarctica, Vienna, and Prague, and on a Danube River cruise." Jean added, "If my health holds out," she was preparing for a journey to the Northwest Passage. Wow!

My correspondence with Eleanor also contained an e-mail address for Ada and Len Bryant, whom I contacted and received the following response: "Len and I reluctantly refused daughter Jane's invitation to accompany her and her husband on a trip to Cambodia, Myanmar, and Bali. We are content not to take such a long flight. Daughter Laurie, who spent her junior year at Dartmouth as an exchange student from Smith, and her husband are in the U.S. Foreign Service, currently serving in Amman, Jordan. Laurie and Bill have studied Arabic and become quite fluent in the language. Len and I had a wonderful visit to Jordan and came home with great admiration for the country and its people."

Joanne and I are off for Arizona, which could mean no column in the June issue (due March 15).

Paul Cummings, 7 River Mead Road, Peterborough, NH 03458;