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A beautiful Christmas card featured a smiling Kay and Stace Hill celebrating his 80th birthday and their 46th anniversary. The photo was taken during a 30-day cruise to Australia and New Zealand in early 1998. The "80-46" celebration was repeated later in September when the whole Hill clan convened at their Oregon home base. Later still the Hills spent Thanksgiving with family members in California and then went to Golden, Colo., for Christmas with more family folks. More power to the happy Hills!

Another traveler is Unc Richardson, who officially resigned in November from Eaton-Vance Management Corp. to assume the less active role of consultant. He and Laura Allis are leaving snowbound Massachusetts for sunny Tequesta, Fla., for the winter months. Unc still has some private trustee work which will require his occasional return to Boston.

Dr. Frank Watters on the other hand is happy to stay close to home in Newington, Conn. Frank has retired after a long association with the VA Medical Center and the University of Connecticut where he was an assistant professor. He still devotes several days each week to former cases he covered in his specialty of internal medicine. The rest of the time he works on his golf game now that his ailing leg prevents him from skiing on his favorite trails in Vermont.

Talked on the Ameche to Alex Salm, who was snow and ice bound in Tuxedo, N.Y. The weather didn't bother the veteran skier but recovering from the flu was a bummer. Alex recounted his war years in the Air Corps (before Pearl Harbor) and when he later instructed in B-29s. Afterward he flew for American Airlines and a cargo air transport outfit, then worked for Hilton Engineering analyzing the modernization needs of their hotels. After successful ventures in real estate Alex is now enjoying some sailing and visits to his summer place in Nova Scotia. On the Dartmouth front he hopes the new president will shape things up.

Similar hopes are held in Indialantic, Fla., by Bill Aylward who is still smarting from his earlier battles with the administration and their admissions policy. Bill's grandson in Oregon was not accepted at Dartmouth despite a truly outstanding record in high school. The young man has just graduated from Tufts in June '98 as a Phi Bete and was the winner of a special award for higher education potential. He placed in the 97th percentile in both LawSATs and Graduate Record Exams and was offered a full scholarship in the Minnesota law schools. So Bill feels vindicated in his pre-college support of his grandson. But who said life was fair, Bill? We all know you do the best you can with the hand you're dealt. See our class photo on page 78. Cheers to all!

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Winter Carnival Queen's Court (No. 3 was queen); the celebration was dedicated "To All the Girls We've Loved Before."