1951

Congratulations to Washington's Al Moses are in order. After an earlier three-year stint as U.S. ambassador to Romania, appointed by President Clinton, Al has been named by the president to be his special presidential emissary for Cyprus. His very difficult task is to facilitate negotiations between Greece and Turkey in their ages-old feud over control of that troubled island. Perhaps that's a little less tricky than trying to keep peace between Israel and the Arabs, but not by much. The position previously was held by the illustrious Richard Holbrooke, until he became U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

From Hudson, Ohio, Dick Bucey announces that he's finally retired-but only after four tries.

"I have really come to enjoy retirement parties. In 1993 I retired after 25 years as senior pastor of the United Church of Christ in Avon Lake, west of Cleveland. Norma and I moved to Hudson (a New England town transplanted to Ohio). But I was called to serve as interim minister of the United Church in Daytona Beach for a year...then called to Naples as interim pastor for another year. We returned to Ohio, but the pastor of Old Stone Church on Cleveland's Public Square suddenly resigned and I filled in there for 20 months, retiring again last December. Norma says, 'This is it...you're retired!' But only the good Lord knows."

Another of our '51 ministers, JerryStaton of Carmel, Ind., has found retirement with less interruption, but keeps his hand in by baptizing his grandchildren. He most recently did the honors for his fourth, Isabella LaPlante Staton in Slinger, Wis.: "She.was the first one who didn't scream her head off." Jerry's wife, Shirley, is in a wheelchair now, but they still are able to fully enjoy the summers at his longtime (39 years) family retreat on Burnside Lake in far northern Minnesota. And they now have just taken a house for the coming year in Sun City, Ariz., to see how they like it down there.

Jack Giegerich passes on the news that '51's poet laureate, Robert Pack, has retired after a distinguished career at Middlebury. Bob and Patty have moved to Montana and a handsome western-style retirement home built for them by a son who's in the log cabin business out there. Bob plans to do a bit of teaching at the University of Montana, and will still come back east in summer to teach at Middlebury's Breadloaf writing sessions.

50 Years Ago: Crosby Hall morphs from being a dorm, to become headquarters for the NROTC, and various college administrative offices. Debaters Russ Dilks and Jake Livingston defeat 14 other colleges in Tufts Invitational Debate Tournament. The D.O.C. opens a ski area with 1,600-foot rope tow at Moosilauke Ravine Camp. Wails are heard across New England as coeds find Vassar, Mt. Holyoke and Wellesley exam periods will conflict with Winter Carnival.

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Al Moses. after a three-year stint as U.S. ambassador to Romania, lias teen named special emissary for Cyprus. LOYE MILLER '51