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Our request for information on retirement dates has brought some response. BobSearles called to report his date as 1974. He had been doing fundraising for private schools and colleges following a period in the 1950s when he was in PR for the GE Cos. A card from AlexHooker in Ripon, Wis., said he retired "as prof, of romance languages at Ripon College, in 1983 and now spends six months a year in Venice, Fla.

My own examination of our 50th Reunion roster shows that there were still some of you working, mostly those with their own businesses, legal offices or medical practices. But the one who retired earliest was HazenHinman, who had been V.P. of operations for the Rome Strip Steel Co. until 1967. Isabelle and Hazen now live in Switzerland. There was a whole bunch of you who stepped aside in the 1970s, and we'll get to list those in our next report.

Also heard from Rusty Hartranft about his birthday, in my effort to find the youngest and oldest members of the class: "You have a paragraph on the youngest members of our class. My birthday was May 9, 1921. Also, I believe Dutch Schaefer is near me, but you'll have to check with him." According to the roster, Dutch was born July 20, 1920. Nelson Craw also writes about "...a controversy going on about class members' birthdays. I do not want to cloud or complicate the issue but my birthday was February 7, 1921; still is for that matter, each year. Hope this finds you well, chipper and still able to take notice of things in general."

Leo Caproni reports talking on the phone to Baxter Lanius while in Denver this fall, and that he and his family are doing well and enjoying life in Colorado. Just received a photo of Luis Zalamea, president of the Florida chapter of the American Translators Association, standing with professor emerita of the University of Missouri and one of America's most distinguished literary translators, Margaret Sayers Peden, at a three-day symposium he organized last fall in Miami on literary translation.

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