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Rod Morgan "had a great Bones Gate dinner in New York just before Thanksgiving with John Eaton, Jeff McElnea, Larry Brown '68, Fred Becker '69 and assorted wives who still put up with us. The Eatons were in town to see their son who is a freshman (or is it the now PC 'first year'?) at NYU, as is Jeff McElnea's son. The Eatons stayed with Pam and me in our one-bedroom N.Y. apartment for three nights, just like the old days. It got a little crowded that last night when their twins arrived! Fortunately Pam and I still escape to our West Hartford house most weekends." Rod also wrote in response to my confusion about his new e-mail address: "Welcome to my merger! My business moved from Citibank to SalomonSmithBarney and we physically moved from mid-town to Tribeca. So now as we sit hard by the scenic Holland Tunnel, we're trying to figure out how to swim in this shark tank."

David Aylward's "grandchild No. 4 has arrived. James David Caton was born October 15 in San Marcos, Texas. Proud and very happy grandfather and grandmother were in attendance. It is a healthy thing when telecommunications magazines get replaced in my reading priority with Grandparenting for Idiots."

Roger Prince reported in last fall that he was camped out "with wife and daughter in our apartment in downtown Bangkok slowly getting settled. We now have a car and driver and are working on a maid. My daughter started year two (first grade) at the British Bangkok Patana School two weeks ago. She seems to be thriving there. I am in the midst of coordinating a move of the existing information technology [IT] operations from one office building to another, consolidating four offices into one." Roger is information technology manager-Bangkok for Chevron Offshore (Thailand) Ltd.

Barry Brink wrote last fall: "I sometimes read in personal horror the reports of our classmates who have experienced recent additions to their families. My kids are both literally out of the house now, mainly launched, but honor us with regular phone calls of their life trials and tribulations. On this Thanksgiving, I find them both upstairs in their respective bedrooms of a house they have never really resided in but we carefully established so that they could think of our relocation to the ridgelines of central Pennsylvania as their home. In years past my family allowed me to go back to California to spend Thanksgiving with my father and brothers...but today, I am home with mine. As I write these words, I feel the turning of a generation...I become the 'father' of my own circle. And it feels good. So, let me say a warm hello to all of my classmates: I continue to think of you and Dartmouth often, and am already looking forward to our next reunion in 2001."

"While teaching high school history for the past 27 years, and coaching on the side, has not left me with grand tales to tell," writes Rick Carleton, "I do have some great news on a personal level. My son Fred will matriculate next fall into the class of 2004. He represented the last chance to continue the line started by my father, Frank '32, and continued by my brothers Bill '56, Tu'57 and Frank Jr. '57. I have read the stories of classmates' children having mixed success with admissions, so I am quite elated. I also know the College made the right decision with my son. The best part is Joan and I will be able to make some of those mini-reunions at football games."

I'm sorry to say that Robin Armstrong, who spoke to us in last month's column about his battle with cancer and his hope for the "longshot," died in February. There will be more information in a future column and obituary.

Peace.

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