1936

Mario Guerrieri, missing from our 50th Reunion book, is "back in California after 18 I years in Florida and Virginia post-retirement from Lock heed Missiles & Space. My only contact with other '36s is A1 Langlois in Wausau, Wise., with a multi-faceted career in travel, advertising, real estate, reporting. He alerted me to the Elks National Home in Bedford, Va., where I lived the past year." Mario is now at 325 Burton Mesa Blvd., #215, Lompoc, CA 93436; (805) 733-5569.

In the February Tithe I quoted Thayer's advice that six '36s graduated in 1937, one John Bouker. He wrote, "I did not graduate from Thayer. I could not stand another school year on borrowed money. Jane and I are in the independent-living section of our retirement community in Naples, Fla., exchanging e-mail with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren."

Dean Nicholson wrote "with great sadness" of his frosh-year roommate GeneAustin. "Gene the next year went to Indiana University and graduated from its medical school as a pediatrician, for 30 years, then director of a hospital in Evansville until retiring in 1985." I phoned Nick for news of himself but never connected.

A1 and Jane Gibney report that after having to give up Panama Canal and New Zealand trips for illness and a flooded house from a broken washing machine, now we "are doing all the things we postponed." What one can take in stride in younger years becomes a chore at 80-plus.

If you watch The Jim Lehrer Newshour on PBS, you may have noticed that commentator Paul Gigot 77 of The Wall Street Journal mentions Dartmouth when there is a news peg.

U.S. News if World Report on February 28th wrote "The next hot toy story...will be product tie-ins with kiddie movies, like Universal's Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch StoleChristmas. Our wonderful Ted Geisel '25's continuing legacy. Read the biography Dr.Seuss & Mr. Geisel by Judith and Neil Morgan (Random House). I knew him as a skilled fellow-reporter.

In March San Francisco alumni hosted the Dartmouth Aires and the seminar "Choosing the Future: Morality and the New Genetics" with faculty dean Ed Berger and philosophy professor Bernard Gert.

Hanover sent word of the death of HarryMosher "Moe" Lowd of New Harbor, Maine. One of three sons, Harry III, is a '66. Harry I was a '12.

-Edwin Drechsel, 170 Hillcrest Road, Berkeley, CA 97470; (510) 655-9599